Cities of Wonder, Rails of Irreality
Cities of Wonder, Rails of Irreality:
stories and poems of Yahm
The cities along the Yahm Railroad expose many mysteries of the cosmos—of language, meaning, and reality. Bringing together equal parts of the fabulist tales of Italo Calvino's Invisible Cities and the languid and evocative fantasies of Lord Dunsany, these thirteen stories and poems explore the strange realities of these cities...and perhaps of all cities. By the author of the Spire City series and the Arcist Chronicles, this collection combines a mixture of previously published work with new writings to create a whole that twists and juggles with the reality we think we know.
This collection brings together thirteen stories and poems with a fabulist/magical realist slant.
Table of Contents:
- The Locus of All Rails (previously unpublished poem)
- City of Games (previously published in Raven Electrick Ink's Sport Spec)
- City of Façades (previously published in Raven Electrick Ink's Cinema Spec)
- Cities of Nostalgia (previously published in Kaleidotrope 11)
- Orthography in the Lands of Yahm (previously published in Strange Horizons, poem)
- Village of the Time Travelers (previously published in the INDIEpendence Anthology)
- City of Animals (previously unpublished flash fiction)
- The Singing Caves (previously unpublished flash fiction)
- The City of Corpses (previously unpublished short story)
- The People of Train Smoke (previously unpublished poem)
- City of Letters (previously unpublished flash fiction)
- The City of Lost Voices (previously unpublished flash fiction)
- The Fossils of Yahm (previously unpublished flash fiction)
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