In A Kid Named Lost in Death City, Ockham Robotics is retrospectively traced to “a kid in a garage in East Death.” In Slain Hero, D.X. jokes that a large sum could buy half the district, especially after a chemical spill involving heavy metals, radium and uranium.
Function
East Death condenses two familiar Southern Californian myths into one place: the garage-born technology empire and land devalued by environmental hazard.