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The debut title of a new city-based anthology series featuring stories with speculative, sci-fi, and paranormal themes.

The 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.

​​​​​​"14 writers explore the fantastic in short stories that crisscross LA county, taking readers into alternate pasts, supernatural presents and dystopian futures...Speculative Los Angeles shows the breadth of worlds that can be created inside Los Angeles."
--Los Angeles Daily News

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Introduction

Part I: Changelings, Ghosts, and Parallel Worlds
"Antonia and the Stranger Who Came to Rancho Los Feliz" by Lisa Morton (Los Feliz)
"Detainment" by Alex Espinoza (El Sereno)
"Peak TV" by Ben H. Winters (Culver City)
"Past the Mission" by Denise Hamilton (Encino)

Part II: Steampunks, Alchemists, and Memory Artists
"Where There Are Cities, These Dissolve Too" by S. Qiouyi Lu (La Puente)
"If Memory Serves" by Lynell George (Echo Park)
"Love, Rocket Science, and the Mother of Abominations" by Stephen Blackmoore (Pasadena)

Part III: A Tear in the Fabric of Reality
"Purple Panic" by Francesca Lia Block (Studio City)
"Maintenance" by Aimee Bender (Miracle Mile)
"West Torrance 2BR 2BA w/Pool and Black Hole" by Charles Yu (West Torrance)

Part IV: Cops and Robots in the Future Ruins of LA
"Walk of Fame" by Duane Swierczynski (Hollywood)
"Jaguar's Breath" by Luis J. Rodriguez (Angeles National Forest)
"Garbo on the Skids" by A.G. Lombardo (Downtown Los Angeles)
"Sailing That Beautiful Sea" by Kathleen Kaufman (Century City)

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