Speculative Los Angeles

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Call Number: Science Fiction / Speculative Los Angeles
On Shelf At: Downtown Library

Location & Checkout Length	Call Number	Checkout Length	Item Status
Downtown 2nd Floor 4-week checkout	Science Fiction / Speculative Los Angeles	4-week checkout	On Shelf

Antonia and the stranger who came to Rancho Los Feliz (Los Feliz, CA) / Lisa Morton -- Detainment (El Sereno, CA) / by Alex Espinoza -- Peak TV (Culver City, CA) / by Ben H. Winters -- Past the mission (Encino, CA) / by Denise Hamilton -- Where there are cities, these dissolve too (La Puente, CA) / S. Qiouyi Lu -- If memory serves (Echo Park, CA) / by Lynell George -- Love, rocket science, and the mother of abominations (Pasadena, CA) -- Purple panic (Studio City, CA) / by Francesca Lia Block -- Maintenance (Miracle Mile, CA) / by Aimee Bender -- West Torrance 2BR 2BA w/pool and black hole (West Torrance, CA) / by Charles Yu -- Walk of fame (Hollywood, CA) / by Duane Swierczynski -- Jaguar's breath (Angeles National Forest, CA) / by Luis J. Rodriguez -- Garbo on the skids (Downtown Los Angeles, CA) / by A.G. Lombardo -- Sailing that beautiful sea (Century City, CA) / by Kathleen Kaufman.
"As an incubator of the future, Los Angeles has long mesmerized writers from Philip K. Dick to Aldous Huxley. With its natural disasters, Hollywood artifice, staggering wealth and poverty, urban sprawl, and diversity, one can argue that Los Angeles is already so weird, surreal, irrational, and mythic that any fiction emerging from this place should be considered speculative. So, best-selling author Denise Hamilton commissioned some stories and did exactly that. In Speculative Los Angeles, fourteen of the city's most prophetic voices reimagine the city in very different ways. In these pages, you'll encounter twenty-first-century changelings, dirigibles plying the suburban skies, black holes and jacaranda men lurking in deep suburbia, beachfront property in Century City, walled-off canyons and coastlines reserved for the wealthy, psychic death cults, robot nursemaids, and an alternate LA where Spanish land grants never gave way to urbanization. As with our city-based Akashic Noir Series, each story in Speculative Los Angeles is set in a distinct neighborhood filled with local color, landmarks, and flavor. Since the best speculative fiction provides a wormhole into other worlds while also commenting on our own, that is exactly what you'll find here. Featuring brand-new stories by: Aimee Bender, Lisa Morton, Alex Espinoza, Ben H. Winters, Denise Hamilton, Lynell George, Stephen Blackmoore, Francesca Lia Block, Charles Yu, Duane Swierczynski, Luis J. Rodriguez, A.G. Lombardo, Kathleen Kaufman, and S. Qiouyi Lu"-- Provided by publisher.

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