Metatropolis

Five original tales set in a shared urban future—from some of the hottest young writers in modern SF

A strange man comes to an even stranger encampment...a bouncer becomes the linchpin of an unexpected urban movement...a courier on the run has to decide who to trust in a dangerous city...a slacker in a "zero-footprint" town gets a most unusual new job...and a weapons investigator uses his skills to discover a metropolis hidden right in front of his eyes.

Welcome to the future of cities. Welcome to Metatropolis.

More than an anthology, Metatropolis is the brainchild of five of science fiction's hottest writers—Elizabeth Bear, Tobias Buckell, Jay Lake, Karl Schroeder, and project editor John Scalzi—-who combined their talents to build a new urban future, and then wrote their own stories in this collectively-constructed world. The results are individual glimpses of a shared vision, and a reading experience unlike any you've had before.

John Scalzi's debut novel, Old Man's War, was a finalist for the Hugo Award for Best Novel, as were his novels The Last Colony and Zoe's Tale. Scalzi's other novels include Agent to the Stars. The Android's Dream. and The Ghost Brigades. In 2006, he won the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer. His weblog, The Whatever (whatever.scalzi.com), is one of the longest-running and most widely read journals on the Internet; in 2009, he won a Hugo Award for Your Hate Mail Will Be Graded, a collection of writing from the site. John Scalzi lives in Ohio with his wife and daughter.