Pandemonium Stories of the Smoke Author:Anne C. Perry (Editor), Jared Shurin (Editor) Stories of the Smoke brings you London as you've never seen it before - science fiction and fantasy in the great tradition of Charles Dickens. Dickens lived and breathed London in a way few authors ever have, before or since. In his fiction, his non-fiction, and even his own life, Dickens cast an extraordinary shadow over the city he s... more »o loved - so much so, indeed, that his name has become synonymous with a certain image of London. A London of terrible social inequality and matchless belief in the human potential; a London filled with the comic and the repulsive, the industrious and the feckless, the faithful and the faithless, the selfish and the selfless. This London is at once an historical artifact and a living, breathing creature: the steaming, heaving, weeping, stinking, everlasting Smoke.
Contents:
Introduction: "The Nightmare City" by Christopher Fowler
Illustrations by Gary Northfield
Inspector Bucket Investigates / Sarah Lotz
Uncle Smoke / Archie Black
A Dance of Life and Dust / Aliette de Bodard
Victory Year / Alexis Kennedy
The Collection / Esther Saxey
An Unburdening of the Soul / David Thomas Moore
Necropolis / Jonathan Green
The Knowledge / Rebecca Levene
Londoner / Jenni van der Merwe
The Unkindness of Ravens / Glen Mehn
The Pickwick Syndrome / Kaaron Warren
The Hound of Henry Hortinger / Michelle Goldsmith
Aye, There's the Twist / James Wallis
The City of the Absent / Charles Dickens
A Brief History of the Great Pubs of London / Lavie Tidhar