Geek News: L.A. Noire: The Collected Stories
Now this is an interesting tie-in:
In honor of L.A. Noire, Rockstar Games and Mulholland Books have teamed up to create a collection of short stories that celebrate detective fiction and the genre’s contemporary masters. Readers will enjoy eight original short fiction stories, many of which revisit the characters and cases in the game, providing a new spin to tell the tales of emotionally torn protagonists, depraved schemers and ill-fated victims.
With original short fiction selections by Lawrence Block, Duane Swierczynski, Joe R. Lansdale, Jonathan Santlofer, Joyce Carol Oates, Francine Prose, Megan Abbott, and Andrew Vachss, these stories expand upon the world of L.A. Noire.
It’s no secret that I’m a huge fan of film noir/old time-y detective pulp fiction. I like video games too, but I tend to have less time for them these days (though I do make the time when something piques my interest, even if it’s sometimes years after the release date). So needless to say I’ve been excited about L.A. Noire since a more video game savvy friend pushed the first trailers my way.
It’s great to see Rockstar really making the push to tie L.A. Noire to its conceptual roots, and I’m happy to see they’re doing it with Mulholland Books (an imprint of Little, Brown and Company focused on publishing suspense books, with their first titles to be released this Spring).
An except from the first story from L.A. Noire: The Collected Stories— “The Girl” by Megan Abbott— is available on the site right now. Unfortunately, it’s only about a page, but it’s a pretty good page. I’m looking forward to more.
The full version of “The Girl” will be available online and as a PDF download soon, and more stories will be released up until the game’s May 17th launch date. L.A. Noire: The Collected Stories will be available June 6th as a eBook from all major retailers. There seem to be no plans for a physical edition, so I guess this is truly pulp for the digital age.
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