The City & the City is the title of a fantasy/weird fiction novel by British author China Miéville. It was published by Tor on 15 May 2009. In the US it was published by Del Rey Books on 26 May 2009.
The book contains fourteen short stories written between 1998 and 2005. One of them, "On The Way To The Front", is an illustrated, comic book-esque tale, while the other thirteen are standard written stories. All of the stories are set in London, with the exceptions of "Jack", set in Miéville's created world Bas-Lag, and "Foundation", the setting of which is not specified.
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Robber Bride (by Margaret Atwood)
Margaret Atwood's The Robber Bride is inspired by "The Robber Bridegroom," a wonderfully grisly tale from the Brothers Grimm in which an evil groom lures three maidens into his lair and devours them, one by one. But in her version, Atwood brilliantly recasts the monster as Zenia, a villainess of demonic proportions, and sets her loose in the lives of three friends, Tony, Charis, and Roz.
In Miami, Chili Palmer was a gangster. He’s in Hollywood now, helping his friend Harry Zimm to make a movie. But the movie business is very dangerous. A new enemy wants him out of the way and an old enemy hasn’t forgotten him.
