Breaking Windows
A Fantastic Metropolis Sampler
Description
Since its inception in October 2001, Fantastic Metropolis has been engaged in what is part of a permanent revolution against sterile, stereotypical fiction by encouraging the cross-pollination of ideas between genres and cultures, while showcasing speculative literature written by uniquely talented and creative people from around the world.
Part experiment, part an attempt to reach a vaster audience, this book collects a selection of the fiction, nonfiction, and interviews published during the first year of the Fantastic Metropolis website.
Available from Prime Books in hardcover and trade paperback formats.
Hardcover, 248 pages. ISBN: 1-894815-79-3. Retail price: $29.95.
Trade paperback, 248 pages. ISBN: 1-894815-59-9. Retail price: $17.95.
Praise for Breaking Windows
Fantastic Metropolis is a website with an agenda—literate, passionate and wise. I’ve been reading the essays on it since the site went up, and was delighted to hear they’re going to be collected in ink on paper form. I hope that, just a little, they change the world.
Some of the names included here are familiar literary guerillas; others are firing their first rounds. It’s a good way to start an uprising! Viva Fantastic Metropolis!
Fantastic Metropolis serves as a nexus of conceptual daring, marvelous taste in fantastical literature, boldness of manifesto-making, and high-minded serious fun.
Breaking Windows: A Fantastic Metropolis Sampler [...] collects fiction and nonfiction from the boundary-pushing web site of the same name. This is a great introduction to a site that is consistently broadening the borders and definitions of genre fiction and what a web site can do. Fantastic Metropolis is especially to be commended for the high proportion of fiction in translation.
—Kelly Link, The Year’s Best Fantasy & Horror: Seventeenth Annual Collection
A yeasty blend of essays, fiction and interviews, this sampler is well worth your dollar, despite all of its contents being available for free online. This material deserves the permanence of print.
—Paul Di Filippo, Asimov’s
It has to be one of the most interesting [books] this year.
—Steve Redwood, Whispers of Darkness
Contents
- Introduction, by Luís Rodrigues
Editorials
- “Christmas Editorial,” by Michael Moorcock
- “The Shadow Cabinet,” by Jeff VanderMeer
- “The Private Passion of the Rebellious Reader,” by L. Timmel Duchamp
Fiction
- “(All That Happens) Before the Epilogue,” by Andrew S. Fuller
- “Captain’s Library,” by Zoran Živković
- “Cogitor, Ergo Sum,” by Daniel Pearlman
- “Dr. North’s Wound,” by John Dodds
- “Gauntlet of Gorgons,” by Rhys Hughes
- “Horrors By Waters,” by Jeffrey Ford
- “Lottery,” by Colin Brush
- “Love in Backspace,” by Barrington J. Bayley
- “Pandora’s Bust,” by Rachel Pollack
- “Self-portraits,” by Aleksandar Gatalica
- “She Found Heaven,” by Nathan Ballingrud
- “Still Memories,” by Luís Filipe Silva
- “The Test,” by João Barreiros
Nonfiction
- “An Excellence of Peake,” by Michael Moorcock
- “Feverish Country, This,” by James Sallis
- “Fifty Fantasy & Science Fiction Works That Socialists Should Read,” by China Miéville
- “Old Nick and the Magician of Moscow,” by Andrew Hedgecock
- “Rescued from Oblivion,” by Jeff Topham
- “Utopia in Childhood’s End by Arthur C. Clarke,” by Zoran Živković
- “Writing Rules I like to Break,” by Carol Emshwiller
Interviews
- “Dan Pearlman Interview,” by Jeff VanderMeer
- “The Bayley-Moorcock Letters,” by Barrington J. Bayley and Michael Moorcock
- “To Ask the Real Questions,” by Paul Witcover
