The Crying of Lot 49
I should really let Joel do the talking here. But since I'm well keen, here's a copy of the cover...
To kickstart things too, there was lots of chat last night about books this reminded us of, and books it inspired. Would love to hear what those were again, since I was into my wine by then and so not paying due care and attention.
Am SO glad bookclub is revived.
Iso. xx
posted by Isobel @ 1:13 pm
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My suggestion was for William Gibson's Neuromancer, partly for the reference to Maas (a company name) and partly because it's ace. Even if you don't particularly like sci-fi it's worth reading - the man more or less invented the concept of cyberspace (back in the early eighties) and has a really interesting concept of what an internet-based society might look like, as well as one of the best explorations of AIs and virtual reality. Plus one of my favourite opening lines ever - 'the sky above the port was the colour of television, tuned to a dead channel'.
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