Paper Cities: An Anthology of Urban Fantasy

10 best books like Paper Cities: An Anthology of Urban Fantasy (Ekaterina Sedia): In the Forest of Forgetting, Saffron and Brimstone: Strange Stories, Dark Faith, Cloud and Ashes: Three Winter's Tales, The Empire of Ice Cream, Clockwork Phoenix: Tales of Beauty and Strangeness, Flights: Extreme Visions of Fantasy, Interfictions: An Anthology of Interstitial Writing, Map of Dreams, Salon Fantastique: Thirty Original Tales of Fantasy

In the Forest of Forgetting

Author	Theodora Goss
ISBN	1907881182

The reprint of In the Forest of Forgetting by award-winning author Theodora Goss, first published in 2006 by Prime Books, with an introduction by Terri Windling and cover art by Virginia Lee. The table of contents has been slightly modified: "Phalaenopsis" has been replaced by "Her Mother's Ghosts,"...

Saffron and Brimstone: Strange Stories

Author	Elizabeth Hand
ISBN	1595820965

Widely praised and widely read, Elizabeth Hand is regarded as one of America's leading literary fantasists. This new collection (an expansion of the limited-release Bibliomancy, which won the World Fantasy Award in 2005) showcases a wildly inventive author at the height of her powers. Included...

Dark Faith

Author	Maurice Broaddus
ISBN	0982159684

The destructiveness of passion, both earthly and supernatural, makes cities bleed and souls burn across worlds, through endless time. Experience the spiritual side of the zombie apocalypse in "The Days of Flaming Motorcycles" and transcend both hell and nirvana in "Zen and the Art of Gordon Dratch's...

Cloud and Ashes: Three Winter's Tales

Author	Greer Gilman
ISBN	1931520550

I am wind and memory who spells this . . . Gilman’s second novel, Cloud & Ashes, is a slow whirlwind of language, a button box of words, a mythic Joycean fable that will invite immersion, study, revisitation, and delight. To step into her world is to witness the bright flashes, witty turns, and shadowy...

The Empire of Ice Cream

Author	Jeffrey Ford
ISBN	1930846398

Mixing the mundane with the metaphysical, the pairings of the everyday and the extraordinary in this collection of short fiction yield supernatural results—a young musician perceives another world while drinking coffee, a fairy chronicles his busy life in a sandcastle during the changing tide,...

Clockwork Phoenix: Tales of Beauty and Strangeness

Author	Mike Allen
ISBN	1934169986

You hold in your hands a cornucopia of modern cutting-edge fantasy. The first volume of this extraordinary new annual anthology series of fantastic literature explodes on the scene with works that sidestep expectations in beautiful and unsettling ways, that surprise with their settings and startle...

Flights: Extreme Visions of Fantasy

Author	Al Sarrantonio
ISBN	0451459776

Now, Sarrantonio presents another daring, all-new anthology showcasing some of the genre's biggest names and best newcomers. "Flights: Extreme Visions of Fantasy" sets the standard for fantasy in the twenty-first century. Fantasy as literature. Fantasy that reinvigorates and expands the field's...

Interfictions: An Anthology of Interstitial Writing

Author	Delia Sherman
ISBN	1931520240

Nineteen writers dig into the imaginative spaces between conventional genres—realistic and fantastical, scholarly and poetic, personal and political—and bring up gems of new fiction: interstitial fiction.

This is the literary mode of the new century, a reflection of the complex,...

Map of Dreams

Author	M. Rickert
ISBN	1930846444

Set in a reality where nightmares do not fade upon waking, this anthology skims along the surface of life and dips just beneath, revealing the hidden machinations that fuel dreams. These underlying myths and fantasies exist not as musty old stories but as ancient truths that have come to illuminate...

Salon Fantastique: Thirty Original Tales of Fantasy

Author	Ellen Datlow
ISBN	1560258330

Here are original stories that straddle the borderline between "fantasy" and "mainstream" fiction, stories both bright and dark in tone (without straying into the realm of horror fiction). Sometimes set in the contemporary or historical world, sometimes pure fantasy or an imagined "history,"...

Shine: An Anthology of Optimistic Science Fiction

Author	Jetse de Vries
ISBN	1906735670

Some of the world's most talented SF writers collected to throw light on a brighter future.

Shine: a collection of gems that throw light on a brighter future. Some of the world's most talented SF writers (including Alastair Reynolds, Kay Keyon and Jason Stoddard) show how things can change...

Wings of Fire

Author	Jonathan Strahan
ISBN	1597801879

Dragons: Fearsome fire-breathing foes, scaled adversaries, legendary lizards, ancient hoarders of priceless treasures, serpentine sages with the ages' wisdom, and winged weapons of war... Wings of Fire brings you all these dragons, and more, seen clearly through the eyes of many of today's most...

The Mammoth Book of Steampunk

Author	Sean Wallace
ISBN	0762444681

The Mammoth Book of Steampunk showcases the very best in the form of stories by Paul Di Filippo, Neil Gaiman, Cherie Priest, and many more.

An anthology that looks to the future through the lens of the past, these 30 mash-ups of past and future push the boundaries of steampunk.

This is...

Feeling Very Strange: The Slipstream Anthology

Author

James Patrick Kelly

If it is true that the test of a first-rate mind is its ability to hold two contradictory ideas at the same time, then we live in a century when it takes a first-rate mind just to get through the day. We have unprecedented access to information; cognitive dissonance is a banner headline in our morning papers...

Fast Ships, Black Sails

Author	Ann VanderMeer
ISBN	1597800945

Do you love the sound of a peg leg stomping across a quarterdeck? Or maybe you prefer a parrot on your arm, a strong wind at your back? Adventure, treasure, intrigue, humor, romance, danger — and, yes, plunder! Oh, the Devil does love a pirate — and so do readers everywhere!
Swashbuckling from...

The Mammoth Book of Alternate Histories

Author	Ian Watson
ISBN	1845297792

As usual, I've reviewed each story as I've come to it.

The Raft of the Titanic by James Murrow
The problem with taking the obvious route when applying alternative history to HMS Titanic is that if you create a story where the Titanic doesn’t ship it becomes a case of “so what?” The interesting...

Other Worlds Than These

Author	John Joseph Adams
ISBN	1597804339

What if you could not only travel any location in the world, but to any possible world?

We can all imagine such “other worlds”—be they worlds just slightly different than our own or worlds full of magic and wonder—but it is only in fiction that we can travel to them. From The Wizard of Oz...