The Empty City

by Andrew Looney and Alex Brown

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1929780001
• ISBN13: 9781929780006
• Release Date: December 2002
• Publisher: Looney Labs
• Length: 152 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Now We Know Where All the Pyramids Came From!

If you've ever been entranced by those games people are playing with the little plastic pyramids, this is the book that started it all. The Empty City is a story of many things: friendship, first loves, late nights at the downtown cafe, that part of our lives which raced by so quickly and for which we'd give almost anything to return. It's also the story of Icehouse, a strange little game that ties all the characters and elements together, a game that claims to have been created by the now long-dead inhabitants of Mars. Andy Looney creates a world that seems to be halfway between reality and dream, and Alison Frane's illustrations only add to the delightful quirkiness. Roommates build time machines, the mayor holds boardgame strategy sessions, tabloids might be the most accurate media of all, and something that may or may not be an atomic bomb gets left on the doorstep. There's a weaving fever-dream quality to the setting, almost as if at any minute it would pop, like a soap bubble, leaving only our drab mundane world behind. Ignore the occasional error or stilted sentence. Remember that this book was self-published, it's a labor of love. There's a lot of the author's heart and soul poured into this book, and that will always triumph over small mechanical flaws.