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Fantastic Metropolis [September 2002] (online) The Mount: Chapter Two · Carol Emshwiller · ex 2002 Small but Significant Invasions · Lance Olsen · ss (r) Stomach: Excerpt from Novel-in-Progress Nietzsche’s Kisses · Lance Olsen · ex (r) X-Ray Dreams, 1963 · Andi & Lance Olsen · ss (r) Professional Amateurs · Brantley L. Bryant · ss Fantastic Metropolis Sep 27 2002

Fantastic Metropolis [October 2002] (online) Megabride · Dan Pearlman · ss Florida Review Jan 1990 Crimes of the American Century: A Millennial Noir · Harvey Jacobs · ss Fantastic Metropolis Oct 16 2002 A Möbius Trip · Dan Pearlman · ss Collages & Bricolages Spr 1995 Sherlock Holmes’ Last Case: 1. The Letter · Zoran Zivkovic · ex (r)

Fantastic Metropolis [November 2002] (online) Biology · Louis Phillips · ss

Fantastic Metropolis [December 2002] (online) Minton · Allan Kausch · ss (r) The Tain · China Miéville · ex PS Publishing 2002 The Fallen · Dale Bailey · ex 2002

Fantastic Metropolis [February 2003] (online) Painting Dream: Chapter Nine of Green Music · Ursula Pflug · ex 2001 Tales of the Golden Legend · Robert Freeman Wexler · ss The Third Alternative #30 2002 Ianthina · Allan Kausch · ss (r) The Cure · Lisa Tuttle · ss Light Years and Dark, ed. Michael Bishop, Berkley 1984 The Wound · Lisa Tuttle · ss Other Edens, ed. Christopher Evans & Robert Holdstock, Unwin 1987

Fantastic Metropolis [March 2003] (online) Mosquito · Richard Calder · ss Interzone Nov/Dec 1989 Toxine · Richard Calder · nv Interzone: The 4th Anthology, ed. John Clute, David Pringle & Simon Ounsley, Simon & Schuster UK 1989 Remorse Code · Allan Kausch · ss (r) Mr. Pacifaker’s House · Holly Wade Matter · ss Asimov’s Science Fiction Jul 1995 The Book of Days: A Sample · Steve Rasnic Tem · ex 2003

Fantastic Metropolis [April 2003] (online) The Etched City: Chapter 1 · K. J. Bishop · ex 2003 Lady Faraway · Minsoo Kang · vi Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet #11 2002

Fantastic Metropolis [May 2003] (online) Maldoror Abroad · K. J. Bishop · ex Fables and Reflections #4 2003 Catch · Ray Nayler · ss Crimewave #7 2003 Waiting for Rain · Tamar Yellin · ss (r) Richard Dadd in Bedlam · Alan Wall · ss Richard Dadd in Bedlam and other stories, Secker & Warburg 1999

Fantastic Metropolis [June 2003] (online) Jerusalem Poker: Prologue [Jerusalem Quartet] · Edward Whittemore · ex Holt, Rinehart & Winston 1978 Quin’s Shanghai Circus · Edward Whittemore · ex Holt, Rinehart & Winston 1974

Fantastic Metropolis [July 2003] (online) Les Géthennères: Or, Burn this Feminary · Liz Henry · ss (r) The Rapid Advance of Sorrow · Theodora Goss · ss Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet #11 2002 A Swim in the Laughing Soup · James Patrick Kelly · ss Fantastic Metropolis Jul 25 2003 The Ice Is Singing · James Patrick Kelly · ss Realms of Fantasy Apr 2003 Why the Bridge Stopped Singing · James Patrick Kelly · ss The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction Sep 1996

Fantastic Metropolis [August 2003] (online) In the Hours After Death · Jeff VanderMeer · ss City of Saints and Madmen: The Book of Ambergris, Prime Books 2002

Fantastic Metropolis [September 2003] (online) joanierules.bloggermax.com · Nick Mamatas · ss Rabid Transit: A Mischief of Rats, ed. Barth Anderson, Christopher Barzak, Alan DeNiro & Kristin Livdahl, Velocity Press 2003

