The ultimate scifi noir is William Gibson's Neuromancer and
the novels that succeeded it. The world those books populate
is dark and lurid. Eveyone has to commit some kind of crime
just to stay alive. The protagonists take psychotropic drugs
so they can think as fast as their computers, and surgically
alter themselves to include disk drives. Of course, Gibson
sites Hammett, Chandler and Dick as his muses.
Patrick King
--- Eric Chambers <
nqexile@yahoo.com.au> wrote:
> --- In rara-avis-l@ yahoogroups. com,
> jacquesdebierue"
>
jacquesdebierue@yahoo.com wrote: Also, the
search
> for noir shouldn't limit itself to the mystery
and
> crime pulps. For example, there were lots
of
> noirish stories in the
> fantasy and weird tales pulps, with notable
authors
> like Donald
> Wandrei, Theodore Sturgeon, Fritz Leiber,
etc.
> Woolrich brings some of
> that to the crime and mystery story, but the
stuff
> was in the air. I
> am sure the experts on western pulps can find
noir
> examples in that
> genre as well.
>
> Funny you should say that - I 've just
reread
> Sturgeons 'More than Human' which started
me
> thinking about possible connections between
Science
> Fiction, Noir and Hardboiled.
> 'More than Human' is definitely hard-boiled,
but
> Noir it is not, because it ends on a positive
note.
> One set piece in the book es something to
Dickens
> 'Great Expectations' which I believe is
definitely
> noir. (The David Lean film definitely
is).Sturgeons
> short story 'Bianca's hands' is in Cornell
Woolrich
> territory. Are Lieber's 'Fafred and the
Grey
> Mouser' tales Sword and Sorcery Noir?
> Richard Matheson, Ray Bradbury and Robert Bloch
also
> spring to mind. For a more contempory blend of
SF
> and Noir, try Jonathan Lethem's "Gun with
occasional
> music".
>
>
>
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