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Chargement... Midnight, water city (édition 2021)par Chris McKinney
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. pretty fantastic story. I loved doing a futuristic story with a 1940's hollywood gumshoe feel. You never find out what the main character's name is through the whole book. Everyone else arround him, sure. But never his name. Anyway, I'm looking forward to the other two books coming out later this year (2nd in the trilogy in July, 3rd in the trilogy in December). I recommend it. ( ) McKinney, Chris. Midnight, Water City. Water City No. 1. Soho Crime, 2021. Chris McKinney is not a writer known for near-future science fiction. Most of his novels have been character-driven stories about underclass life in Hawaii. In Midnight, Water City he has written a noir mystery set in a 22nd-century underwater city. The body of the world’s most famous scientist, revered for singlehandedly saving the world from a calamitous asteroid strike, has been discovered cut into small pieces. Her sometime bodyguard becomes a suspect, but he is also uniquely qualified to investigate. He is an unhappy man with a troubled marriage, traumatic memories of his violent military career, and guilt about the ruthless methods he employed protecting his client and his failure to protect her in the end. In other ways, he is not a standard noir detective. He is eighty years old, color blind, with synesthesia that lets him perceive musical sounds as colors. The synesthesia also gives him an uncanny ability to perceive a green aura around potential murder victims and murderers. This psychic ability should remind science fiction readers of Larry Niven’s Gil the Arm. The novel’s world-building is a bit sketchy but intriguing. Much of the population has moved underwater to shield itself from deadly solar flares. Society is just recovering from the panic caused by the impending asteroid strike. One detail I like is an apartment full of objects made from plastics reclaimed from the ocean. The plot is messy, but I am reminded that noir writers from Raymond Chandler to David Lynch have created successful stories whose plots made little rational sense. In the end, Midnight, Water City achieves an uneasy balance between the rational demands of near-future science fiction and the more surreal elements of its noir mystery. Four stars. aucune critique | ajouter une critique
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"2150: An unnamed police detective receives a message from Akira Kimura, the preeminent scientist and living legend who vanquished a world-ending meteor thirty years ago. As Akira's former head of security-and perhaps her only friend-he is one of the few who knows of the sacrifices that were necessary for her to complete Ascalon, the cosmic ray that neutralized the global threat. Ascalon's Scar remains emblazoned in the sky, a permanent reminder of humanity's close call with extinction. When he arrives at Akira's home and finds her methodically dismembered, he must dig into their shared past-with the help of a mysterious synesthesia that no one else knows he has-to find her killer. Through a future of underwater cities, floating suburbs, skin-dyed teenagers, and a wealth gap that has outlived a near-apocalypse, McKinney's cinematic novel is the perfect blend of dark cyberpunk and thrilling detective procedural, all while posing the ultimate question of what we are willing to sacrifice to engineer the world we want"-- Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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