Description
Set in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in the 1990s and early 2000s, Neon Steel is acclaimed writer Jennifer Maritza McCauley's love letter to millennial nerd culture. Anime fans, vampires, indie rappers, robots, comic book fans, and thrill seekers find their way through the Steel City's neighborhoods and haunts. A young girl discovers an underground world of Afro Otaku who change the way she sees the city; a high school student discovers a kindred spirit in a Bomba girl; The Terminator (1984) is reimagined as a josei story featuring a purple loc'd robot; and a secret coven of vampires who hide out in Pittsburgh steel mills risk being discovered after they lose one of their own. Magical realist and neon-lit, Neon Steel faithfully follows a group of nerds and the magic that excites them, bringing to life a city and a state of being.
Author: Jennifer Maritza McCauley
Publisher: Cornerstone Press
Published: 02/17/2026
Pages: 162
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.43lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.37d
ISBN13: 9781968148232
ISBN10: 196814823X
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Visionary & Metaphysical
- Fiction | Short Stories (single author)
- Fiction | Magical Realism