Fantastic Metropolis [October 2003] (online) Banner of Souls · Liz Williams · ex (r) Hidden Camera · Zoran Zivkovic · ex (r) Move Under Ground · Nick Mamatas · ex (r) Olympic Games · Leslie What · ex (r) Shriek: An Afterword [Ambergris] · Jeff VanderMeer · ex Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town · Cory Doctorow · ex (r) Thanksgiving · Peter Crowther · ex (r) The Clown of the New Eternities · Rhys Hughes · ex (r) The Dead of Night: Dusk · Tim Lebbon · ex (r) The Shadow Year · Jeffrey Ford · ex (r) Memini · Daniel Pearlman · ex 2003

Fantastic Metropolis [December 2003] (online) Division by Zero · Ted Chiang · nv Full Spectrum III, ed. Lou Aronica, Amy Stout & Betsy Mitchell, Doubleday Foundation 1991 Night Off · Jason Erik Lundberg · ss (r)

Fantastic Metropolis [January 2004] (online) Portrait of the Emperor: An Excerpt from Kalpa Imperial · Angélica Gorodischer · ex (r)

Fantastic Metropolis [February 2004] (online) 2003: In the Dark Corner with a Drifter Named Loftus · Jack O’Connell · ss Fantastic Metropolis Feb 16 2004 Lot 12A: The Feast of the Dead Manuscript · Barth Anderson · ss New Genre Spr 2001 Kneel to the Son of Clay · Matthew Rossi · ss Fantastic Metropolis Feb 27 2004 The Fruit of the Tree Is Discord · Matthew Rossi · ss Fantastic Metropolis Feb 28 2004

Fantastic Metropolis [March 2004] (online) Olaudah Equiano Crosses the Ice · Wendy Walker · ss Fantastic Metropolis Mar 6 2004

Fantastic Metropolis [April 2004] (online) Born on the Edge of an Adjective · Christopher Barzak · ss Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet #10 2002 Circus of the Grand Design · Robert Freeman Wexler · ex Prime Books 2004

Fantastic Metropolis [May 2004] (online) Rabbit Test · Jeffrey Ford · ss (r)

Fantastic Metropolis [July 2004] (online) Details taken from magazine website. Dance at the Edge · L. Timmel Duchamp · nv Bending the Landscape: Science Fiction, ed. Nicola Griffith & Stephen Pagel, Overlook Press 1998 An Interview with L. Timmel Duchamp · Josh Lukin · iv A Quick Trip to Q-Town [Jack O’Connell] · Neddal Ayad · iv

Fantastic Metropolis [August 2004] (online) Details taken from magazine website. The Labyrinth · Catherynne M. Valente · ex Prime Books 2004 An Interview with Catherynne M. Valente · Brendan Connell · iv

Fantastic Metropolis [October 2004] (online) Details taken from magazine website. Literature Is Entertainment or It Is Nothing [Thomas Ligotti] · Neddal Ayad · iv

Fantastic Metropolis [December 2004] (online) Details taken from magazine website. The Friends of the Friends · Henry James · nv Chapman’s Magazine May 1896, as “The Way It Came” The Neurosis of Containment · Rikki Ducornet · ss The Word “Desire", Henry Holt 1997 Wormwood · Rikki Ducornet · ss The Iowa Review Sum/Fll 1996 Silling: A Sadean Mirror · Rikki Ducornet · ar The Deep Zoo: Two Essays, ed. Paul Rosenheim, Obscure Publications 2004 The Deep Zoo · Rikki Ducornet · ar The Deep Zoo: Two Essays, ed. Paul Rosenheim, Obscure Publications 2004 Rikki Ducornet: An Alchemy of Dreams and Desire · M. E. Warlick, Ph.D. · ar [Rikki Ducornet] The Virtual Anthology: “The Hell Screen” by Akutagawa Ryunosuke · Jeffrey Ford · cl [Akutagawa Ryunosuke] The Virtual Anthology: “The Man Upstairs” by Ray Bradbury · Jeffrey Ford · cl [Ray Bradbury] Encyclopedia of Heresies: Livid with Obsessions · Matthew Rossi · cl The Virtual Anthology: “The Friends of the Friends” by Henry James · Jeffrey Ford · cl [Henry James]

