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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.
List of contents
IntroductionPart I: Changelings, Ghosts, and Parallel Worlds"Antonia and the Stranger Who Came to Rancho Los Feliz" by Lisa Morton ( Los Feliz)
"Detainment" by Alex Espinoza ( El Sereno)
"Peak TV" by Ben H. Winters ( Culver City)
"Past the Mission" by Denise Hamilton ( Encino)
Part II: Steampunks, Alchemists, and Memory Artists"Where There Are Cities, These Dissolve Too" by S. Qiouyi Lu ( La Puente)
"If Memory Serves" by Lynell George (Echo Park)
"Love, Rocket Science, and the Mother of Abominations" by Stephen Blackmoore ( Pasadena)
Part III: A Tear in the Fabric of Reality"Purple Panic" by Francesca Lia Block (Studio City)
"Maintenance" by Aimee Bender (Miracle Mile)
"West Torrance 2BR 2BA w/Pool and Black Hole" by Charles Yu (West Torrance)
Part IV: Cops and Robots in the Future Ruins of LA"Walk of Fame" by Duane Swierczynski (Hollywood)
"Jaguar's Breath" by Luis J. Rodriguez ( Angeles National Forest)
"Garbo on the Skids" by A.G. Lombardo (Downtown Los Angeles)
"Sailing That Beautiful Sea" by Kathleen Kaufman ( Century City)
About the author
Edgar Award finalist
Denise Hamilton is the author of seven crime novels and the editor of the best-selling anthology
Los Angeles Noir (which includes the Edgar Award-winning short story "The Golden Gopher" by Susan Straight) and
Los Angeles Noir 2: The Classics. She is a former
Los Angeles Times journalist, a Fulbright Scholar, a noir and sci-fi/fantasy geek, and a proud LA native who refuses to speak only in English.
