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Passing Strange
Contributor(s): Klages, Ellen (Author)
ISBN: 0765389525     ISBN-13: 9780765389527
Publisher: Tordotcom
OUR PRICE:   $14.39  
Product Type: Paperback
Published: January 2017
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BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Fantasy - Historical
- Fiction | Romance - Lgbt - Lesbian
Dewey: FIC
Physical Information: 0.6" H x 4.9" W x 7.9" (0.50 lbs) 224 pages
Themes:
- Sex & Gender - Lesbian
 
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Inspired by the pulps, film noir, and screwball comedy, Passing Strange is a story as unusual and complex as San Francisco itself from World Fantasy Award winning author Ellen Klages, and a finalist for the 2017 Nebula Award for Best Novella

San Francisco in 1940 is a haven for the unconventional. Tourists flock to the cities within the city: the Magic City of the World's Fair on an island created of artifice and illusion; the forbidden city of Chinatown, a separate, alien world of exotic food and nightclubs that offer "authentic" experiences, straight from the pages of the pulps; and the twilight world of forbidden love, where outcasts from conventional society can meet.

Six women find their lives as tangled with each other's as they are with the city they call home. They discover love and danger on the borders where magic, science, and art intersect.

Contributor Bio(s): Klages, Ellen: - ELLEN KLAGES is the author of the acclaimed historical novels: The Green Glass Sea, which won the Scott O'Dell Award, and the New Mexico Book Award; and White Sands, Red Menace, which won the California and New Mexico Book awards. Her story, "Basement Magic," won a Nebula Award and "Wakulla Springs," co-authored with Andy Duncan, was nominated for the Nebula, Hugo, and Locus awards, and won the World Fantasy Award for Best Novella. She lives in San Francisco, in a small house full of strange and wondrous things.