Paper Cities: An Anthology of Urban Fantasy, edited by Ekaterina Sedia; My Mother She Killed Me, My Father He Ate Me, edited by Kate Bernheimer; The Weird, Ann VanderMeer(co-editor) Monstrous Affections: An Anthology of Beastly Tales, co-edited by Kelly Link ; Women Winners for Best Collection. · Book Review: Paper Cities: An Anthology of Urban Fantasy edited by Ekaterina Sedia. Every Monday, I'll be doing spoiler-free, bite-sized book reviews. There are two things that I'd like to praise when it comes to Paper Cities. The first is its theme as it strikes the right balance of being able to unite the twenty-one stories in this anthology into a cohesive, consistent whole yet having enough Estimated Reading Time: 6 mins. The editor of this anthology, Ekaterina Sedia, has a broader view of the sub-genre - fantasy stories that take place in a city, regardless of the time period. From the collection's first story, it becomes clear what the problem with this loose description is - any medie Paper Cities is /5.
This comment of mine regarding Ekaterina Sedia's The Secret History of Moscow can just as easily be applied to a recent anthology that she edited, Paper Cities: An Anthology of Urban Fantasy. A city is not a monolithic entity; it shifts and warps the viewer's perception from one street corner or block to the next. Ekaterina Sedia (born July 9, ) is a Russian fantasy writer. She immigrated to the United States and attended college in New Jersey to obtain her Ph.D. She is best known as a fantasy author. Her most famous work is The Alchemy of Stone, a steampunk novel that examines sexism and class bigotry. Sedia's other novels include The Secret History of Moscow, According to Crow, and The House of. Paper Cities: An Anthology of Urban Fantasy; The Way of the Wizard (e.g. Steampunk ed. Ann and Jeff VanderMeer), or plumbing the depths of a specific theme (e.g. Paper Cities ed. Ekaterina Sedia). Through painstaking editorial curation, anthologists consolidate different voices and stories into a meaningful, unified whole. And while I.
Book Review: Paper Cities: An Anthology of Urban Fantasy edited by Ekaterina Sedia. Every Monday, I'll be doing spoiler-free, bite-sized book reviews. There are two things that I'd like to praise when it comes to Paper Cities. The first is its theme as it strikes the right balance of being able to unite the twenty-one stories in this anthology into a cohesive, consistent whole yet having enough leeway to cover a variety of subject matter. "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. The editor of this anthology, Ekaterina Sedia, has a broader view of the sub-genre - fantasy stories that take place in a city, regardless of the time period. From the collection's first story, it becomes clear what the problem with this loose description is - any medie Paper Cities is an anthology of urban fantasy short stories.
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