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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.… (más)
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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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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