Fantastic Metropolis [January 2005] (online) Details taken from magazine website. The Genizah at the House of Shepher · Tamar Yellin · ex Toby Press 2005 Encyclopedia of Heresies: Pirates of the Epistemology · Matthew Rossi · cl The Virtual Anthology: “Lull” by Kelly Link · Jeffrey Ford · cl [Kelly Link] An Interview with Tamar Yellin · Zoran Živković · iv

Fantastic Metropolis [February 2005] (online) Details taken from magazine website. Encyclopedia of Heresies: The Truth and the Truth · Matthew Rossi · cl "Rise of the Swans": Doing Bird with Jeff Lint · Steve Aylett · ar [Jeff Lint] A Glob of Multicolored Chiming Vibrational Bubble Gum [Steve Aylett] · Rick Klaw · iv

Fantastic Metropolis [March 2005] (online) Details taken from magazine website. Secret Life · Jeff VanderMeer · ss Secret Life, Golden Gryphon Press 2004 Three Secret Lives · Jeff VanderMeer · ex; from forthcoming book Secret Lives (Prime Books, 2006). Encyclopedia of Heresies: Tanelorn’s Seed · Matthew Rossi · cl The Secret Lives of Important People: An Interim Report from Research-in-Progress for an Important Book of Nonfiction · Jeff VanderMeer · ar

Fantastic Metropolis [April 2005] (online) Details taken from magazine website. Encyclopedia of Heresies: Sheep to the Slaughter · Matthew Rossi · cl

Fantastic Metropolis [May 2005] (online) Details taken from magazine website. Encyclopedia of Heresies: Every Thing Possible to Be Believ’d Is an Image of Truth: Part One: The Daughter of Reflection · Matthew Rossi · cl

Fantastic Metropolis [June 2005] (online) Details taken from magazine website. Jack & Jill [from Tumbling After] · Paul Witcover · ex Eos 2005 An Interview with Paul Witcover · Jeffrey Ford · iv

Fantastic Metropolis [July 2005] (online) Details taken from magazine website. Encyclopedia of Heresies: Every Thing Possible to Be Believ’d Is an Image of Truth: Part Two: Katharoi · Matthew Rossi · cl

Fantastic Metropolis [August 2005] (online) Details taken from magazine website. Encyclopedia of Heresies: Every Thing Possible to Be Believ’d Is an Image of Truth: Part Three: The Menhir-Spearing God · Matthew Rossi · cl

Fantastic Metropolis [January, 2006] (online) Details taken from magazine website. Solis Invicti · Matthew Rossi · ss Distortions of the Artist in Space and Time: The Speculative Nature of Kazuo Ishiguro’s The Unconsoled · Geoffrey Maloney · ar [Kazuo Ishiguro]

Fantastic Novels (UK)    (about)

Fantastic Novels (UK) [(#1, 1950)] (Thorpe and Porter Ltd., 1/-, 132pp, pulp, cover by Virgil Finlay) This issue is neither numbered nor dated, nor has any datable adverts, but is believed to be the first issue. The publisher is also unclear, some sources suggest it is Pemberton’s (of Manchester) Ltd. but the magazine carries a Thorpe & Porter advert on the back. Reprint of the November 1949 (US) issue. Details supplied by Alistair Durie. 6 · What Do You Think? · [The Readers] · lc Fantastic Novels Magazine Nov 1949 10 · Minos of Sardanes [Polaris Janess] · Charles B. Stilson · na All-Story Weekly Aug 12 1916 (+2) 76 · The Living Portrait · Tod Robbins · nv All-Story Weekly Apr 5 1919 100 · The Elf-Trap · Francis Stevens · ss Argosy Jul 5 1919 114 · The White Gorilla [Van Dam] · Elmer Brown Mason · ss All-Story Weekly Jun 5 1915

