2006 Mythopoeic Finalists

Discover the 2006 Mythopoeic Award finalists—celebrating the year's best fantasy and myth-inspired literature. Explore top contenders in mythopoeic fiction and scholarship.

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The Penelopiad

by Margaret Atwood

A look at the Odyssey from Penelope's point of view.
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The Hallowed Hunt

by Lois McMaster Bujold

A magnificent epic tale of devotion, possession, obsession, and strange destiny from the author of the Hugo Award-winning Paladin of Souls Lois McMaster Bujold The …
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Anansi Boys

by Neil Gaiman

Fat Charlie Nancy's normal life ended the moment his father dropped dead on a Florida karaoke stage. Charlie didn't know his dad was a god. …
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Metallic Love

by Tanith Lee

Reading her clandestine copy of Jane's Story over and over again as an orphan growing up in the slums, Loren believes that she is too …
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Valiant

by Holly Black

When seventeen-year-old Valerie Russell runs away to New York City, she's trying to escape a life that has utterly betrayed her. Sporting a new identity, …
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Bartimaeus: Amulet of Samarkand, The (Book One)

by Jonathan Stroud

Nathaniel is a magician's apprentice, taking his first lessons in the arts of magic. But when a devious hot-shot wizard named Simon Lovelace ruthlessly humiliates …
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