Jeff Vorzimmer wrote:
Anyone else have any suggestions of similar books from the
time period, hardboiled crime fiction or espionage?
************* A while back we had a hardboiled/noir science
fiction month. I bought several books that were recommended
but didn't make it through many. It was a few months later
before I read Nicola Griffith's SLOW RIVER, and I just
finished Miller's CANTICLE FOR LEIBOWITZ. Although I don't
really think it's what you are looking for, it does examine
one of the major themes of the Cold War era, the potential
for nuclear holocaust. The book starts out 600 years after
the event, with mankind barely beyond Stone Age technology,
then skips another 600 years, and finally skips another 600
years, with mankind's nuclear capability fully recovered, and
with the same inevitable results. I thought he did a good job
with some of the characters and dialogue, but the plot was
predictable and there were some mystical elements that didn't
really mix well and were never resolved.
miker
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