Leviathan 4

by VanderMeer, Jeff

• ISBN13: 9781892389824
• ISBN10: 1892389827
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2005-08-01
• Publisher: Nightshade Book

Summary

Following up on the World Fantasy Award-winning Leviathan 3, Leviathan 4 is a Baedeker of the fantastical, exploring the character of cities and the city as character, mapping the streets of the imagination. This fourth volume of the Leviathan series takes the reader to a variety of cities in all their splendor and decadence. Explore the streets of the imagination, wander the byways, and hear the stories of these fantastical foci with such authors as Philip K. Dick Award winner Stepan Chapman, International Horror Guild Award Winner Michael Cisco, and "The Etched City" author KJ Bishop. What others have said about previous volumes in the Leviathan series: "Literary decadence is the credo of Leviathan: elaborately languorous prose, ambitious and sometimes esoteric symbolism, flamboyant grotesquerie, the sensibility of the sophisticatedly jaded aesthete. This is a recipe for fine, unusual writing, for startlingly unconventional textual effects; Leviathan . . . is a feast for palates this way inclined . . . Decadent fantasy has rarely had this attractive and substantial a vehicle." -- Nick Gevers, Locus ". . . The variety and ambition of this compilation mandates that lovers of speculative fiction consider it for their own self-defined libraries." -- Publishers Weekly Contents: Michael Cisco, "The City of God" Ben Peek, "The Dreaming City" Jay Lake, "The Soul Bottles" Catherine Kasper, "Encyclopedia of Ubar" Allan Kausch, "Mimosa in Heligola" KJ Bishop, "We the Enclosed" Stepan Chapman, "The Revenge of the Calico Cat" Darla Beasley, "The City of Lost Languages" Ursula Pflug, "The Wizard of Wardenclyffe" Tim Jarvis, "The Imaginary Anatomy of a Horse"

Table of Contents

The City of God
Michael Cisco	7	(18)
The Dreaming City
Ben Peek	25	(34)
The Soul Bottles
Jay Lake	59	(20)
Encyclopedia of Ubar
Catherine Kasper	79	(24)
Mimosa in Heligoland
Allan Kausch	103	(20)
We the Enclosed
KJ Bishop	123	(26)
The Revenge of the Calico Cat
Stepan Chapman	149	(36)
The City of Lost Languages
Darla Beasley	185	(14)
The Wizard of Wardenclyffe
Ursula Pflug	199	(24)
The Imaginary Anatomy of a Horse
Tim Jarvis	223