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Welcome to Pacific City
Welcome the the sixth SFFWorld.com anthology, bringing together fifteen stories of heroism and villainy in a city of millions on the Oregon coast! Yesterday, it didn't exist. Today, our authors have brought it to life. Tomorrow... who knows...
WELCOME TO PACIFIC CITY is a new shared world project, establishing a home for a range of heroic and villainous characters to rival Gotham or Metropolis. Here you'll find origin stories, thrills and spills, psychos and saviours, laughs and lamentations! Headlined by crowd-pleasing genre authors Matthew Hughes and Tansy Rayner Roberts, and joined by thirteen new and established writers from around the world, our contributors are defining Pacific City one story at a time:
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THE GIFT OF GABBY - Matt Hughes
We start in the past, when the seeds of a future megalopolis are sown by a silver-tongued devil with a wily plan.
PURRFECT CRIMINAL - Tansy Rayner Roberts
Returning to the present, we are thrust straight into an all-action fight for survival - but which Pacific City is this exactly?
THERE ARE DOORS - Jennifer Baumer
Welcome to the Pacific City Centre for the Criminally Insane - but who's going to fly over this cuckoo's nest?
HIS TRAIL OF CINDERS - Jeremy Megargee
When the trials of the modern day just won't stop piling up, maybe the straw that breaks the camel's back will be a plastic one...
THE CONGREGATION - P. J. Richards
Sometimes everyone needs a place where they can go to feel safe, to take shelter from the world, but where do you go to escape from yourself?
THE WITCHCRAFT - Gil Williamson
When masterminding a city-wide criminal enterprise, it pays to know what the future has in store...
UNTITLED SUMMER BLOCKBUSTER IN 3D - Lance Tooks
The Incredibles taught us it's a dangerous temptation, but it's not just supervillains who enjoy a good ranty monologue!
HONOR'S JUST A WORD - Wilson Geiger
We all know that there's no honor among thieves - but sorcery? That's another matter...
OVER WATER, UNDER SURVEILLANCE - Daniel Ausema
In a city of millions there are bound to be some people who don't - or don't want to - fit in. But where can they go to find a place of their own, and will society allow them to?
STUDENT OF CATASTROPHE - Lydia Hall
Sometimes all a girl needs is a nice, quiet fortress of solitude to study for college in. And a better sense of time-keeping too, that would be REALLY helpful...
A TALE FROM LOGBURN - Victor G. Espinosa
Two very different brothers walk home at night through Pacific City's most notorious neighborhood - little knowing their paths are about to diverge in the most absolute way.
MECHANIC'S LIEN - Joseph Lopez
One wears a suit of armour. One is shrouded in shadow. Does anyone reveal their true self more clearly than when they hide behind a mask?
INVICTUS - James Sullivan
An ordinary guy meets an ordinary girl, on an ordinary date that take and extra-ordinary turn - and then things take a turn for the worse...
DEAL WITH THE DEVILS - Andrew Leon Hudson
One man's urban creativity is another man's social menace - but when activist-graffiti artists come into conflict, rivalry quickly gains a nasty edge, and the stakes begin to rise.
PARK LIFE - Igor Ljubuncic
And closing out the collection, meet the hero a bustling, gas-guzzling city needs - fighting a villain that only an out-of-control automotive industry deserves!
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Edited by Andrew Leon Hudson and N. E. White, WELCOME TO PACIFIC CITY is the answer to the question "Where do you go when quaint, quiet little hamlets like Tokyo, London, Mumbai and NYC just don't give you a tingle any more?"
Come and see what it has to offer...
WELCOME TO PACIFIC CITY is a new shared world project, establishing a home for a range of heroic and villainous characters to rival Gotham or Metropolis. Here you'll find origin stories, thrills and spills, psychos and saviours, laughs and lamentations! Headlined by crowd-pleasing genre authors Matthew Hughes and Tansy Rayner Roberts, and joined by thirteen new and established writers from around the world, our contributors are defining Pacific City one story at a time:
---
THE GIFT OF GABBY - Matt Hughes
We start in the past, when the seeds of a future megalopolis are sown by a silver-tongued devil with a wily plan.
PURRFECT CRIMINAL - Tansy Rayner Roberts
Returning to the present, we are thrust straight into an all-action fight for survival - but which Pacific City is this exactly?
THERE ARE DOORS - Jennifer Baumer
Welcome to the Pacific City Centre for the Criminally Insane - but who's going to fly over this cuckoo's nest?
HIS TRAIL OF CINDERS - Jeremy Megargee
When the trials of the modern day just won't stop piling up, maybe the straw that breaks the camel's back will be a plastic one...
