Fantastic Metropolis

Some of the books I enjoyed this year in no particular order:

• Embers, Sandor Marai
• Appleseed, John Clute
• 1421: The Year China Discovered America, Gavin Menzies
• Immortal Sisters: Secret Teachings of Taoist Women, Thomas Cleary
• Forbidden Colours, Yukio Mishima
• The Skrayling Tree, Michael Moorcock
• The Twist, Richard Calder
• Compartments, Zoran Živković
• Wanderers and Islanders, Steve Cockayne
• The Unconsoled, Kazuo Ishiguro
• Tales from the Crypto-System, Geoff Maloney
• The Labyrinth, Catherynne M. Valente
• Lighthousekeeping, Jeanette Winterson
• The Crock of Gold, James Stephens
• Put Out More Flags, Evelyn Waugh

Lastly for cat lovers:

• The Rubáiyát of a Persian Kitten, Oliver Herford

K. J. Bishop’s World Fantasy Award-nominated The Etched City is reprinted in the United States by Bantam Spectra, while a UK edition is available from Tor. A new story, “We the Enclosed,” appears in Leviathan 4: Cities.