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...DAN VINING......................... Los Angeles, 2025. A brutal drought throughout the West has plunged Los Angeles into a new state of crisis. Traffic congestion has forced all emergency services — cops, EMTs, even fire trucks — into the air.
Born in Philadelphia, the son of a Navy gunnery officer, grew up in Virginia, Key West, San Diego, and Daytona Beach. University of Florida at Gainesville, alternately an English major/Journalism major/English major, studying fiction with Smith Kirkpatrick and Harry Crews, poetry with Lawrence Hetrick.
“Thriller writer Dan Vining ( Among the Living) deftly combines mystery and dystopia in NightSun. Set in 2025 Los Angeles, this world features a severe drought, cheap energy and traffic so bad that emergency personnel have taken to the sky.
Dan Vining, author of The Next and The Quick, is back with a new novel titled NightSun (Vireo/Rare Bird Books) and blends science fiction and noir into a Dystopian narrative.
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Dan Vining began his writing career as a screenwriter on various film and television projects, most between the years of 1985 and 1998. In 2004 his first book was published, a novel titled The Quick, that kicked off a series in the supernatural urban noir genre.
Dan Vining. Vireo, $25.95 (320p) ISBN 978-1-945572-64-7. In the drought-stricken Los Angeles of 2025, the setting for this meandering crime novel from Vining (Among the...
Dan Vining has worked as a screenwriter, newspaper reporter, and writer and editor at Rolling Stone. He was a Stegner Fellow in poetry at Stanford University, where he also taught.
