San Francisco has long been a favorite science fiction setting onscreen — believe Star Trek ’s Starfleet Command , or the recent Planet of the Apes celluloid . Now , a new comic anthology , Sci - Fi San Francisco , wreak SF - set high-risk fabrication to the Thomas Nelson Page , and we ’ve got a sneak peek at one of its entries .
The book is edited by former longtime io9 staffer Lauren Davis , herself an creative person and Bay Area resident . The 20 opprobrious - and - white comic it contains , from an regalia of talented artists and writers ( full listhere ) , tinge on an array of subjects that connect into San Francisco ’s current culture , like this one : “ When their rent in their version of San Francisco gets too gamey , a mates hires an interdimensional tangible estate agent . ” That said , they can be moderately oecumenical , too : “ In the distant future tense , humans have become the city ’s lower class , enduring the verbal insult of affluent robots ; ” and “ A Caterpillar - get it on wrestler wake up in a distant future where he becomes the champion of a race of hyper - evolved feline . ”
Sci - Fi San Francisco is running a Kickstarter to help with printing costs . Learn more about that here , and get a sample of what you could expect from the ruined labor by checking outJonas Madden - Connor ’s “ The Malware Falcon ” — a dramatic play on Dashiell Hammett ’s classic San Francisco noir taradiddle The Maltese Falcon — which Davis describes as a “ super creepy-crawly noir - homage about a extortionist who is able-bodied to delete people ’s digital identities . ”
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