On 10/6/05, DJ-Anonyme@webtv.netwrote:
>
> Tribe wrote:
>
> "Give Will Christopher Baer's Penny Dreadful my vote
for a cyberpunk
> novel that's more aligned with crime
fiction."
>
> Penny Dreadful is cyberpunk? Isn't it the second in
the triology that
> began with Kiss Me, Judas. Well, I read that one and
don't remember it
> being cyberpunk. Although very stylized, it seemed
ike straight noir to
> me. Is Penny Dreadful that radical a shift? How's it
different?
If I remember correctly, there were several scenes in Penny
Dreadful that entailed settings changing directly in front of
a character's eyes (I don't believe that those scene changes
had anything to do with drug induced hallucinations). Also,
the whole role-playing and/or game-playing thread gave it all
a more science-fiction feel.
I was very disappointed in Penny Dreadful because of all the
horror/sci-fi elements...not because those elements were
used, but I just didn't find that Baer used them in any
particularly interesting way. If there's something I'm
missing from Penny Dreadful, I'd love to be set straight.
Kiss Me Judas is, in my humble opinion, one of the great noir
books of the last 25 years.
It's the weakest of Baer's books, not nearly as compelling as
Kiss Me Judas. Hell's Half Acre is much better than Penny
Dreadful, but again not reaching the heights of Kiss Me
Judas.
Tribe
-- http://tribe.textdriven.com/blog Tribe's Blog
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