"Intracities," edited by Michael Jasper

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The original guidelines for this small-small press anthology were as follows: "I'm looking for about a dozen good short stories for an anthology I'm editing called Intracities. I want you to take a good look at the place where you live, right now. Not the town you lived in as a kid, or a city you visited last year. Your current place of residence. Look around, check things out, go down some side roads if you have to. And then... write a story about it."

Intracities debuted at the 2003 World Fantasy Convention at a great party on Nov. 1st. Many thanks for everyone who participated and stopped by our little get-together.

Intracities is available the low, low price of $5 (plus shipping). You can order copies through Clarkesworld Books or Project Pulp. We have about a dozen copies left, so act now, for crying out loud! And remember, you can still buy an Intracities T-shirt from the Frank Wu store !!!

Intracities

Table of Contents

(in alphabetical order, by author)

"City Limits," Chris Babson
(Fuquay, North Carolina, USA)

"Dreams Unfathomable," Jay Caselberg
(London, England)

"Vodka Through a Straw," Peter Hagelslag
(Novorossiysk, Russia)

"Flow of Time and Water," Rachel S. Heslin
(Big Bear, California, USA)

"Iron Heaven," Jay Lake
(Portland, Oregon, USA)

"The Lost and Found of Years," Claude Lalumière
(Montreal, Canada)

"Enlightenment," Jason Erik Lundberg
(Raleigh, North Carolina, USA)

"Just Like Venice, Only Not," Mary Madewell
(Las Vegas, Nevada, USA)

"Mom and Pop," Paul E. Martens
(Rensselaer, New York, USA)

"Broken Branches," Heather Shaw and Tim Pratt
(Oakland, California, USA)

"Heat," Mark Siegel
(Phoenix, Arizona, USA)

"Where the Centaurs Roam," Jeffrey Turner
(Fort Worth, Texas, USA)

"Restless," Melissa Yuan-Innes
(Montreal, Canada)

Wraparound cover by Hugo-winning artist Frank Wu!!

INTRACITIES
(Cover by Frank Wu)

What the reviewers said about Intracities:

"On the whole, Intracities succeeds more often than not. The concept is intriguing; perhaps the editor will consider future numbers."
— Jeff Verona, Tangent Online

"A lively, handsome little theme anthology is to be found in the form of Intracities. Editor Michael Jasper here arrays a baker's dozen of tales focusing on the odd and uncanny niches to be found in such diverse cities as Phoenix, Montreal, Oakland, and London. With slipstreamy verve, the fourteen writers (there's one collaboration) present narratives about a spectral car mechanic (Mark Siegel's "Heat"); a reluctant Dalai Lama (Jason Erik Lundberg's "Enlightenment"); and a mythic railroadman (Jay Lake's "Iron Heaven"), among many other themes. And a striking wraparound collage by Frank Wu complements the whole package nicely."
— Paul DiFilippo, October/November 2004 Asimov's

This anthology brought to you by the fine folks at:

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