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Award-winning author, screenwriter, and editor Gary Phillips gathers his most-thrilling, outlandish, and madcap pulp fiction in an 18-story collections that straddles the line between bizarro, science fiction, noir, and superhero classics.
List of contents
1) Demon of the Track
2) Comstock’s Edge
3) The Kwanzaa Initiative
4) Thus Strikes the Black Pimpernel
5) No Room! No Room!
6) Fangs of the Fire Serpent
7) The Darklight Gizmo Matter
8) Shaderoc the Soul Shaker
9) Grag’s Last Escape
10) Bret Khodo, Agent of C.O.D.E.
11) Enter the Silencer
12) Tobin and Gagarin
13) Matthew Henson and the Treasure of the Queen of Sheba
14) Tacos de Cazuela con Smith & Wesson
15) Desal Plant No. 9
16) I, Truck
17) Phantasmo and the Vault of Heaven
About the author
Gary Phillips has been a community activist, labor organizer and delivered dog cages. He’s published various novels, comics, short stories and edited several anthologies including
South Central Noir and the Anthony award-winning
The Obama Inheritance: Fifteen Stories of Conspiracy Noir.
Violent Spring, first published in 1994 was named in 2020 one of the essential crime novels of Los Angeles. He was also a writer/co-producer on FX’s
Snowfall (streaming on Hulu), about crack and the CIA in 1980s South Central where he grew up. Recent novels include
One-Shot Harry and
Matthew Henson and the Ice Temple of Harlem. He lives with his family in the wilds of Los Angeles.
Summary
Award-winning author, screenwriter, and editor Gary Phillips gathers his most-thrilling, outlandish, and madcap pulp fiction in an 18-story collections that straddles the line between bizarro, science fiction, noir, and superhero classics.
Foreword
- National, regional, and local publicity campaigns targeting industry and consumer publications.
- Featured author participation at multiple events, including Wondercon, Bouchercon, Los Angeles Festival of Books, and more.
- National publicity campaign targeting radio & television.
- Online outreach to 100+ book bloggers.
- Extensive social media push via blogs, posts, videos, and tweets
- Extensive outreach to mystery genre journals and blogs.
- Los Angeles launch with major media push.
