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Dreams Underfoot

The Newford Collection

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Dreams Underfoot

By: Charles de Lint
Narrated by: Kate Reading
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Welcome to Newford: to the music clubs, the waterfront, and the alleyways where ancient myths and magic spill into the modern world. Gemmins live in abandoned cars and skells traverse the tunnels below, while mermaids swim in the gray harbor waters and fill the cold night with their song.

Come meet Jilly, painting wonders in the rough city streets; and Geordie, playing fiddle while he dreams of a ghost; and the Angel of Grasso Street gathering the fey and the wild and the poor and the lost. Dreams Underfoot is a must-read book not only for fans of urban fantasy but for all who seek magic in everyday life.

©1993 Charles de Lint (P)2009 Blackstone Audio, Inc. Magical Realism Paranormal & Urban Short Story Fantasy Contemporary Magic Fiction Urban Haunted Genre Fiction Anthologies & Short Stories Science Fiction
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"In de Lint's capable hands, modern fantasy becomes something other than escapism. It becomes folk song, the stuff of urban myth." (Phoenix Gazette)
"Charles de Lint shows that, far from being escapism, contemporary fantasy can be the deep mythic literature of our time." (Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction)
Urban Fantasy Elements • Interconnected Stories • Distinct Character Voices • Magical World-building • Excellent Modulation

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I read this out of order and it may have had some effect on my review. I read The Onion Girl recently and it was my first De Lint novel. I love Newford and the characters. His faerie world he has built is fascinating and is a non juvenile take on urban fantasy. Don't get me wrong, I read and enjoy YA novels, but its also nice to read a more complex and fleshed out version of fantasy/urban fantasy as well.

This book introduces you to many of the characters I learned of in The Onion Girl and I was expecting to get a little bit more history. It actually had an entire section that I swear was word for word in the Onion Girl and as others have mentioned the description of characters are a bit repetitive if you have read another De Lint book. This is something I both love and is a bit irritating. I love it because you do not have to read the Newford books in order. They stand on their own.

What I liked is it still has fleshed out characters and you learn more about Newford. It is clearly an introduction to Newford, however. It felt like a collection of stories rather than one story, and I prefer to have a main storyline. The Onion Girl took a bit to getting all its storylines to fit together but it did.

This feels like a first effort and when you look at how many books in his reperatoire are related to Newford this is clearly an earlier work. It's good, but I probably won't re read/relisten to it. I will definitely reread/relisten to The Onion Girl.

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I love Newford and enjoy every visit! I’m going back through the stories and this is the first time I’ve done it on audio. I get lost in the words better when I read but it’s nice listening on the road.

A magic place

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its a good read. I like that every story has some moral or idea that can be applied to one's life. these are stories with a purpose, more than fantasy.

ideas and ethics

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I loved it! It was so easy to enter into the worlds he created! A great escape. I'm listening again. :)

Phenomenal read

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Great narrator paired with a wonderful writer.

One of the first writers of "urban fantasy," DeLint presents speculative fiction in a way that begs to be believed.

You can't go wrong with narration by Kate Reading--always a delight!

Delightful

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