{"product_id":"speculative-los-angeles-paperback","title":"Speculative Los Angeles - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eDenise Hamilton\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor), \u003cb\u003eAimee Bender\u003c\/b\u003e (Contribution by), \u003cb\u003eLisa Morton\u003c\/b\u003e (Contribution by)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"A stimulating anthology of 14 futuristic L.A. fables . . . Some of the best of these tales seem illumined by the humanistic spirit of the late Ray Bradbury, poet laureate of Southern California fantasy literature.\" --\u003cem\u003eWall Street Journal\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs an incubator of the future, Los Angeles has long mesmerized writers from Aldous Huxley to Octavia E. Butler. With its natural disasters, Hollywood artifice, staggering wealth and poverty, and urban sprawl, 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, bestselling author Denise Hamilton commissioned fourteen stories (including one of her own) and did exactly that. In \u003cem\u003eSpeculative Los Angeles\u003c\/em\u003e, some of the city's most prophetic and diverse voices reimagine the metropolis in very different ways.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs with our city-based Akashic Noir Series, each story in \u003cem\u003eSpeculative Los Angeles\u003c\/em\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFeaturing brand-new stories by: Charles Yu, Aimee Bender, Lisa Morton, Alex Espinoza, Ben H. Winters, Denise Hamilton, Lynell George, Stephen Blackmoore, Francesca Lia Block, Duane Swierczynski, Luis J. Rodriguez, A.G. Lombardo, Kathleen Kaufman, and S. Qiouyi Lu.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEdgar Award finalist \u003cb\u003eDenise Hamilton\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of seven crime novels and the editor of the best-selling anthology \u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Noir\u003c\/i\u003e (which includes the Edgar Award-winning short story \"The Golden Gopher\" by Susan Straight) and \u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Noir 2: The Classics\u003c\/i\u003e. She is a former \u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e journalist, a Fulbright Scholar, a noir and sci-fi\/fantasy geek, and a proud LA native who refuses to speak only in English.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 272\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.1 x 8.2 x 5.2 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e February 02, 2021\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42729494806591,"sku":"9781617758560","price":20.34,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/6349a7739d5dd8f698f2e1119f2f453c_92e4f174-6eac-47d3-9ce9-73b56c70ed2f.webp?v=1765122398","url":"https:\/\/dhlswag.com\/products\/speculative-los-angeles-paperback","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}