The Fair Folk

Why elves? On the other hand, why not elves? The Science Fiction Book Club wanted to do a new anthology, and elves are a nice broad subject that lets the authors stretch out. So we asked a half-dozen of our favorites to each tell us a story about that old, powerful and eternally fasinating species. There were only two requirements: each tale had to be novella-length, and there had to be at least one genuine elf in it. Beyond that, the sky (or the hollow hill) was the limit. So Patricia McKillip went back to the turn of the 19th century to tell about a group of artists whose bohemian ways…