03 March 2014

Review: Tales of the City edited by Philip Purser-Hallard

Trade paperback, 154 pages
Published 2012

Acquired August 2012
Read February 2013
The Obverse Quarterly: Year Two, Book One: Tales of the City
edited by Philip Purser-Hallard

The City of the Saved (the city after the end of the universe where everyone ever is alive again all at once) is a great idea, and I'm thankful that it's gotten its first full-length feature here. Highlights include Elizabeth Evershed's "The Socratic Problem," where Socrates is brought on a guest lecturer at a City university; "Highbury" by Helen Angove, set in a district of the City inhabited by people from Regency England and people who wish they were from Regency England; and the magnificently creepy "Bruises" by Dave Hoskin.

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