Kill City Blues
core novel 2013 Sandman Slim
Record
| First published | 2013 |
|---|---|
| Original language |  EN |
| Work type | novel |
| Canon status | core |
| Reader rating | 4.13 (10,468 ratings, collected 2026-09-13) |
| First-edition ISBN | 9780062197610 |
| Internal chronology | 5 |
Synopsis
The fifth novel finds James Stark searching Los Angeles for a powerful, god-killing weapon he lost track of earlier in his adventures, a weapon that every other supernatural faction in the city is also racing to claim. The hunt draws him toward an abandoned, half-mythical mall known as Kill City, a refuge for the city's stranger and more dangerous fringe-dwellers. Stark's time as an unwilling ruler of Hell has left its mark on him, and the book follows how that experience has begun to reshape him from a purely vengeful fighter into someone starting to be capable of real attachment and trust, even as he is pulled into the kind of high-stakes chase that has defined his life since his escape from Hell.
Where it sits
- Universe: Sandman Slim
- Series: Sandman Slim core; position 5 of 12 in the series' recorded order
- Author: Richard Kadrey
Notes
- From the series record (Sandman Slim): Complete 12-novel urban-fantasy sequence (2009-2021) following James Stark, a magician who escaped an eleven-year exile in Hell to hunt down the people who murdered his girlfriend and sent him there, working cases across a supernatural Los Angeles. "Devil in the Dollhouse" (2012), a novella slotting between books 3 and 4, is kept out of Core as companion material, not one of the twelve main-sequence novels.
Neighbouring works
Publication order and internal chronology are tracked as two separate orderings, but they resolve to the exact same sequence for this book, so one combined line is shown instead of two identical ones.
- Reading order, within the series Sandman Slim: position 5 of 12: previous Devil Said Bang (2012) · next The Getaway God (2014)
Sources
- Wikipedia: Sandman Slim
- Fantastic Fiction: Sandman Slim
- https://kingsriverlife.com/09/21/kill-city-blues-by-richard-kadrey/
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Kadrey
- MIT Press Bookstore (edition record)
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