METAtropolis is a series of science fiction audiobook collections. In 2008, Audible.com released the audiobook anthology METAtropolis, edited by John Scalzi and featuring short fiction in a shared world created by Scalzi, Elizabeth Bear, Tobias Buckell, Jay Lake, and Karl Schroeder. METAtropolis was planned from the beginning to be released as an audio anthology prior to any print edition. The audiobook featured the voices of Battlestar Galactica actors Michael Hogan, Alessandro Juliani and Kandyse McClure. In 2009 Subterranean Press released a limited edition print run of METAtropolis, which was subsequently published by Tor in a standard hardcover edition, in 2010. In 2009 METAtropolis received nominations for the Audie Award for Original Work and the Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation, Long Form. In 2012 the Audie Award for Original Work was given to METAtropolis: Cascadia. In 2015 METAtropolis: The Wings We Dare Aspire was a finalist for the Endeavour Award (for the best book by a writer from the Pacific Northwest). Several stories of the series were selected for various "Best of" and other anthologies. METAtropolis series 2008: METAtropolis: The Dawn of Uncivilization Jay Lake,"In the Forests of the Night" Tobias Buckell,"Stochasti-city" Elizabeth Bear,"The Red in the Sky is Our Blood" John Scalzi,"Utere nihil non extra quiritationem suis" Karl Schroeder, "To Hie from Far Cilenia" 2010: METAtropolis: Cascadia Jay Lake, "The Bull Dancers" Mary Robinette Kowal, "Water to Wine" Tobias S. Buckell, "Byways" Elizabeth Bear, "Confessor" Karl Schroeder, "Deodand" Ken Scholes, "A Symmetry of Serpents and Doves" 2013: METAtropolis: Green Space "Rock of Ages", by Jay Lake "Green and Dying", by Elizabeth Bear "The Desire Lines", by Karl Schroeder "Midway Bells & Dying Breeds", by Seanan McGuire "Tensegrity", by Tobias S. Buckell "Forest of Memories", by Mary Robinette Kowal "Let Me Hide Myself in Thee", by Ken Scholes 2014: METAtropolis: The Wings We Dare Aspire Foreword, by Kevin J. Anderson Introduction, by Steve Feldberg "In the Forests of the Night", by Jay Lake "The Bull Dancers", by Jay Lake "A Symmetry of Serpents and Doves", by Ken Scholes "Rock of Ages", by Jay Lake "Let Me Hide Myself in Thee", by Ken Scholes The stories from METAtropolis-1 are set in the cities of a shared near future postapocalyptic world, whose common setting was worked out by the contributors together. Unlike most postapocalyptic tales, the ones in the anthology are optimistic: from the chaos of a collapsed civilization a better way