Status Updates From Damned Right (Black Ice Books)

Also: has there ever been a more idiotic book blurb in the history of blurbage? Seriously: “Los Angeles lies ahead of him, as it lies ahead of us all.” ROTFLMAO

If Crash and Ask the Dust had a baby, it might look like this. Oh wait, I didn’t like either of those books. 🧐

You used to hear a lot about time capsules but they're out of fashion now. Probably because everyone thought that everything everyone else put in them was stupid. So let's just go out to any stretch of the L.A. freeway, scoop up two hundred and forty yards' worth of detritus, and lock that up in a titanium orb for five thousand years. That'll tell 'em everything they ever wanted to know.

How can you be sure you're really in Los Angeles when you finally get there? A double-walled fortress defended on all sides by false cities. Rogue cities. Ghost-L.A.s with the real city hiding somewhere behind a screen of deceptor-cities. How many people come aiming for the center, only to bounce off? Or bog down and get shunted off to some secondary satellite city. Stuck on the periphery of what's really real.