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Name: Fiddler Fair (Bardic Voices)
Author: Mercedes Lackey

📘 Fiddler Fair (Bardic Voices) by Mercedes Lackey

Mercedes Lackey’s *Fiddler Fair* gathers a series of stories that showcase her versatility as a writer. Readers encounter a wide range of genres—from Bardic fantasy to urban fantasy, from science‑fiction adventure to horror. The collection includes an animal‑rights activist plot involving genetically reconstructed dinosaurs, a desert expedition with Lawrence of Arabia that meets a power beyond human comprehension, a contemporary retelling of King Arthur who again wields the enchanted sword Excalibur, and a quirky tale where an alien UFO‑creature is intrigued by a battered Chevy pickup.

First publish date: 1998

Genre: Fantasy/Epic Fantasy

Authors: Mercedes Lackey

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