Series
Metatropolis
Jay Lake, Ken Scholes, Elizabeth Bear, Karl Schroeder, Tobias S. Buckell, John Scalzi, Mary Robinette Kowal & Seanan McGuire · 9 novellas · 2 novelettes · 7 short stories · 4 anthologies · 2008–2014
Metatropolis is a shared-world science fiction anthology series created by John Scalzi with Elizabeth Bear, Tobias S. Buckell, Jay Lake, and Karl Schroeder, imagining how city life might be rebuilt, and reimagined, after industrial civilization collapses. Originally released as linked audio collections before later print editions, the series expanded across further volumes such as Cascadia and Green Space, each adding new authors and stories set in the same near-future world.
Summary by Loreful, from public sources
The order the books came out.
Best read in the order they were published.
Map
Metatropolis at the centre, its books fanned around what holds them. Pick anything for its details, and zoom out for similar series in orbit — the reading order above lists the same books as text.
Stats
By decade
- 2000s6
- 2010s16
Shape
9 novellas · 2 novelettes · 7 short stories · 4 anthologies
8 authors
reads like:science fictionecological collapsebig citynear futuredarkadult
Mood
Grim and intense: 85% of this series' placed works, the catalog's 46%.
this series · the catalog · one dot = one book13 of 22 works carry a tone
Edges of the map
- METAtropolis: Cascadiadarkest
- To Hie from Far Cileniabrightest
- METAtropolis: Green Spacecalmest
- Utere Nihil Non Extra Quiritationem Suismost intense