Paper Cities: An Anthology of Urban Fantasy
This anthology of 21 original fantasy stories explores humanity’s most dynamic and forceful creation—the city. Featuring tales from fantasy heavyweights such as Hal Duncan, Catherynne M. Valente, Jay Lake, and Barth Anderson, the collection whisks readers from dizzying rooftop perches down to the underpasses, gutters, and the sinister secrets therein. Mutilated warrior women, dead boys, mechanical dogs, and escape artists are just some of the wonders and horrors explored in this bizarre...
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Winner of the 2009 World Fantasy Award for Best AnthologyThe city has always been a place of mystery, of magic, and wonder. In cities past, present, and future, in metropoli real and imagined, meet mutilated warrior-women, dead boys, mechanical dogs, escape artists and more. From the dizzying heights of rooftops and spires to the sinister secrets of underpasses and gutters, some of the most talented authors writing today will take you on a trip through the urban fantastic. Edited by Ekaterina Sedia, author of The Secret History of Moscow and the Alchemy of Stone.Twenty-one original stories from Forrest Aguirre, Barth Anderson, Steve Berman, Darin Bradley, Stephanie Campisi, Hal Duncan, Mike Jasper, Vylar Kaftan, Jay Lake, Paul Meloy, Richard Parks, Ben Peek, Cat Rambo, Jenn Reese, David Schwartz, Cat Sparks, Anna Tambour, Mark Teppo, Catherynne M. Valente, Greg van Eekhout, and Kaaron Warren.Jeff VanderMeer"Variety, along with a willingness to publish new and established writers alike, helps explain Paper Cities' considerable appeal…ambitious and entertaining...a delightful and absorbing read."
\ Booklist Reviewer"These story settings range from the suburbs to the cities of the future; and their approaches to the idea of the urban, what urbs are, and how we might interact with them as they become ever more fantastic, are wildly varied, intensely satisfying."\ \ \ \ \ Delia Sherman"Paper Cities is a really cool anthology, a wide-ranging collection of styles, approaches, and genres. In fact, it's a wonderful metaphor for the idea of the City: simultaneously bright and dark, crowded and lonely, all about life and all about death, beautiful and horrible. There are remarkable imaginations at work in these stories. Read them and see."\ \ \ Jeff VanderMeer"Variety, along with a willingness to publish new and established writers alike, helps explain Paper Cities' considerable appeal…ambitious and entertaining...a delightful and absorbing read."\ \ \ \ \ Library Journal"Together with 18 other stories of cities and their people, this vital collection pushes the envelope of the urban fantasy genre, reaching beyond the standards made popular by Charles de Lint, Tanya Huff, and Jim Butcher to create an ever expanding definition of the term...this collection belongs in most libraries."\ \ \ \ \ Rich Horton"A strong, original, selection; giving a useful reinvigoration to the idea of Urban Fantasy."\ \
