The encrypted story turned out to be more involved than I thought it would be. I had a lot of fun putting this book together working with artists, graphic designers, for example. ‘I like the idea of books as artifacts, a concept that sometimes slips away from us in this electronic era. At least two or three elements of the hardcover have rarely, if ever, been attempted before in fiction. City of Saints & Madmen holds a number of unique pleasures for readers with a strong sense of play and literary adventure. The 55,000 words of new material, work from seven artists, and the subtle but important revisions to the four main novellas, make the hardcover an entirely different book from the Locus recommended trade paperback. From the vignette incorporated into the cover design to an encrypted story mischieviously embedded within the book and a major new novella, ‘The Cage’, the deluxe hardcover version of City of Saints & Madmen represents an innovative re imagining of the original trade paperback published in 2001.
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