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So I was reading a new epic fantasy anthology which caught my attention because it includes stories from several of my favorite authors, as well as other authors that I've been wanting to try. I was really enjoying the book until I got to the story by Patrick Rothfuss, which turned out to be an excerpt from The Wise Man's Fear.

Disappointed, I moved onto the story by Brandon Sanderson, and that too turned out to be an excerpt from the Way of Kings. Now I'm wondering if all of, or a majority, of the stories in this book are not original, after all, but just excerpts. It's hard for me to tell since I haven't read every book by every author in it, but if this is the case it would certainly lower my estimation of the anthology. Is this a common practice with fantasy anthologies, to include previously published excerpts from an author's other books?

Going just on my experience (and I actually don't usually read short stories except by getting sucked into to get more by a very favorite author), what's more usual is that an author takes an older short story and develops novel directly from or using that worldbuilding. Or, once a short story is published, it could get recycled into multiple anthologies. Excerpts are usually just bonus material at the ends of author's preceding works.

Not all short stories get listed separately at goodreads; readers, librarians, staff or whoever does add/edit tend to do a good job noting what anthologies published in and if based on or set in a series of books will put ".5" to denote where it falls ( for example, if chronologically between book 2 and 3 of a series will label it "2.5").

I don't like the idea of calling excerpts an anthology; an excerpt is not usually a complete short story.

Simcha wrote: "So I was reading a new epic fantasy anthology which caught my attention because it includes stories from several of my favorite authors, as well as other authors that I've been wanting to try. I wa..."

I just bought this, if it's Epic: Legends of Fantasy. I have never bought an anthology that had excerpts from published novels. I've read anthologies that had the same characters as the author's novels but in a different previously unpublished story.

I find this disappointing.