Dead Neon: Tales of Near-Future Las Vegas Contributor(s): Pierce, Todd (Editor), Keene, Jarret (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0874178282 ISBN-13: 9780874178289 Publisher: University of Nevada Press OUR PRICE: $18.00 Product Type: Paperback Published: October 2010 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Science Fiction - Collections & Anthologies |
Dewey: FIC |
LCCN: 2010014698 |
Series: West Word Fiction |
Physical Information: 0.47" H x 5.64" W x 8.45" (0.52 lbs) 200 pages |
Themes: - Locality - Las Vegas, Nevada - Geographic Orientation - Nevada - Cultural Region - Western U.S. |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: Las Vegas is considered a modern icon of excess. It offers every imaginable extreme of greed, pleasure, and despair, all supported by technology that enhances fantasy and allows residents and visitors alike to forget reality and responsibility. The authors of the fourteen stories in Dead Neon imagine Sin City in the near future, when excess has led to social, environmental, or economic collapse. Their stories range from futuristic casinos to the seared post-apocalyptic desert, from the struggle to survive in a repressive theocracy to the madness of living in a world where most life forms and all moral codes have vanished. Dead Neon explores the possible future of America by examining the near future of Las Vegas. The authors, all either Vegas-based or intimately familiar with the city, capture its unique rhythms and flavor and probe its potential for evoking the fullest range of the human spirit in settings of magic, horror, and despair. |