Speculative Los Angeles
(eAudiobook)

Grouping Information

Book Cover Information

Hoopla Extract Information

stdClass Object
(
    [year] => 2021
    [artist] => Ben H. Winters
    [fiction] => 1
    [coverImageUrl] => https://cover.hoopladigital.com/bsa_9781094179988_270.jpeg
    [titleId] => 14431757
    [isbn] => 9781094179988
    [abridged] => 
    [language] => ENGLISH
    [profanity] => 
    [title] => Speculative Los Angeles
    [demo] => 
    [segments] => Array
        (
        )

    [duration] => 9h 14m 0s
    [children] => 
    [artists] => Array
        (
            [0] => stdClass Object
                (
                    [name] => Ben H. Winters
                    [relationship] => AUTHOR
                )

            [1] => stdClass Object
                (
                    [name] => Lisa Morton
                    [relationship] => AUTHOR
                )

            [2] => stdClass Object
                (
                    [name] => Denise Hamilton
                    [relationship] => AUTHOR
                )

            [3] => stdClass Object
                (
                    [name] => Various Readers
                    [relationship] => READER
                )

            [4] => stdClass Object
                (
                    [name] => Judy Young
                    [relationship] => READER
                )

            [5] => stdClass Object
                (
                    [name] => Paul Boehmer
                    [relationship] => READER
                )

            [6] => stdClass Object
                (
                    [name] => Justine Eyre
                    [relationship] => READER
                )

        )

    [genres] => Array
        (
            [0] => Sci-Fi & Fantasy
        )

    [price] => 2.49
    [id] => 14431757
    [edited] => 
    [kind] => AUDIOBOOK
    [active] => 1
    [upc] => 
    [synopsis] => 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.
    [url] => https://www.hoopladigital.com/title/14431757
    [pa] => 
    [publisher] => Blackstone Publishing
    [purchaseModel] => INSTANT
)