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Speculative Los Angeles

By others, Denise Hamilton, Lisa Morton, Aimee Bender, Alex Espinoza, Ben H. WintersNarrated by Roxanne Hernandez, Kate Orsini, Paul Boehmer, Janina Edwards, various narrators, Justine Eyre, John Rubinstein, Judy Young, Gabrielle de Cuir, Stefan Rudnicki

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Length9h 14m

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The debut title of a new city-based anthology series featuring stories with speculative, sci-fi, and paranormal themes As an incubator of the future, Los Angeles has long mesmerized writers from Philip K. Dick to Aldous Huxley. With its natural disasters, Hollywood artifice, staggering wealth and poverty, urban sprawl, and diversity, 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 some stories and did exactly that. In Speculative Los Angeles, fourteen of the city’s most prophetic voices reimagine the city in very different ways. In this audiobook, you’ll encounter twenty-first-century changelings, dirigibles plying the suburban skies, black holes and jacaranda men lurking in deep suburbia, beachfront property in Century City, walled-off canyons and coastlines reserved for the wealthy, psychic death cults, robot nursemaids, and an alternate LA where Spanish land grants never gave way to urbanization. As with our city-based Akashic Noir Series, each story in Speculative Los Angeles is set in a distinct neighborhood filled with local color, landmarks, and flavor. Since the best speculative fiction provides a wormhole into other worlds while also commenting on our own, that is exactly what you’ll find here. Featuring brand-new stories by: Aimee Bender, Lisa Morton, Alex Espinoza, Ben H. Winters, Denise Hamilton, Lynell George, Stephen Blackmoore, Francesca Lia Block, Charles Yu, Duane Swierczynski, Luis J. Rodriguez, A. G. Lombardo, Kathleen Kaufman, and S. Qiouyi Lu

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Rating★★★★ 3.8 (158)

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GenreScience Fiction, General Fiction

Length9 hrs 14 mins

Narrated byRoxanne Hernandez, Kate Orsini, Paul Boehmer, Janina Edwards, various narrators, Justine Eyre, John Rubinstein, Judy Young, Gabrielle de Cuir, Stefan Rudnicki

FormatAudiobook

Publish dateFeb 2, 2021

LanguageEnglish