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Strange California

by Jaym Gates (Editor), J. Daniel Batt (Editor)

Other authors: Natania Barron (Contributor), Laura Blackwell (Contributor), Chaz Brenchley (Contributor), Armel Dagorn (Contributor), Richard Dansky (Contributor)22 more, Marion Deeds (Contributor), Meg Elison (Contributor), Spencer Ellsworth (Contributor), AV Flox (Introduction), Laura Anne Gilman (Contributor), Nancy Holder (Contributor), Ezzy G Languzzi (Contributor), S. Qiouyi Lu (Contributor), Patricia Lundy (Contributor), Nick Mamatas (Contributor), Seanan McGuire (Contributor), Melissa Monks (Contributor), D. Morgenstern (Contributor), Tim Pratt (Contributor), Loren Rhoads (Contributor), KA Rochnik (Contributor), Lance Shoeman (Contributor), E Catherine Tobler (Contributor), James Van Pelt (Contributor), Juliette Wade (Contributor), Suzanne J. Willis (Contributor), Yonatan Zunger (Introduction)

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Strange California is twenty-five tales of strangeness, lavishly illustrated, that will pull you into another world, a world where migrant girls stand up to witches who live in orange groves, where trickster magpies try to steal souls from Russian sisters in the early days of Fort Bragg, where water is both currency and predator, and Gold Rush-era ghosts wander the streets of San Francisco alongside panther ladies.This anthology developed out of a love for the complexity and diversity of the state-features reflected in both the landscape and the people that inhabit them. California sprawls across a multitude of landscapes and has amassed a history full of the strange and unusual. There are secrets in the desert. Secrets in the cities. Strange and unusual happenings in the odd, dark places of the coastal state.… (more)
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I participated in the Kickstarter campaign to publish this book and was very happy with the result. I was in a writing workshop with one of the authors and loved her work and wanted to support it, but there are many well-known sf writers included here, and a variety of styles - from horror to lyrical fairy tale to noirish realism with an unexpected twist. I enjoyed it very much. ( )
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Gates, JaymEditorprimary authorall editionsconfirmed
Batt, J. DanielEditormain authorall editionsconfirmed
Barron, NataniaContributorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
Blackwell, LauraContributorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
Brenchley, ChazContributorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
Dagorn, ArmelContributorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
Dansky, RichardContributorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
Deeds, MarionContributorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
Elison, MegContributorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
Ellsworth, SpencerContributorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
Flox, AVIntroductionsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
Gilman, Laura AnneContributorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
Holder, NancyContributorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
Languzzi, Ezzy GContributorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
Lu, S. QiouyiContributorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
Lundy, PatriciaContributorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
Mamatas, NickContributorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
McGuire, SeananContributorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
Monks, MelissaContributorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
Morgenstern, D.Contributorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
Pratt, TimContributorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
Rhoads, LorenContributorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
Rochnik, KAContributorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
Shoeman, LanceContributorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
Tobler, E CatherineContributorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
Van Pelt, JamesContributorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
Wade, JulietteContributorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
Willis, Suzanne J.Contributorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
Zunger, YonatanIntroductionsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
Dara, GalenCover artistsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
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Anthology contains:
  • The great Tarantula migration of 1972 / Seanan McGuire
  • Unsettlers of the Yerba Buena / Armel Dagorn
  • Of webs and windows in Pescadero / Natania Barron
  • Guardian of the Golden Gate / Loren Rhoads
  • Magpie's curse / Marion Deeds
  • Vines dig deep / Laura Anne Gilman
  • Tommy bones and a packet of earth / Suzanne J. Willis
  • All this'll by yours / Lance Shoeman
  • A sea monster in the bathtub / Tim Pratt
  • The Kodiak bell / Nick Mamatas
  • From something emerging / S. Qiouyi Lu
  • Uncanny valley / Chaz Brenchley
  • The one thing I can never tell Julie / Laura Blackwell
  • The panther lady's incredible true tale of horror! / K.A. Rochnik
  • #Whiteknight vs. #Megadisruptor / Richard Dansky
  • Five dollars for a ticket / James Van Pelt
  • If it were meant to last / Juliette Wade
  • The coffin birth / Patricia Lundy
  • Heartsong / D. Morgenstern
  • In loving memory / Meg Elison
  • Dreamcatcher / Nancy Holder
  • Five tales from the aqueduct / Spencer Ellsworth
  • Naranjas inmortales / Ezzy G. Languzzi
  • Salt in her hollows / E. Catherine Tobler
  • The hanging tree's shade / Melissa Monks
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Strange California is twenty-five tales of strangeness, lavishly illustrated, that will pull you into another world, a world where migrant girls stand up to witches who live in orange groves, where trickster magpies try to steal souls from Russian sisters in the early days of Fort Bragg, where water is both currency and predator, and Gold Rush-era ghosts wander the streets of San Francisco alongside panther ladies.This anthology developed out of a love for the complexity and diversity of the state-features reflected in both the landscape and the people that inhabit them. California sprawls across a multitude of landscapes and has amassed a history full of the strange and unusual. There are secrets in the desert. Secrets in the cities. Strange and unusual happenings in the odd, dark places of the coastal state.

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