Jubilee

Jack Dann. Tor Books, $27.95 (448pp) ISBN 978-0-7653-0676-0

Jubilee, by Jack Dann (The Man Who Melted; The Memory Cathedral), collects 17 stories by this acclaimed SF/Fantasy author, including the Nebula Award-winning ""Da Vinci Rising,"" in which Leonardo actually builds the flying machines he designed, and ""The Diamond Pit,"" an homage to F. Scott Fitzgerald's ""The Diamond as Big as the Ritz."" Dann is the co-editor of the Australian story anthology, Dreaming Down-Under (Forecasts, Jan. 29, 2001), which won a World Fantasy Award.

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