-----Original Message----- From: Joy Matkowski <
jmatkowski1@comcast.net> Sent: Nov 28, 2003 12:57 PM
To:
rara-avis@icomm.ca Subject: RARA-AVIS: hardboiled science
fiction
" [...] I don't like science fiction because it's so
unrealistic"
As a downwardly-mobile dame called Blanche Du Bois once
phrased it,
"I don't want realism, I want -- magic!"
"Maybe an HBSF month--in January, when I plan to have lots of
gift certificates?--can do the same. Would anybody
knowledgeable like to volunteer?"
William Gibson (*not* the "Miracle Worker" writer), Bruce
Sterling, and K.W. Jeter are always worth seeking out.
Philip K. Dick's " 'Flow My Tears,' The Policeman Said" is
one I've got a fondness for.
For a touch of silliness, too, you might try a nice
little PI parody by William F. Nolan called "Space For Hire"
(the investigator being, of course, named Space).
c.
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