Invisible Cities: Great Imagined Cities
Wednesday, November 14, 2012
Earlier this week we listed some of your favourite imaginary cities - today, we’re looking at the imagined ones.
This is by no means an exhaustive list. With a lot of help from the internet, we've started the ball rolling - but this is just scratching the surface.
Which are your favourite imagined cities? Please share them in the comments!
The discussion continues this Saturday at Foyles with Mark Charan Newton, Tom Pollock and Kate Griffin chatting about urban fantasy. Grab your tickets now!
Alexandria:
Jon Courtenay Grimwood’s Arabesk series
Berlin:
Robert Harris’s Fatherland
Philip Kerr’s March Violets
Cape Town:
Lauren Beukes’ Moxyland
Mike Nicol’s Payback, Killer Country and Black Heart
Dublin:
James Joyce’s Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Indianapolis:
Maurice Broaddus’ King Maker
Johannesburg:
Lily Herne’s The Army of the Left (not out yet, but the rest of the Deadlands series is!)
Lauren Beukes’ Zoo City
Greg Marinovich and Joao Silva’s The Bang-Bang Club (non-fiction, but hey...)
Las Vegas:
Tim Powers’s Last Call
John D. MacDonald’s The Empty Trap
London:
Tom Pollock’s The City’s Son
Angela Carter’s work
Kate Griffin’s The Madness of Angels and Stray Souls
Ben Aaronovitch’s The Rivers of London
Peter Ackryod's Hawksmoor
Charles Dickens's work
Mike Carey’s The Devil You Know
Philip Reeve’s Mortal Engines
Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World
Nick Harkaway’s Angelmaker
Neil Gaiman’s Neverwhere
Susannah Clarke’s Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell
China Miéville’s Kraken
Los Angeles:
Jay Russell’s Celestial Dogs
Christa Faust’s Money Shot
James Ellroy’s LA Quartet
Manchester:
Jeff Noon’s Vurt, Pollen and Automated Alice
Mexico City:
Carlos Fuentes’ Vlad
New Orleans:
Poppy Z. Brite’s Lost Souls and Drawing Blood
James Lee Burke’s work
Andrei Codresciu’s Mon Amour
New York:
Paul Auster’s The New York Trilogy
Maria Headley’s The Year of Yes
Robert Chamber’s “The Repairer of Reputations”
The Wild Cards series
Paris:
Sarah Lotz’s Pompidou Posse
George Orwell’s Down and Out in Paris and London
Pierre Pevel’s Dragon Arcana (and the preceding books)
Georges Simenon’s work
Rome:
Sophia McDougall’s Savage City
Lindsey Davis's work
Robert Graves’ I, Claudius
San Francisco:
Richard Paul Russo’s Carlucci series
William Gibson’s Mona Lisa Overdrive
Armistead Maupin’s Tales of the City
Savannah:
John Berendt’s Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
Tokyo:
David Mitchell’s Number9dream
Haruki Murakami’s IQ84
Vancouver:
Douglas Coupland’s Girlfriend in a Coma
Venice:
Michael Dibdin’s Dead Lagoon
Jon Courtenay Grimwood’s Assassini series
Vienna:
Jonathan Carroll's work
Tim Powers’s The Drawing of the Dark
Washington, DC:
William Blatty’s The Exorcist
George Pelecanos’s work
Christopher Farnsworth’s Blood Oath
Huge thanks to:
@GavReads, @tomhpollock, @ActuallyAisha, @gmehn, @SlGrey, @Shaina_Jade, @jeffnoon, @scriptopus, @AquilaRift (plus selections from Anne, Bex and Jared!)