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"How good would it really be to have magical abilities in a world that doesn't believe in magic?" asks the bacover blurb of this anthology of original fantasy stories. "How would you learn to master those skills? Would you use them for the general good or your own selfish reasons? Would it be better to be born in a realm where magic is actually accepted? What challenges would the fledgling wizard face in such a world?" That pretty well sums up the assortment of tales between these covers. In 17 stories, authors including Alan Dean Foster, Jody-Lynn Nye, Tanya Huff, Sarah A. Hoyt, Fiona Patton, and more (the women, I notice, are heavily in the majority--perhaps women are just likelier to write about children?) show us young people from infancy to teenhood (one is 15--and any 15-year-old will be quick to tell you that She Is Not a CHILD!), some of them living "under wraps" in our own world, some in realities where magic is an everyday part of the landscape. Some stories are dark, some humorous; there's even a story explaining how the "godlike" Leonardo daVinci--the epitome of the Renaissance Man--acquired his talents. Greenberg, as usual, chooses well, helped by co-editor Kerrie Hughes. Fantasy-lovers shouldn't miss it.
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