Naked City: Tales of Urban Fantasy (Riverside Series) by Ellen DatlowMy rating: 4 of 5 stars
It is always difficult to give a rating to an anthology. The editor Ellen Datlow has again pulled together an excellent anthology.
I found Naked City to be a well balanced collection, with individual stories ranging from 3 to 5 stars.
It is a strong collection all of the stories adhere to the theme of the truly urban, urban fantasy, so it feels like they all belong in this collection, that no story is there just as filler or just for the name of the author.
There are stories from a good mix of authors with some that are well known, some I had heard of but not read, and some unknown to me.
One of the reasons I read anthologies, is to read new authors and to expand my reading into other genre's and sub-genre's. The theme of the city allowed this anthology to within a tight framework cross the sub-genre's of Urban fantasy.
I have added some new authors to my to read list; remembered that not all vampire stories are paranormal romance, and that there are a couple authors and series that I need to get back too.
Edited by Ellen Datlow web site: http://www.datlow.com/
Curses By Jim Butcher
How The Pooka Came To New York City By Delia Sherman
On The Slide By Richard Bowes
The Duke Of Riverside By Ellen Kushner
Oblivion By Calvin Klein By Christopher Fowler
Fairy Gifts By Patricia Briggs
Picking Up The Pieces By Pat Cadigan
Underbridge By Peter S. Beagle
Priced To Sell By Naomi Novik
The Bricks Of Gelecek By Matthew Kressel
Weston Walks By Kit Reed
The Projected Girl By Lavie Tidhar
The Way Station By Nathan Ballingrud
Guns For The Dead By Melissa Marr
And Go Like This By John Crowley
Noble Rot By Holly Black
Daddy Longlegs Of The Evening By Jeffrey Ford
The Skinny Girl By Lucius Shepard
The Colliers’ Venus (1893) By Caitlín R. Kiernan
King Pole, Gallows Pole, Bottle Tree By Elizabeth Bear
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