Paper Cities

Paper Cities: An Anthology of Urban Fantasy was first published in 2008 by Senses Five Press in trade paperback format.[1] It won the 2009 World Fantasy Award for best anthology.[2] It features 21 stories by 21 authors.[3] One of the stories featured in the anthology, Cat Sparks's "Sammarynda Deep", won the 2008 Aurealis Award for best fantasy short story.[4] It was also a short-list nominee for the 2009 Ditmar Award for best short story but lost to Margo Lanagan's "The Goosle" and Dirk Flinthart's "This Is Not My Story".[5]

• Introduction by Jess Nevins
• "Andretto Walks the King's Way", short story by Forrest Aguirre
• "The Tower of Morning's Bones", short story by Hal Duncan
• "Courting the Lady Scythe", short story by Richard Parks
• "The Bumblety's Marble", short story by Cat Rambo
• "Promises: A Tale of the City Imperishable", short story by Jay Lake
• "Ghost Market", short story by Greg van Eekhout
• "Sammarynda Deep", short story by Cat Sparks
• "Tearjerker", short story by Steve Berman
• "The Title of This Story", short story by Stephanie Campisi
• "The One That Got Away", short story by Mark Teppo
• "Alex and the Toyceivers", short story by Paul Meloy
• "Godivy", short story by Vylar Kaftan
• "Painting Haiti", short story by Michael Jasper
• "The Funeral, Ruined", short story by Ben Peek
• "Down to the Silver Spirits", short story by Kaaron Warren
• "They Would Only be Roads", short story by Darin C. Bradley
• "Taser", short story by Jenn Reese
• "Somnambulist", short story by David J. Schwartz (as David Schwartz)
• "The Age of Fish, Post-Flowers", short story by Anna Tambour
• "The Last Escape", short story by Barth Anderson
• "Palimpsest", short story by Catherynne M. Valente

• Paper Cities: An Anthology of Urban Fantasy at Senses Five Press