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The City of a Thousand Gods
Just finished reading The City of a Thousand Gods (Sam's Dot), Marge Simon & Malcolm Deeley's novel-in-vignettes, over the weekend. Featuring thirty illustrations by Simon -- in color! -- this elegant and intriguing fantasy demonstrates what the small press does best. Combining dreamlike prose narratives, poetic interludes, and jewel-like bits of art at the beginning of each new chapter, it offers a reading experience which suggests as much as it tells plainly.
Chronicling the lifespan of a fantastic metropolis in little over one hundred pages sounds unlikely, but The City of a Thousand Gods manages this easily. Simon and Deeley's individual vignettes -- many amounting to prose poems -- and characters interweave as the timeline progresses, which left me with the feeling of having read (or imagined) a far more comprehensive tale.
Fans of Clark Ashton Smith, Dunsany, or well-illustrated fantasy in general should check this one out.
Chronicling the lifespan of a fantastic metropolis in little over one hundred pages sounds unlikely, but The City of a Thousand Gods manages this easily. Simon and Deeley's individual vignettes -- many amounting to prose poems -- and characters interweave as the timeline progresses, which left me with the feeling of having read (or imagined) a far more comprehensive tale.
Fans of Clark Ashton Smith, Dunsany, or well-illustrated fantasy in general should check this one out.