Marcia Muller, though perhaps again only "marginally
hard-boiled" writes a view of San Francisco that reflects the
influence of the counterculture and its legacy in the area.
"Trophies and Dead Things," though there's a little too much
yammering about "what the sixties meant" (the book came out
in the early 90s when I recall there was a lot of that going
around), has a good story that deals with these themes,
without giving too much away. I haven't read her more recent
books, but she's still writing them, and I imagine a recent
book about SF would address the high-tech boom and bust and
gentrification of a lot of traditional areas (Muller's early
90s books already reflect some of this). Not sure about
contemporary writers who address the "gritter" side of the
bay area, I'd be interested in suggestions. I just bought a
collection of Hammett stories (name escapes me but it's a new
edition and has a fedora on the front) so I guess there's a
lot of old SF in that.
Carrie
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