Nightside City

Nightside City will die in the coming dawn -- so why is someone trying to buy up the town? A blend of hard science fiction and hard-boiled film noir detective story. 'For years, when people asked me what was my favorite of all the novels I'd written (which is, by the way, not a good question to ask- it's very much like, 'Which is your favorite of your children?'), if I answered at all, I would name Nightside City.' -from the afterword by Lawrence Watt-Evans.