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/ishiguro-distortions/ http://www.fantasticmetropolis.com/i/ishiguro-distortions/#comments Sun, 01 Jan 2006 05:42:10 +0000 Nonfiction Reprints http://www.fantasticmetropolis.com/i/ishiguro-distortions/ Geoffrey Maloney writes on the speculative fiction elements in Kazuo Ishiguro's novel The Unconsoled. http://www.fantasticmetropolis.com/i/ishiguro-distortions/feed/ http://www.fantasticmetropolis.com/i/cathar-3/ http://www.fantasticmetropolis.com/i/cathar-3/#comments Sun, 28 Aug 2005 23:00:00 +0000 Originals Encyclopedia of Heresies http://www.fantasticmetropolis.com/i/cathar-3/ As above, so below. In the third part of his extensive essay on the Cathar heresy, Matthew Rossi paints a mind-blowing portrait of 13th-century Europe as a continent tangled in a massive religious conflict where influent characters attempt to re-imagine the nature of the divine so that they themselves ... http://www.fantasticmetropolis.com/i/cathar-3/feed/ http://www.fantasticmetropolis.com/i/cathar-2/ http://www.fantasticmetropolis.com/i/cathar-2/#comments Sun, 31 Jul 2005 17:47:14 +0000 Originals Encyclopedia of Heresies http://www.fantasticmetropolis.com/i/cathar-2/ Are we but conduits for the thought processes of God? If so, would have the Cathars been trying to influence the mind of the universe? Matthew Rossi continues to explore and speculate about the Cathar heresy in the second instalment of this multi-part essay. http://www.fantasticmetropolis.com/i/cathar-2/feed/ http://www.fantasticmetropolis.com/i/cathar-1/ http://www.fantasticmetropolis.com/i/cathar-1/#comments Sun, 29 May 2005 22:57:46 +0000 Originals Encyclopedia of Heresies http://www.fantasticmetropolis.com/i/cathar-1/ Matthew Rossi introduces Hildegard of Bingen in the first instalment of a multi-part, 22,000-word essay about the Cathar heresy. http://www.fantasticmetropolis.com/i/cathar-1/feed/ http://www.fantasticmetropolis.com/i/sheep-to-the-slaughter/ http://www.fantasticmetropolis.com/i/sheep-to-the-slaughter/#comments Sun, 24 Apr 2005 19:24:36 +0000 Originals Encyclopedia of Heresies http://www.fantasticmetropolis.com/i/sheep-to-the-slaughter/ Egyptian mummies loaded with cocaine? Surely it must involve the School of Night, assassins and the mysterious disappearance of the Roanoke Island colony. At least according to Matthew Rossi's latest entry in the Encyclopedia of Heresies. http://www.fantasticmetropolis.com/i/sheep-to-the-slaughter/feed/ http://www.fantasticmetropolis.com/i/tanelorns-seed/ http://www.fantasticmetropolis.com/i/tanelorns-seed/#comments Sun, 27 Mar 2005 23:55:41 +0000 Originals Encyclopedia of Heresies http://www.fantasticmetropolis.com/i/tanelorns-seed/ In this new entry in the Encyclopedia of Heresies, Matthew Rossi tours the lost civilizations of the Indus Valley and the great cities of ancient Egypt, meeting the Eternal Champion in his perennial quest for Tanelorn along the way. http://www.fantasticmetropolis.com/i/tanelorns-seed/feed/ http://www.fantasticmetropolis.com/i/secret-lives-important/ http://www.fantasticmetropolis.com/i/secret-lives-important/#comments Sat, 26 Mar 2005 00:04:38 +0000 Nonfiction Originals http://www.fantasticmetropolis.com/i/secret-lives-important/ Jeff VanderMeer's report from research-in-progress for an important forthcoming book of nonfiction titled The Secret Lives of Important People. http://www.fantasticmetropolis.com/i/secret-lives-important/feed/ http://www.fantasticmetropolis.com/i/the-truth-and-the-truth/ http://www.fantasticmetropolis.com/i/the-truth-and-the-truth/#comments Sun, 27 Feb 2005 03:03:41 +0000 Originals Encyclopedia of Heresies http://www.fantasticmetropolis.com/i/the-truth-and-the-truth/ Matthew Rossi discusses the CIA, the last magical brotherhood of the 20th century, in this new entry in the Encyclopedia of Heresies. http://www.fantasticmetropolis.com/i/the-truth-and-the-truth/feed/ http://www.fantasticmetropolis.com/i/rise-of-the-swans/ http://www.fantasticmetropolis.com/i/rise-of-the-swans/#comments Sat, 19 Feb 2005 19:51:21 +0000 Nonfiction Originals http://www.fantasticmetropolis.com/i/rise-of-the-swans/ An exclusive article on Jeff Lint, the subject of Steve Aylett's forthcoming mock biography, LINT. http://www.fantasticmetropolis.com/i/rise-of-the-swans/feed/ http://www.fantasticmetropolis.com/i/pirates-of-the-epistemology/ http://www.fantasticmetropolis.com/i/pirates-of-the-epistemology/#comments Sun, 23 Jan 2005 20:08:48 +0000 Originals Encyclopedia of Heresies http://www.fantasticmetropolis.com/i/pirates-of-the-epistemology/ In this month's entry in the Encyclopedia of Heresies, Matthew Rossi explores dreams of utopia, mechanical gods, the fate of phlogiston and what Ben Franklin has to do with it all. http://www.fantasticmetropolis.com/i/pirates-of-the-epistemology/feed/