''Paper Cities: An Anthology of Urban Fantasy'' is a 2008 speculative fiction anthology edited by

Ekaterina Sedia Ekaterina Sedia (born July 9, 1970) is a Russian fantasy writer. She immigrated to the United States and attended college in New Jersey to obtain her Ph.D. Her most famous work is ''The Alchemy of Stone'', a steampunk novel that examines sexism a ...

Background

''Paper Cities: An Anthology of Urban Fantasy'' was first published in 2008 by Senses Five Press in trade paperback format. It won the 2009

World Fantasy Award The World Fantasy Awards are a set of awards given each year for the best fantasy fiction published during the previous calendar year. Organized and overseen by the World Fantasy Convention, the awards are given each year at the eponymous ann ...

for best anthology. It features 21 stories by 21 authors. One of the stories featured in the anthology,

Cat Sparks Catriona (Cat) Sparks (born 11 September 1965, Sydney, New South Wales) is an Australian science fiction writer, editor and publisher. Publishing As manager and editor of Agog! Press with her partner, Australian horror writer Rob Hood, Sp ...

's " Sammarynda Deep", won the 2008 Aurealis Award for best fantasy short story. It was also a short-list nominee for the 2009

Ditmar Award The Ditmar Award (formally the Australian SF ("Ditmar") Award; formerly the "Australian Science Fiction Achievement Award") has been awarded annually since 1969 at the Australian National Science Fiction Convention (the "Natcon") to recognise a ...

for best short story but lost to Margo Lanagan's "The Goosle" and Dirk Flinthart's "This Is Not My Story".

*Introduction by

Jess Nevins Jess Nevins (born 1966) is an American author. Nevins is the author of the ''Encyclopedia of Fantastic Victoriana'' and other works on Victoriana and pulp fiction. He is employed as a reference librarian at Lone Star College-Tomball. Comic boo ...

*"Andretto Walks the King's Way", short story by

Forrest Aguirre Forrest Aguirre (born July 29, 1969) is an American fantasy and Horror fiction, horror author, and winner of the 2003 World Fantasy Award for his editing work on ''Leviathan 3'', for which he was also a Philip K. Dick Award nominee. He recently ed ...

*"The Tower of Morning's Bones", short story by

Hal Duncan Hal Duncan (born 21 October 1971, real name Alasdair) is a Scottish science fiction and fantasy writer. His works have been listed in the New Weird genre, but he prefers not to ascribe his writings to any genre. Life Hal Duncan was born in Ki ...

*"Courting the Lady Scythe", short story by Richard Parks *"The Bumblety's Marble", short story by

Cat Rambo Cat Rambo (born November 14, 1963) is an American science fiction and fantasy writer and editor. Rambo uses they/them pronouns. Rambo was co-editor of ''Fantasy Magazine (2005), Fantasy Magazine'' from 2007 to 2011, which earned them a 2012 Wor ...

*"Promises: A Tale of the City Imperishable", short story by

Jay Lake Joseph Edward "Jay" Lake, Jr. (June 6, 1964 – June 1, 2014) was an American science fiction and fantasy writer. In 2003 he was a quarterly first-place winner in the Writers of the Future contest. In 2004 he won the John W. Campbell Award for B ...

*"Ghost Market", short story by

Greg van Eekhout Greg van Eekhout is a science fiction and fantasy writer. His "In the Late December" (2003) was nominated for the Nebula Award for Best Short Story, and his middle-grade fantasy novel ''The Boy at the End of the World'' was nominated for the 2012 ...

*" Sammarynda Deep", short story by

*"Tearjerker", short story by Steve Berman *"The Title of This Story", short story by Stephanie Campisi *"The One That Got Away", short story by

Mark Teppo Mark Teppo (born May 21, 1968) is an American author of contemporary fantasy and Science fiction. His work is strongly peppered with references to occult concepts, most commonly those of Hermeticism and Alchemy. Prior to his current tenure as a ...

*"Alex and the Toyceivers", short story by Paul Meloy *"Godivy", short story by Vylar Kaftan *"Painting Haiti", short story by Michael Jasper *"The Funeral, Ruined", short story by Ben Peek *"Down to the Silver Spirits", short story by

Kaaron Warren Kaaron Warren is an Australian author of horror, science fiction, and fantasy short stories and novels. She is the author of the short story collections ''Through Splintered Walls'', ''The Grinding House'', and ''Dead Sea Fruit''. Her short st ...

*"They Would Only be Roads", short story by Darin C. Bradley *"Taser", short story by Jenn Reese *"Somnambulist", short story by David J. Schwartz (as David Schwartz) *"The Age of Fish, Post-Flowers", short story by

Anna Tambour Anna Tambour is an author of satire, fable and other strange and hard-to-categorize fiction and poetry. Her novel ''Crandolin'' was shortlisted for the 2013 World Fantasy Award. Tambour's collection ''Monterra's Deliciosa & Other Tales &'' was pub ...

*"The Last Escape", short story by Barth Anderson *"Palimpsest", short story by Catherynne M. Valente

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