Metropolis real transfigured in the story, fanciful visions of a hallucinatory, surreal thrills and post-apocalyptic, extremely dense and godile in an anthology, edited by Peter Crowther, one of the most influential science fiction editor in circulation today, already awarded the prestigious Prix Hugo. There are four stories in order. One begins with Paul Di Filippo, author already imposed itself with 'Steampunk'. His is a linear city, in which a single large artery literally separates heaven from hell. Thanks to a setting that recovers noir atmosphere, imbued with jazz and slums, using a style of writing controlled but at the same time elegant, filled with evocative metaphors, s'ibridano the influences of matrix with fantasy themes typically own the speculative fiction. Crowther makes us partakers of the important developments of a very vital literary scene, not to be overlooked for quality and insights, all attributes equally vivid well in the second account, the work of China Miélville, cleverly inspired by the 'baroque intellectual' by Jorge Luis Borges. Wonderful development of the plot, with the beings 'imago', incarnations of the reflections behind the surface of the mirrors, which have invaded London, including streets, squares and crumbling subway stations: for humans the only possible solution is the unconditional surrender . Still valuable, even if excessively fragmented, short story by Michael Moorcock, author of 'Mother London' (and so much fantasy value), twisted a little in dystopian landscapes of New York marked by the effects of September 11. Geoff Ryman, finally, will lead us into a future in which the hospice is the elderly who terrorize young people. The reference to the city he lived in these texts as an imaginary scenario only unusual locations across ferrying more theoretical approaches on the nature of metropolitan agglomerations. Metropolis real transfigured in the story, fanciful visions of a hallucinatory, surreal thrills and post-apocalyptic, in extremely dense and godile anthology, edited by Peter Crowther, one of the most influential science fiction editor in circulation today, already awarded the prestigious Hugo Award. There are four stories in order. One begins with Paul Di Filippo, author already imposed itself with 'Steampunk'. His is a linear city, in which a single large artery literally separates heaven from hell. Thanks to a setting that recovers noir atmosphere, imbued with jazz and slums, using a style of writing controlled but at the same time elegant, filled with evocative metaphors, s'ibridano the influences of matrix with fantasy themes typically own the speculative fiction. Crowther makes us partakers of the important developments of a very vital literary scene, not to be overlooked for quality and insights, all attributes equally vivid well in the second account, the work of China Miélville, cleverly inspired by the 'baroque intellectual' by Jorge Luis Borges. Wonderful development of the plot, with the beings 'imago', incarnations of the reflections behind the surface of the mirrors, which have invaded London, including streets, squares and crumbling subway stations: for humans the only possible solution is the unconditional surrender . Still valuable, even if excessively fragmented, short story by Michael Moorcock, author of 'Mother London' (and so much fantasy value), twisted a little in dystopian landscapes of New York marked by the effects of September 11. Geoff Ryman, finally, will lead us into a future in which the hospice is the elderly who terrorize young people. The reference to the city he lived in these texts as an imaginary scenario only unusual locations across ferrying more theoretical approaches on the nature of metropolitan agglomerations.