Mark wrote:
But a flotilla in Snow Crash? It's been a while since I've
read it, but it was set in a futuristic city
(LA?) with walled communities and also in cyberspace. Where
was the flotilla?
*************** It's somewhere around the middle of the book,
Mark. I'm certain I've got the right novel. Before I totally
gave up I came back to it a half dozen times. I remember a
comment in the book about pirates looking for captives who
could suppress the gag instinct. Wonder what that
meant?
I made a tour through my library looking for it but I was
fairly certain I pitched it when we moved a few months back
and I didn't find it. I did, however, dig up a few other
sci-fis that could be called noir. This is all old ground (we
had a hardboiled/noir sci-fi month way back when, didn't
we?), but we go over the same thing over and over again
anyway, so what the hell. Here are the ones I can
remember:
Slow River, Nicola ??? Neverwhere, Gaiman Perdido Street
Station, Mieville Clockwork Orange, Burgess Carlucci's
Edge
I haven't read Clockwork Orange, but I don't have to since I
saw the movie. I was most impressed by Gaiman's Neverwhere.
Slow River and Carlucci's Edge amounted to little. Perdido
Street Station was absolutely fantastic until the end, when
he flushed the whole thing down the shitter with a crummy
ending.
I read another by Mieville on the power of the first
part of Perdido, but King Rat had none of the magic. That
finished Mieville for me.
Patrick King has already mentioned Gibson's Neuromancer,
which I thought was brilliant even though I am still trying
to figure out what happened at the end. I read another
half-dozen by Gibson but none came close to his magnum
opus.
I've still got a couple by Bester that I bought back when we
were doing the sci-fi month. One's The Demolished Man, or
something like that, and the other one has something about
stars in the title. One by Tim Powers that I tried to start
but couldn't manage more than a few pages.
miker
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