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Originally Posted by curtw
The Dragon Griaule is just plain incredible. The book is a collection of novellas and short stories that Shepard has written over the years. The first of these, "The Man Who Painted the Dragon Griaule" ( extended excerpt at Baen), won the world Fantasy Award for best novella in 1985. In my personal opinion, every story save one ("Liar's House") is among the best Fantasy I've ever read. That story is good, just not as great as the rest.
What seems weird is that even though there are 20+ year-old stories included, the collection itself was just published barely over a year ago. And while the hardcover is relatively expensive, it's only $4.99 for Kindle. So, it's not like they're reviving a long-out-of-print rarity. Maybe it's just become a modern classic that quickly. Or does England not know about Lucius Shepard? 
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Considering the work done by PS Publishing on Lucius Shepard stories and the number of 1st pub works from them, I rather think that FM is just doing its job of releasing the cream of the crop in the series - it doesn't say that a Masterwork has to be over a certain number of years in age, it basically just has to be something that is well-above average for its type... but of course the US may not know that books are published (and written) in other parts of the world... or, indeed, that there are other parts of the world than the US...
