Title: The Underbelly
Title Record # 1766062
Author: Gary Phillips
Date: 2010-08-00
Type: SHORTFICTION
Length: novella
Language: English
Current Tags: near future (1), noir (1), politics (1), magic (1) Add Tags
Author: Gary Phillips
Date: 2010-08-00
Type: SHORTFICTION
Length: novella
Language: English
Note: A long novella with an estimated word count of around 38,000, this was first published at fourstory.org, which site closed down in 2012, then claiming to have been online for five years.
Synopsis: The protagonist "must deal with the impact of gentrification; take-no-prisoners community organizers; an unflinching cop from his past in Vietnam; an elderly sexpot out for his bones; a lusted-after magical skull; chronic-lovin' knuckleheads" (from the publisher's web-site).
There's not only the magical skull of a shaman but the setting also seems to be a Los Angeles of the near future as the political circumstances and some technical gagdets imply (plus: the books mentioned are almost exclusively speculative in content).
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Current Tags: near future (1), noir (1), politics (1), magic (1) Add Tags
Publications
Title | Date | Author/Editor | Publisher/Pub. Series | ISBN/Catalog ID | Price | Pages | Format | Type | Cover Artist | Verif |
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The Underbelly Plus "But I'm Gonna Put a Cat on You" Outspoken Interview | 2010-08-00 | Gary Phillips | PM Press (Outspoken Authors #3) | 978-1-60486-206-5 | $12.00?$: US dollar |
154+ [1] |
tp?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep. |
chap | Robin Doyno |