The Flotilla is almost a character in itself, in the latter
part of the book. Big locale in the novel.
--- Michael Robison <
miker_zspider@yahoo.com> wrote:
> 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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