Achten Tan: Land of Dust and Bone (Tales from the Year Between)

At the crossroads between Mieville's New Crobuzon and M.T. Anderson's Viriconium, on the border of Dhalgrin and D&D, just to the left of Terry Pratchett's Discworld and Mad Max's Fury Road ? lies Achten TanTales from the Year Between is a biannual anthology that brings together some of the most talented writers from around the globe to invent an original world from scratch, then explorethat world through their writing. After a week of intensive world-building, each author sets out to expand their new, fabulous universe through short-stories, flash fiction, poems, songs, and whatever other genres their boundless imaginations unleash ...In this inaugural volume, the world in question is Achten Tan, an at times brutal and at times humorous city located at the foot of the Godtree on the southern edge of the Bonewastes.Home to giant ants, mysterious mirror fragments, and the world's greatest barbecue rib joint, Achten Tan is bursting with stories of fantasy and wonder. One part Italo Calvino, one partFrank Herbert, with just a dash of George R.R. Martin and Frank L. Baum.