Fantastic Novels (UK)    (about)

Fantastic Novels (UK) [#1 (December 1950)] (Pemberton’s (of Manchester) Ltd., 9d, 64pp+, pulp) Date based on Atlas advert. Partial reprint of the May 1949 (US) issue. Details supplied by Alistair Durie. 2 · The Eye of Balamok · Victor Rousseau · na All-Story Weekly Jan 17 1920 (+2) 39 · Devil Ritter · Max Brand · na All-Story Weekly Jul 13 1918

Fantastic Novels Magazine:    (about) Letter listings compiled by Tom Cockcroft. Publishers: The Frank A. Munsey Co.; New York: Fantastic Novels, Jul 1940 – Apr 1941. New Publications, Inc.; Chicago: Fantastic Novels, Mar 1948 – Jul 1949. New Publications, Inc.; Kokomo, IN: Fantastic Novels, Sep 1949 – Jun 1951.

Fantastic Novels

Fantastic Novels [v1 #1, July 1940] (20¢, 144pp+, trimmed pulp, cover by Finlay) 2 · The Blind Spot [Spot] · Austin Hall & Homer Eon Flint · n. Argosy All-Story Weekly May 14 1921 (+5) 142 · Monsieur De Guise · Perley Poore Sheehan · ss The Scrap Book Jan 1911

Fantastic Novels [v1 #2, September 1940] (20¢, 144pp+, trimmed pulp, cover by Paul) 6 · The People of the Golden Atom [The Scientific Club] · Ray Cummings · n. All-Story Weekly Jan 24 1920 (+5) 118 · Through the Dragon Glass · A. Merritt · ss All-Story Weekly Nov 24 1917 127 · To Edgar Allan Poe · Robert W. Lowndes · pm The Phantagraph Mar/Apr 1937 128 · The Middle Bedroom · H. de Vere Stacpoole · ss The Novel Magazine Dec 1918 132 · An Autobiography · Ray Cummings · bg Argosy Feb 8 1930 133 · Spawn of Infinitude · Edward S. Pilsworth · ss The All-Story Jun 1913 [letter from California] · Jack R. Beale · lt [letter from Massachusetts] · John W. Bell · lt [letter from New Jersey] · Richard B. Crain · lt [letter from New York State] · Gardner F. Fox · lt [letter from Massachusetts] · David Glazer · lt [letter from Illinois] · John Marshall Heaps · lt [letter from Pennsylvania] · Vaughan Ralf Heiner · lt [letter from Florida] · Joe Hudson, Jr. · lt [letter from Ohio] · Gerard Lerner · lt [2 letters from Ohio] · Joseph M. Lewandowski, Jr. · lt [letter from Ohio] · Edmund C. McFaul · lt [letter from Connecticut] · Paul H. Spencer · lt [letter from Nebraska] · D. B. Thompson · lt [letter from California] · Tom Wright · lt

Fantastic Novels Magazine Title changed from Fantastic Novels.

Fantastic Novels Magazine [v1 #3, November 1940] (10¢, 128pp+, pulp, cover by Finlay) 6 · The Snake Mother [Nicholas Graydon] · A. Merritt · n. Argosy Oct 25 1930 (+6) 112 · Song of Nimir · Robert W. Lowndes · pm 113 · Who Wants a Green Bottle? · Tod Robbins · nv All-Story Weekly Dec 21 1918 [letter] · Donald V. Allgeier · lt [letter from Texas] · James F. Autry · lt [letter from Nova Scotia, Canada] · Mrs. J. Chiasson · lt [letter from New York State] · Stanley Cogan · lt [letter from Pennsylvania] · Jack Daley · lt [letter from New York State] · Charles Hidley · lt [letter from Massachusetts] · Everett B. Ramsey · lt [letter from Illinois] · Margaret Thelland · lt [letter from Nebraska] · D. B. Thompson · lt