Pandemonium: Stories Of The Smoke (Hardcover)

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Pandemonium: 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.

Charles 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 so 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.

Introduction: “The Nightmare City” by Christopher Fowler

“Inspector Bucket Investigates” by Sarah Lotz

“Uncle Smoke” by Archie Black

“A Dance of Life and Dust” by Aliette de Bodard

“Victory Year” by Alexis Kennedy

“The Collection” by Esther Saxey

“An Unburdening of the Soul” by David Thomas Moore

“Necropolis” by Jonathan Green

“The Knowledge” by Rebecca Levene

“Londoner” by Jenni van der Merwe

“The Unkindness of Ravens” by Glen Mehn

“The Pickwick Syndrome” by Kaaron Warren

“The Hound of Henry Hortinger” by Michelle Goldsmith

“Aye, There’s the Twist” by James Wallis

“The City of the Absent” by Charles Dickens

“A Brief History of the Great Pubs of London” by Lavie Tidhar

“Bullseye” by Sarah Anne Langton

“Cuckoo” by David Thomas Moore

“Martin Citywit” by Adam Roberts

Illustrations by Gary Northfield

Edited by Anne C. Perry and Jared Shurin