THE CONGREGATION - P. J. Richards
Sometimes everyone needs a place where they can go to feel safe, to take shelter from the world, but where do you go to escape from yourself?
THE WITCHCRAFT - Gil Williamson
When masterminding a city-wide criminal enterprise, it pays to know what the future has in store...
UNTITLED SUMMER BLOCKBUSTER IN 3D - Lance Tooks
The Incredibles taught us it's a dangerous temptation, but it's not just supervillains who enjoy a good ranty monologue!
HONOR'S JUST A WORD - Wilson Geiger
We all know that there's no honor among thieves - but sorcery? That's another matter...
OVER WATER, UNDER SURVEILLANCE - Daniel Ausema
In a city of millions there are bound to be some people who don't - or don't want to - fit in. But where can they go to find a place of their own, and will society allow them to?
STUDENT OF CATASTROPHE - Lydia Hall
Sometimes all a girl needs is a nice, quiet fortress of solitude to study for college in. And a better sense of time-keeping too, that would be REALLY helpful...
A TALE FROM LOGBURN - Victor G. Espinosa
Two very different brothers walk home at night through Pacific City's most notorious neighborhood - little knowing their paths are about to diverge in the most absolute way.
MECHANIC'S LIEN - Joseph Lopez
One wears a suit of armour. One is shrouded in shadow. Does anyone reveal their true self more clearly than when they hide behind a mask?
INVICTUS - James Sullivan
An ordinary guy meets an ordinary girl, on an ordinary date that take and extra-ordinary turn - and then things take a turn for the worse...
DEAL WITH THE DEVILS - Andrew Leon Hudson
One man's urban creativity is another man's social menace - but when activist-graffiti artists come into conflict, rivalry quickly gains a nasty edge, and the stakes begin to rise.
PARK LIFE - Igor Ljubuncic
And closing out the collection, meet the hero a bustling, gas-guzzling city needs - fighting a villain that only an out-of-control automotive industry deserves!
---
Edited by Andrew Leon Hudson and N. E. White, WELCOME TO PACIFIC CITY is the answer to the question "Where do you go when quaint, quiet little hamlets like Tokyo, London, Mumbai and NYC just don't give you a tingle any more?"
Come and see what it has to offer...
270 pages, Kindle Edition
Published December 25, 2018
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Andrew Leon Hudson
22 books24 followersAndrew Leon Hudson is a technical writer by day, and is technically a writer by night as well. An Englishman resident in Barcelona, Spain, his short fiction has been published in a variety of genre anthologies and zines, most recently in Triangulation: Dark Skies and Cossmass Infinities. He is co-author of the swashbuckling alt-hist novel Archipelago, and co-editor of the SFFWorld.com anthology series. Anything else you've heard is speculation at best. For links and news, visit AndrewLeonHudson.Wordpress.com
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February 28, 2019
For the first time, I received a free copy of a book in return for an honest review. Hooray! My opinion means something to someone! :-)
Welcome to Pacific City is an anthology of tales of the Fantastic. Taking place in an unnamed City in the Pacific Northwest, these stories deal with characters who share in common the possession of a superpower. That seems to be the theme of the book. The superpower could be the gift of flight, of shape-shifting, or even something as simple as the gift of persuasive speech.
The stories cover all aspects of life with a superpower. In some stories life with a superpower is just as good as you might hope for. You get to do good things, the world around you becomes a better place, and everyone lives happily ever after. In other stories, a superpower is as much a weight around your neck as it is the wings that make you fly. And in still other stories, your superpower is also your super weakness.
Speaking personally I tend to lean towards hard science fiction, not fantasy. But a little fantasy now and then Never hurt anyone. I'm glad I read this book.
Welcome to Pacific City is an anthology of tales of the Fantastic. Taking place in an unnamed City in the Pacific Northwest, these stories deal with characters who share in common the possession of a superpower. That seems to be the theme of the book. The superpower could be the gift of flight, of shape-shifting, or even something as simple as the gift of persuasive speech.
The stories cover all aspects of life with a superpower. In some stories life with a superpower is just as good as you might hope for. You get to do good things, the world around you becomes a better place, and everyone lives happily ever after. In other stories, a superpower is as much a weight around your neck as it is the wings that make you fly. And in still other stories, your superpower is also your super weakness.
Speaking personally I tend to lean towards hard science fiction, not fantasy. But a little fantasy now and then Never hurt anyone. I'm glad I read this book.
January 9, 2019
Only read the first story because I am a Matthew Hughes fan. I am also pretty fond of superhero stories so I was a little disappointed that this story only laid a basic groundwork for the founding of Pacific City and really didn't get into the super-heroics or any of the rest of it.
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