The Future Los Angeles Series (Magill’s Guide to Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature)
At a glance:
- Author: K. W. Jeter
- First Published: 1984
- Type of Work: Novels
- Type of Plot: Science fiction—future history
- Time of Work: The twenty-first century
- Setting: Los Angeles and elsewhere in Southern California
- Genres: Long fiction, Science fiction
- Subjects: North America or North Americans, United States or Americans, Future, Twenty-first century, Prostitution or prostitutes, Antiheroes, California, Los Angeles, West, U.S., Smuggling or smugglers, Cannibalism
- Locales: Los Angeles, CA, Southern California
The Plot
In Dr. Adder, a stranger offers E. Allen Limmit the chance to escape his empty life as keeper of the company brothel at the Phoenix Egg Laying Ranch. All he has to do is deliver a suitcase to Los Angeles. Limmit agrees. He is taken to the Interface, a street that separates the privileged Orange County citizens from the denizens of Rattown, the slums of the former Los Angeles. Limmit is amazed to find men pimping amputee prostitutes, most of whom were created by Dr. Adder, the man Limmit was sent to find.
Limmit wanders the Interface, trying to find Dr....
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