"Polansky walks a spectacular high wire . . . Anyone with even the slightest interest in genre fiction should be delighted by this whacked-out fantasy novel."
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Kirkus Reviews"
A marvellous, gonzo urban fantasy . . . A must read of the year."
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Civilian Reader"Daniel Polansky is one of my favorite new writers. Imagine a mash-up of
Trainspotting and
Harry Potter and you might end up with something as wonderfully gonzo as
A City Dreaming."
--David S. Goyer, cowriter of Christopher Nolan's
Dark Knight Trilogy and
Man of Steel"
A City Dreaming is maybe the most original book I've read, and easily one of the most entertaining. First-rate prose and laugh-out-loud writing. I'm pretty sure Daniel Polansky is the love child of J. K. Rowling and Kurt Vonnegut."
--Tom Isbell, author of
The Prey trilogy
"There'll be two kinds of people in this world: ones who never want to leave the New York of
A City Dreaming, and those that never want to see it. For those of us making up the former, welcome home. Daniel Polansky, and his latest work, surges like a revelation."
--Matt Fraction, Eisner Award-winning author of
Sex Criminals"This f*cking guy. He's too good to live . . . His descriptions of characters, places, motivations are both cutting and magical. His descriptions of magic itself, visceral. It's unlike any other urban fantasy I've read before. I really hate this guy."
--John Hornor Jacobs, author of the critically acclaimed
The Incorruptibles and
Southern Gods"
A City Dreaming grabbed me and didn't let me go. I'm resentful of that kind of storytelling. It makes one miss subway stops and meals and bedtimes. When Polansky weaves his next world, I'll be first in line to enter it."
--Mur Lafferty, author of
Six Wakes"Daniel Polansky's stories cannot be confined by genre. Fantasy, noir, thriller, mystery, they are merely tools he uses to construct his mad inventions. I haven't had this much fun since
Big Trouble in Little China."
--James Renner, author of
The Great Forgetting and
The Man from Primrose Lane"Daniel Polansky is what would happen if Tom Robbins and Douglas Adams got drunk at a dive bar in New York, and that is a tremendously great thing.
A City Dreaming is a rare, wondrous, playful, imaginative smorgasbord that breathes new life into urban fantasy."
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Delilah S. Dawson, author of
Wicked As They Come"Deceptively wry, visceral, and engaging, Polansky creates a view of New York that is oddly comforting."
--Lawrence M. Schoen, author of
Barsk: The Elephants' Graveyard
The incredible new fantasy from Daniel Polansky, for fans of Jim Butcher, Ben Aaronovitch and Lauren Beukes.