Passing Strange [Paperback]

Inspired by the pulps, film noir, and screwball comedy,Passing Strangeis a story as unusual and complex as San Francisco itself from World Fantasy Award winning author Ellen Klages, and a finalist for the 2017 Nebula Award for Best Novella

San Francisco in 1940 is a haven for the unconventional. Tourists flock to the cities within the city: the Magic City of the Worlds Fair on an island created of artifice and illusion; the forbidden city of Chinatown, a separate, alien world of exotic food and nightclubs that offer authentic experiences, straight from the pages of the pulps; and the twilight world of forbidden love, where outcasts from conventional society can meet.

Six women find their lives as tangled with each others as they are with the city they call home. They discover love and danger on the borders where magic, science, and art intersect.

ELLEN KLAGES is the author of two acclaimed historical novels:The Green Glass Sea, which won the Scott ODell Award, and the New Mexico Book Award; andWhite Sands, Red Menace,which won the California and New Mexico Book awards. Her story, Basement Magic, won a Nebula Award and Wakulla Springs, co-authored with Andy Duncan, was nominated for the Nebula, Hugo, and Locus awards, and won the World Fantasy Award for Best Novella. She lives in San Francisco, in a small house full of strange and wondrous things.

A once-invisible slice of history, filled with vibrant, non-idealized characters, and fabulous writing to boot. A must-read! Ann Leckie,New York Timesbestselling author of the Imperial Radch trilogy

A moving and genuine love story. The Washington Post

WithPassing Strange, Ellen Klages has spun a marvelously gritty tale of the bad old days, deftly weaving a tapestry from bittersweet nostalgia, magic, weirdness, romance,and the ugly truth of being queer in San Francisco at the dawn of WWII. It earns my highest compliment: l“I