Description
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.

Reviews
“This is an interesting and important book. It blends serious literary intentions
with what have been typically called genre concerns to make a collection that
really speaks to contemporary fears in our culture.” - Adam Johnson, author of Parasites Like Us

"As a collection of short stories, Dead Neon is thrilling, fantastic, and mysterious all at the same time. The 14 authors that have contributed to this collection have done an amazing job at describing a future where things are very different, but also strikingly familiar." - Straylight Magazine

"Dead Neon is both a thrilling and confrontational read." - Casinoonline (click here for the full review)

Contents
Chris Niles, “Sin’s Last Stand”; Vu Tran, “Kubla Khan”;
Lori Kozlowski, “Nuclear Wasted Love Song”; Gail Travis Regier, “Glonze”; Kim Idol, “Coyotes”; Andrew Kiraly, “Your Recent Acquisitions in the Neonesque (Microfables)”; Bliss Esposito, “Kirby and the Portal to Hell”; Felicia Campbell, “4/18”; Jaq Greenspon, “Mirrors and Infinity”; Bryan Dietrich, “Gray Matters”; Peter Magliocco, “Monsieur Dombo in Glitter Town”; C. J. Mosher, “A Girl and Her Cat”; P Moss, “Time Machine”; K. W. Jeter, “Bones”