Re: RARA-AVIS: Altered Carbon

From: JIM DOHERTY ( jimdohertyjr@yahoo.com)
Date: 26 Mar 2004


Mark,

Re your question below:

> 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?

Reading the early Chandler gives one an understanding of the circumstances that led to his name being used as "shorthand for hard-boiled."

JIM DOHERTY

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