Fantastic Metropolis

Works cited

1. Kakutani, Michiko, “Book of the Times: From Kazuo Ishiguro, A New Annoying Hero”, New York Times, October 17, 1995, Late Edition—Final

2. Menand, Louis, “Anxious in Dreamland”, New York Times, October 15, 1995, Late Edition—Final

3. Ishiguro, Kazuo, The Unconsoled, 1995: 11

4. Ibid: 13

5. Ibid: 125

6. Ibid: 126

7. Ibid: 61

8. Ibid: 64

9. For a delightful example of this see John Wyndham’s short story “Random Quest” in his anthology Consider Her Ways and Others, London, Penguin, 1970

9. Ishiguro, op cited, 37

10. Ibid: 34

11. Ibid: 119

12. Ibid: 93

13. Ibid: 94

14. Ibid: 147–148

15. Ibid: 203

16. http://www.villard.com/vintage/read/unconsoled/ (no longer active)

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This essay is reprinted from the pages of Fables & Reflections #7.

Geoffrey Maloney lives in Brisbane, Queensland. He is interested in the fictional territory that lies between genres and enjoys crafting stories that use avant garde, speculative, mainstream, mystical and horror elements to generate a sense of otherworldliness. His first collection Tales from the Crypto-System was released by Prime Books in November 2003.