{"product_id":"speculative-los-angeles-1","title":"Speculative Los Angeles","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe 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.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"A stimulating anthology of 14 futuristic L.A. fables...Some of the best of these tales seem illumined by the humanistic spirit of the late Ray Bradbury, poet laureate of Southern California fantasy literature.\"\u003cbr\u003e--\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eWall Street Journal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\" \u003ci\u003eSpeculative Los Angeles\u003c\/i\u003e] is a swath of tales that are both wildly imaginative and emotionally grounded, speculations that not only imagine our possible futures but illuminate the collective anxieties of our unsettled and unsettling present.\"\u003cbr\u003e--\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eSpeculative Los Angeles\u003c\/i\u003e is a thrill ride of grand ideas and warnings. Take a place that already defines the future of culture, add fourteen unbound minds, and you get a collection that wows the imagination like no other.\"\u003cbr\u003e--\u003cb\u003eMichael Connelly\u003c\/b\u003e, author of the best-selling Harry Bosch series\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"The problem of buying books for others can be solved by offering the equivalent of the literary box of chocolates: the anthology...For Californians, or people who just like the West Coast, there's \u003ci\u003eSpeculative Los Angeles\u003c\/i\u003e, edited by Denise Hamilton.\"\u003cbr\u003e--\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eWashington Post\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e, recommended by Silvia Moreno-Garcia\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"14 writers explore the fantastic in short stories that crisscross LA county, taking readers into alternate pasts, supernatural presents and dystopian futures...\u003ci\u003eSpeculative Los Angeles\u003c\/i\u003e shows the breadth of worlds that can be created inside Los Angeles.\"\u003cbr\u003e--\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Daily News\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"The 14 narratives Hamilton has gathered present us with a vision of Los Angeles refracted, grounding the fantastic in the real.\"\u003cbr\u003e--\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eAlta Journal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"14 outstanding stories of weird and uncanny happenings in the City of Angels...Each story presents a fresh take on the magic and strangeness of L.A. past, present, and future, and the characters are representative of the diverse region, caught in situations ranging from surreal to chilling. Readers should snap this up.\"\u003cbr\u003e--\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e, Starred review, Pick of the Week \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs 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 an\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Akashic Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39328642531428,"sku":"9781617758645","price":22.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/suomalainen-test.myshopify.com\/products\/speculative-los-angeles-1","provider":"Suomalainen Test","version":"1.0","type":"link"}