Copyright

Contents

Series editors’ foreword

Acknowledgements

Introduction: genre collisions and mutations

1. Private dicks: science fiction meets detection in Gun, With Occasional Music

2. The nightmare of the local: apocalypse on the road in Amnesia Moon

3. Alice in the academy: As She Climbed Across the Table

4. Far away, so close: Brooklyn goes to space in Girl in Landscape

5. ‘We learned to tell our story walking’: Tourette’s and urban space in Motherless Brooklyn

6. Mixed media: graffiti, writing and coming-of-age in The Fortress of Solitude

7. ‘Hiding in plain sight’: reality and secrecy in You Don’t Love Me Yet and Chronic City

Conclusion

Bibliography

Index