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Speculative Los Angeles

edited by Denise Hamilton

"As 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 citys most prophetic and diverse voices reimagine the metropolis in very different ways."--Back cover

Antonia and the stranger who came to Rancho Los Feliz / Lisa Morton -- Detainment / Alex Espinoza -- Peak TV / Ben H. Winters -- Past the mission / Denise Hamilton -- Where there are cities, these dissolve too / S. Qiouyi Lu -- If memory serves / Lynell George -- Love, rocket science, and the mother of abominations / Stephen Blackmoore -- Purple panic / Francesca Lia Block -- Maintenance / Aimee Bender -- West Torrance 2BR 2BA w/pool and black hole / Charles Yu -- Walk of fame / Duane Swierczynski -- Jaguar's breath / Luis J. Rodriguez -- Garbo on the skids / A.G. Lombardo -- Sailing that beautiful sea / Kathleen Kaufman