http://www.fantasticmetropolis.com Like no place else. Copyright 2006 Sat, 29 Mar 2008 00:39:53 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=1.2.2 http://www.fantasticmetropolis.com/i/breakingwindows/ http://www.fantasticmetropolis.com/i/breakingwindows/#comments Sat, 23 Aug 2003 23:00:00 +0000 Nonfiction Editorials Reprints http://www.fantasticmetropolis.com/i/breakingwindows/ bq. With cities, it is as with dreams: everything imaginable can be dreamed, but even the most unexpected dream is a rebus that conceals a desire, or, its reverse, a fear. Cities, like dreams, are made up of desires and fears, even if the thread of their discourse is secret, ... http://www.fantasticmetropolis.com/i/breakingwindows/feed/ http://www.fantasticmetropolis.com/i/war/ http://www.fantasticmetropolis.com/i/war/#comments Wed, 02 Apr 2003 23:00:00 +0000 Editorials Originals http://www.fantasticmetropolis.com/i/war/ "Today, I weep for my country," US Senator Robert Byrd declared when the US and Britain began its illegal invasion of Iraq, a country that had neither attacked nor threatened them. "Instead of reasoning with those with whom we disagree, we demand obedience or threaten recrimination. Instead of isolating Saddam ... http://www.fantasticmetropolis.com/i/war/feed/ http://www.fantasticmetropolis.com/i/wittig/ http://www.fantasticmetropolis.com/i/wittig/#comments Fri, 24 Jan 2003 23:00:00 +0000 Nonfiction Editorials Originals http://www.fantasticmetropolis.com/i/wittig/ "I first read ??Les Guérillères?? almost a quarter of a century ago. The beauty of its language and imagery so stunned me, the fierceness of its depiction and enactment of war on the gendered category of "woman" so inspired me, its formal inventiveness so excited me, that Wittig's work would ... http://www.fantasticmetropolis.com/i/wittig/feed/ http://www.fantasticmetropolis.com/i/passion/ http://www.fantasticmetropolis.com/i/passion/#comments Tue, 10 Sep 2002 23:00:00 +0000 Nonfiction Editorials Originals http://www.fantasticmetropolis.com/i/passion/ I have a distinct image of myself at age eight, occupying a large upholstered green chair of nubbly early fifties vintage, "lost" in a book. Sometimes my memory has me sprawling in that chair with my scrawny stick-figure legs dangling over one of the arms. Or it has me lying ... http://www.fantasticmetropolis.com/i/passion/feed/ http://www.fantasticmetropolis.com/i/shadow/ http://www.fantasticmetropolis.com/i/shadow/#comments Thu, 14 Mar 2002 23:00:00 +0000 Editorials Reprints The Shadow Cabinet http://www.fantasticmetropolis.com/i/shadow/ One aspect of fantastical literature that concerns me deeply and which has universal implications is the relative paucity of unique, interesting imaginations within fiction today. Too many writers and readers prefer their literature spoon-fed to them, in portions similar to the last, with the same smells and colors, served to ... http://www.fantasticmetropolis.com/i/shadow/feed/ http://www.fantasticmetropolis.com/i/20020205/ http://www.fantasticmetropolis.com/i/20020205/#comments Mon, 04 Feb 2002 23:00:00 +0000 Editorials Originals http://www.fantasticmetropolis.com/i/20020205/ Welcome to February's ??Fantastic Metropolis??. We have some wonderful works for you, including Barry Bayley's extremely funny [[Love in Backspace|"Love in Backspace,"]] Coming up this month is [[Jack the Rip-off|Iain Sinclair's incisive review of ??From Hell??]], the movie, plus his [[Diggers March on Uxbridge|"Diggers March on Uxbridge,"]] new material from ... http://www.fantasticmetropolis.com/i/20020205/feed/ http://www.fantasticmetropolis.com/i/20011209/ http://www.fantasticmetropolis.com/i/20011209/#comments Sat, 08 Dec 2001 23:00:00 +0000 Editorials Originals http://www.fantasticmetropolis.com/i/20011209/ Many years ago someone asked "Brian Aldiss":http://www.brianwaldiss.com if he felt science fiction might in some ways be a 'subversive' form of fiction. Brian replied 'Of course it's subversive. It wouldn't be any good if it _wasn't_ subversive.' That was in what we now know to be the hey day of ... http://www.fantasticmetropolis.com/i/20011209/feed/ http://www.fantasticmetropolis.com/i/20011115/ http://www.fantasticmetropolis.com/i/20011115/#comments Wed, 14 Nov 2001 23:00:00 +0000 Editorials Originals http://www.fantasticmetropolis.com/i/20011115/ Rumours of ??Fantastic Metropolis?? collapsing in brilliant ruins have, I'm happy to say, been greatly exaggerated. In fact this site is still very much as active as it ever was and we are already expanding it. The explanation is simple and familiar. Gabe has temporarily had to give up editorship ... http://www.fantasticmetropolis.com/i/20011115/feed/ http://www.fantasticmetropolis.com/i/20011025/ http://www.fantasticmetropolis.com/i/20011025/#comments Wed, 24 Oct 2001 23:00:00 +0000 Editorials Originals http://www.fantasticmetropolis.com/i/20011025/ Once upon a time, my pal Jeff VanderMeer off-handedly mentioned in an email that I should put out a webzine. I brushed him off, saying "I don't know enough about web design to manage a webzine!" And that was it. I thought. http://www.fantasticmetropolis.com/i/20011025/feed/ http://www.fantasticmetropolis.com/i/intro/ http://www.fantasticmetropolis.com/i/intro/#comments Sun, 14 Oct 2001 23:00:00 +0000 Editorials Originals http://www.fantasticmetropolis.com/i/intro/ The focus of the Fantastic Metropolis website is cast directly upon those murky edges of genre and non-genre works, which explore the vague recesses of fiction and Humanity, the fantastic and the horrific. http://www.fantasticmetropolis.com/i/intro/feed/