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The debut title in a new city-based anthology series featuring all-new stories with speculative, sci-fi, and paranormal themes--each using distinct neighborhood settings as a launching pad.Speculative Los Angeles is a thrill ride of grand ideas and warnings. Take a place that already defines the future of culture, add fourteen unbound minds, and you get a collection that wows the imagination like no other. --Michael Connelly, author of the best-selling Harry Bosch seriesThe problem of buying books for others can be solved by offering the equivalent of the literary box of chocolates: the anthology...For Californians, or people who just like the West Coast, there\'s Speculative Los Angeles, edited by Denise Hamilton. --Washington Post, recommended by Silvia Moreno-Garcia14 outstanding stories of weird and uncanny happenings in the City of Angels...Each story presents a fresh take on the magic and strangeness of L.A. past, present, and future, and the characters are representative of the diverse region, caught in situations ranging from surreal to chilling. Readers should snap this up. --Publishers Weekly, Starred reviewMany stories] have a distinctly gritty and postapocalyptic flavor that takes advantage of a uniquely L.A. vibe. ---Library JournalEchoing Akashic\'s popular city-specific \'Noir\' series, this first in what promises to be an intriguing new run of books looks at weirdly wonderful Los Angeles and sees changelings, dirigibles, jacaranda men, psychic death cults, robot nursemaids, a walled-in canyon for the rich, and an alternate city where Spanish land grants endured. With brand-new stories from Aimee Bender, Alex Espinoza, Francesca Lia Block, Charles Yu, Duane Swierczynski, and more. --Library Journal, Barbara Hoffert\'s Prepub AlertA Booklist Shout \'n\' Share Title to Watch (July 2020)The stories here move among all of Los Angeles\' gritty and bright corners. --Kirkus ReviewsAs 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 Speculative Los Angeles, some of the city\'s most prophetic an
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The debut title in a new city-based anthology series featuring all-new stories with speculative, sci-fi, and paranormal themes--each using distinct neighborhood settings as a launching pad.Speculative Los Angeles is a thrill ride of grand ideas and warnings. Take a place that already defines the future of culture, add fourteen unbound minds, and you get a collection that wows the imagination like no other. --Michael Connelly, author of the best-selling Harry Bosch seriesThe problem of buying books for others can be solved by offering the equivalent of the literary box of chocolates: the anthology...For Californians, or people who just like the West Coast, there\'s Speculative Los Angeles, edited by Denise Hamilton. --Washington Post, recommended by Silvia Moreno-Garcia14 outstanding stories of weird and uncanny happenings in the City of Angels...Each story presents a fresh take on the magic and strangeness of L.A. past, present, and future, and the characters are representative of the diverse region, caught in situations ranging from surreal to chilling. Readers should snap this up. --Publishers Weekly, Starred reviewMany stories] have a distinctly gritty and postapocalyptic flavor that takes advantage of a uniquely L.A. vibe. ---Library JournalEchoing Akashic\'s popular city-specific \'Noir\' series, this first in what promises to be an intriguing new run of books looks at weirdly wonderful Los Angeles and sees changelings, dirigibles, jacaranda men, psychic death cults, robot nursemaids, a walled-in canyon for the rich, and an alternate city where Spanish land grants endured. With brand-new stories from Aimee Bender, Alex Espinoza, Francesca Lia Block, Charles Yu, Duane Swierczynski, and more. --Library Journal, Barbara Hoffert\'s Prepub AlertA Booklist Shout \'n\' Share Title to Watch (July 2020)The stories here move among all of Los Angeles\' gritty and bright corners. --Kirkus ReviewsAs 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 Speculative Los Angeles, some of the city\'s most prophetic an
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