Dead Neon - Tales of Near-Future Las Vegas

Informationen zum Autor Todd James Pierce is associate professor of English and creative writing at California Polytechnic State University in San Luis Obispo. He is a graduate of the MFA program at UC Irvine and the PhD program at Florida State University. Pierce is the author of several books, and his work has appeared in over 80 literary journals and magazines. Jarret Keene has taught creative writing and literature courses at University of Nevada, Las Vegas. He has authored or edited several works about Las Vegas, and has published several poetry collections. Klappentext Las Vegas is considered a modern icon of excess. The authors of the fourteen stories in Dead Neon imagine Sin City in the near future, when excess has led to social, environmental, or economic collapse. Their stories range from futuristic casinos to the seared post-apocalyptic desert, to the struggle to survive in a repressive theocracy. Zusammenfassung Las Vegas is considered a modern icon of excess. The authors of the fourteen stories in Dead Neon imagine Sin City in the near future! when excess has led to social! environmental! or economic collapse. Their stories range from futuristic casinos to the seared post-apocalyptic desert! to the struggle to survive in a repressive theocracy.

Product details

• Authors: Todd James (EDT)/ Keene Pierce, Todd James Keene Pierce
• Assisted by: Jarret Keene (Editor), Todd Pierce (Editor), Todd James Pierce (Editor)
• Publisher: University of Nevada Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.09.2010
• EAN: 9780874178289
• ISBN: 978-0-87417-828-9
• No. of pages: 200
• Series: West Word Fiction; West Word Fiction; Western Literature and Fiction
• Subject: Fiction > Science fiction, fantasy