Thanks to the two Bills for your comments. I think I'll
pass.
Jim,
I thought your class dealt with the early Chandler. How does
that engage the question of why it is always Chandler's name
that is dropped in reviews of SF books with noir/hardboiled
overtones? William Gibson got it a lot. One blurb of Michael
Marshall Smith's Spares described it as combining Raymond
Candler and Robert Heinlein, another as "might have been
created by Robert B Parker [Chandler at one remove] and
Wiliam Gibson as they chewed the fat at Philip K Dick's
place." Pat Cadigan gets compared to Chandler a lot,
too.
I'm sure it's nothing more than that Chandler has become
shorthand for hardboiled for lazy reviewers, particularly
those more familiar with SF than CF. (Similarly, I probably
overuse PK Dick comparisons in the opposite direction.)
Mark
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