New York: Bantam Books / Spectra, (1994) dj. Hardcover - Novel set in the near future, in Los Angeles in the 21st century, a land where death has been eradicated, thanks to nanotechnology, and so life is cheap. Every major city has a Necroville, or "City of the Dead," the segregated, walled ghetto where the dead sleep, eat and live, off-limits to living humans, until they have paid off the debt they incurred to be resurrected. 277 pp. Dust jacket art by Stephen Youll.