Edited by Luis Rodrigues, Breaking Windows features a well-balanced presentation of stories, interviews, and essays from the avant garde Fantastic Metropolis website. Featuring a stunning cover by Hawk Alfredson, Breaking Windows includes such contributors as Michael Moorcock, Jeff VanderMeer, China Mieville, Carol Emshwiller, Andrew S. Fuller, Zoran Zivkovic, Dan Pearlman, John Dodds, Rhys Hughes, Jeffrey Ford, Colin Brush, Barrington Bayley, Rachel Pollack, Aleksandar Gatalica, Nathan Ballingrud, Luis Filipe Silva, Joao Barreiros, L. Timmel Duchamp, James Sallis, Andrew Hedgecock, Jeff Topham, and Paul Witcover.
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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
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Fantastic,
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This review is from: Breaking Windows: A Fantastic Metropolis Sampler (Paperback)
This book is an excuse to re-read the best stuff from the Fantastic Metropolis Web site. Read Moorcock's editorial, which is sort of a second introduction after Luís' exploration of the city in speculative fiction and the genesis of the site, to get a sense of what Fantastic Metropolis is all about. There's no manifesto, just a committment to creativity, diversity, and originality. Luís did an excellent job culling the best of the best from the site, and keeping the reading interesting with essays, interviews, lists, and of course fiction. And the book even *looks* good.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
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Not one hundred percent convinced...,
By isala "Isabel and Lars" (London, England) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Breaking Windows: A Fantastic Metropolis Sampler (Paperback)
Fantastic Metropolis is a fantastic idea, and I am sure it will help science fiction much in the years to come. Science Fiction, as I see it, is in desperate need of some new ideas. These are people that are more inspired by Merwyn Peake than by Tolkien. They want more intelligent and stylistically advanced science fiction. Now, that is difficult, since it must also be readable. In this sampler I much preferred the editorials and non-fiction over the short stories! I feel that in their creative joy, some authors have missed out on plots or interesting stories. Science Fiction is, at the heart of it, based on plot, not characterization or style. On the other hand, modern scince fiction is deperately lacking in both. I hope that in the future the editors of Fantastic Metropolis will manage to create a viable fusion. So, my verdict is that buy it to read the interesting editorials, and to suport the work of the Fantastic Metropolis website.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
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Not Quite There,
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This review is from: Breaking Windows: A Fantastic Metropolis Sampler (Hardcover)
Breaking windows is a compendium from the Experimental Fantasy Website of FantasticMetropolis (which is now unfortunately in a stasis mode, though still accessable). The website is/was run by Luis Rodrigues in conjunction with Michael Moorcock, and was patterned after Harlan Ellison's "Dangerous Visions". It's mission was to take fantasy out of the Tolkienesque model and expand it to (and over, under, whatever) the far reaches of the genre.
The book is made up of four sections but only one of them is actual stories. The others are Essays, Interview, and Intros. I found most of the stories to be (at the least) interesting and different, but he rest of the book (about 100 of the 245 pages) to be fill. Michael Moorcock's piece about Mervyn Peake reads like a child's complaint that no one under- stands the talent of his idol; it reads more like a whine that a paen. But, you make up your own mind.
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