Drawn from the pages of pulp novels and crime stories, Rockstar’s upcoming detective game LA Noire owes plenty to the golden age of hardboiled prose. To make good on that debt, Rockstar hooked up with Mulholland Books to release an anthology of stories set in the LA Noire universe. So who’s writing? Let’s start with Joyce Carole Oates, Francine Prose, and Megan Abbott. Maybe you know them, but they’re not the only ones. One look at the whole gang is enough to see Rockstar’s playing for keeps. TIME’s Techland has the whole story.