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A review by laurla
Naked City: Tales of Urban Fantasy by Ellen Datlow
---some of these arent worth reading.
- Curses / by Jim Butcher -- Dresden files -- Harry Dresden investigates how to lift a curse laid by the Fair Folk on the Chicago Cubs. i liked. "i suppose you'll expect me to believe in their existence." "they'll exist or not exist regardless of what you believe."
- How the pooka came to New York City / by Delia Sherman -- a man saves a pookas life, and the pooka follows him from ireland to america to repay the debt. i liked.
- On the slide / by Richard Bowes -- a man would rather 'slide' back in time than live his current life. it was ok.
- The Duke of Riverside / by Ellen Kushner -- an idiot scholar gets a knight protector and ends up being a duke. i didnt care for this one.
- Oblivion by Calvin Klein / by Christopher Fowler --a woman shops until she cant. something about the green man and the end of the world. odd. i didnt get it.
- Fairy gifts / by Patricia Briggs -- a vampire is called home by magic to save the Fae who freed him from a dark curse. i liked.
- Picking up the pieces / by Pat Cadigan -- a flighty sister gets unwilling rescued during the fall of the berlin wall. meh.
- Underbridge / by Peter S. Beagle -- a man, a bridge, a troll, and what not to feed it. icky ending.
- Priced to sell / by Naomi Novik -- the trials of selling real estate to supernaturals in NYC. i liked.
- The bricks of Gelecek / by Matthew Kressel -- one who destroys everything he touches including cities, meets a girl who remembers what was lost and helps it begin again. i liked.
- Weston walks / by Kit Reed -- a rich guy and a tunnel and a gal who is stealing his stuff after sex. i didnt understand it.
- The projected girl/ by Lavie Tidhar -- a kid finds a magicians journal and a girl trapped in a painting. ok.
- The way station / by Nathan Ballingrud -- a man has the city of new orleans inside him leaking out is trying to reach his daughter. a priest tries to convince him not to. i didnt get it.
- Guns for the dead / by Melissa Marr -- the newly dead Frankie Lee seeks a job in the afterlife on the wrong side of the law. i liked. "all sass and no ass."
- And go like this / by John Crowley -- everyone in the whole entire world goes to NYC and gets assigned housing and food. i didnt like because i couldnt figure out WHY they all went to one city.
- Noble rot / by Holly Black -- a dying rock star discovers that the young woman who brings him food every day has some strange appetites of her own. ok but gross.
- Daddy longlegs of the evening / by Jeffrey Ford -- horror story. a spider crawls into a boys brain and takes him over. didnt like, too gross for me.
- The skinny girl / by Lucius Shepard -- death finds a consort. meh.
- The Colliers' Venus (1893) / by Caitlín R. Kiernan -- a woman comes out of a rock and kills men in a mine. why? how? didnt like.
- King pole, gallows pole, bottle tree / by Elizabeth Bear. two men are the genii of las vegas and someone tries to take the memories from them. i liked.
- Curses / by Jim Butcher -- Dresden files -- Harry Dresden investigates how to lift a curse laid by the Fair Folk on the Chicago Cubs. i liked. "i suppose you'll expect me to believe in their existence." "they'll exist or not exist regardless of what you believe."
- How the pooka came to New York City / by Delia Sherman -- a man saves a pookas life, and the pooka follows him from ireland to america to repay the debt. i liked.
- On the slide / by Richard Bowes -- a man would rather 'slide' back in time than live his current life. it was ok.
- The Duke of Riverside / by Ellen Kushner -- an idiot scholar gets a knight protector and ends up being a duke. i didnt care for this one.
- Oblivion by Calvin Klein / by Christopher Fowler --a woman shops until she cant. something about the green man and the end of the world. odd. i didnt get it.
- Fairy gifts / by Patricia Briggs -- a vampire is called home by magic to save the Fae who freed him from a dark curse. i liked.
- Picking up the pieces / by Pat Cadigan -- a flighty sister gets unwilling rescued during the fall of the berlin wall. meh.
- Underbridge / by Peter S. Beagle -- a man, a bridge, a troll, and what not to feed it. icky ending.
- Priced to sell / by Naomi Novik -- the trials of selling real estate to supernaturals in NYC. i liked.
- The bricks of Gelecek / by Matthew Kressel -- one who destroys everything he touches including cities, meets a girl who remembers what was lost and helps it begin again. i liked.
- Weston walks / by Kit Reed -- a rich guy and a tunnel and a gal who is stealing his stuff after sex. i didnt understand it.
- The projected girl/ by Lavie Tidhar -- a kid finds a magicians journal and a girl trapped in a painting. ok.
- The way station / by Nathan Ballingrud -- a man has the city of new orleans inside him leaking out is trying to reach his daughter. a priest tries to convince him not to. i didnt get it.
- Guns for the dead / by Melissa Marr -- the newly dead Frankie Lee seeks a job in the afterlife on the wrong side of the law. i liked. "all sass and no ass."
- And go like this / by John Crowley -- everyone in the whole entire world goes to NYC and gets assigned housing and food. i didnt like because i couldnt figure out WHY they all went to one city.
- Noble rot / by Holly Black -- a dying rock star discovers that the young woman who brings him food every day has some strange appetites of her own. ok but gross.
- Daddy longlegs of the evening / by Jeffrey Ford -- horror story. a spider crawls into a boys brain and takes him over. didnt like, too gross for me.
- The skinny girl / by Lucius Shepard -- death finds a consort. meh.
- The Colliers' Venus (1893) / by Caitlín R. Kiernan -- a woman comes out of a rock and kills men in a mine. why? how? didnt like.
- King pole, gallows pole, bottle tree / by Elizabeth Bear. two men are the genii of las vegas and someone tries to take the memories from them. i liked.