10, ISBN: 9780874178357

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… Mehr…

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 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. Fiction & Literature, , Dead Neon~~ Jarret Keene, Todd Pierce~~Fiction & Literature~~9780874178357, en, Dead Neon, Jarret Keene, Todd Pierce, 9780874178357, University of Nevada Press, 10/01/2010, , , , University of Nevada Press, 10/01/2010<

ISBN: 9780874178357

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… Mehr…

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.; EPUB; Fiction > Modern & contemporary fiction, University of Nevada Press<

2010, ISBN: 9780874178357

Tales of Near-Future Las Vegas, eBooks, eBook Download (EPUB), [PU: University of Nevada Press], University of Nevada Press, 2010

ISBN: 9780874178357

; EPUB \ Mark A Radcliffe; Fiction > Modern & contemporary fiction, Bluemoose Books Ltd

2010, ISBN: 9780874178357

Tales of Near-Future Las Vegas, eBook Download (EPUB), eBooks, [PU: University of Nevada Press]