5/8/2023 0 Comments Hamilton writer![]() "Speculative Los Angeles is a thrill ride of grand ideas and warnings. Qiouyi Lu, Stephen Blackmoore, and Denise, whose story is set in Encino. Winters, Lynell George, Duane Swierczynski, Francesca Lia Block, A. Rodriguez, Kathleen Kaufman, Charles Yu, Alex Espinoza, Ben H. The collection includes brand new short stories by Lisa Morton, Aimee Bender, Luis J. You’ll encounter twenty-first-century changelings, giant mecha robots battling on landfills, 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. In Speculative Los Angeles, some of the city’s most prophetic and diverse voices reimagine the metropolis in very different ways. ![]() So, Denise commissioned fourteen stories (including one of her own) and did exactly that. 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. Welcome to the official website of author Denise Hamilton.ĭenise’s latest project is Speculative Los Angeles, a new anthology featuring original stories by 14 different authors with speculative, sci-fi, and paranormal themes-each using distinct neighborhood settings as a launching pad.Īs an incubator of the future, Los Angeles has long mesmerized writers from Aldous Huxley to Octavia E.
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