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'''''Stranger Tales of the City''''' was the sixth anthology in the ''[[The City of the Saved (series)|City of the Saved]]'' series. It was edited by range veteran [[Elizabeth Evershed]] | '''''Stranger Tales of the City''''' was the sixth anthology in the ''[[The City of the Saved (series)|City of the Saved]]'' series. It was edited by range veteran [[Elizabeth Evershed]], making it the first ''City of the Saved'' anthology to be edited by someone other than [[City of the Saved|the City]]'s creator [[Philip Purser-Hallard]]. | ||
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A window-seller visits a claustrophobic suburb and finds it full of mystery. | A window-seller visits a claustrophobic suburb and finds it full of mystery. | ||
A [[Remake]] gunslinger seeks a new role from the one he was | A [[Remake]] gunslinger seeks a new role from the one he was always meant to play… | ||
In this, the sixth anthology in the [[The City of the Saved (series)|City of the Saved series]], we meet a host of [[human]] and not-so-human characters getting to grips with life in the afterlife: [[alien]] adoptees with no previous experience of human cultures; Citizens permanently missing and not merely misplaced; [[priest]]esses of long-forgotten [[religion]]s; [[posthuman]]s with their own baffling version of the [[Civil Tongue]]; a viral strain of humankind that has never known community… | In this, the sixth anthology in the [[The City of the Saved (series)|City of the Saved series]], we meet a host of [[human]] and not-so-human characters getting to grips with life in the afterlife: [[alien]] adoptees with no previous experience of human cultures; Citizens permanently missing and not merely misplaced; [[priest]]esses of long-forgotten [[religion]]s; [[posthuman]]s with their own baffling version of the [[Civil Tongue]]; a [[virus|viral]] strain of humankind that has never known community… | ||
The City is full of strangers and these are their tales. | The City is full of strangers and these are their tales. | ||
Revision as of 01:12, 7 June 2018
Stranger Tales of the City was the sixth anthology in the City of the Saved series. It was edited by range veteran Elizabeth Evershed, making it the first City of the Saved anthology to be edited by someone other than the City's creator Philip Purser-Hallard.
Publisher's summary
The knights hospitaller have just woken to a second life in a City the size of a galaxy.
Two strangers from a far-distant future are flung together on Resurrection Day.
A window-seller visits a claustrophobic suburb and finds it full of mystery.
A Remake gunslinger seeks a new role from the one he was always meant to play…
In this, the sixth anthology in the City of the Saved series, we meet a host of human and not-so-human characters getting to grips with life in the afterlife: alien adoptees with no previous experience of human cultures; Citizens permanently missing and not merely misplaced; priestesses of long-forgotten religions; posthumans with their own baffling version of the Civil Tongue; a viral strain of humankind that has never known community…
The City is full of strangers and these are their tales.
Individual stories
Notes
to be added
External links
- Stranger Tales of the City on the Obverse Books website
- Stranger Tales of the City at the Faction Paradox wiki
