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I'll add a couple of clues then as I seem to have made this a little too cryptic.

It's a book by a person who wrote a large number of sci-fi books, and but this was not one that was made into a movie (as far as I know)...
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Sounds like an Irvine Welsh book I've not read yet, but I wouldn't say he's written a large number of sci-fi books, so I'm probably off.
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Think American author...
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I was thinking Storm Constantine, but she isn't American either...

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Hmmm....there's a Philip K. Dick book that sounds like that...but the guy is actually a cop, even though he doesn't always seem to know it...
Flow my Tears the Policemen Said. That's my guess. I LOVE me some Philip K.
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Ooh, I should have thought of that. Good guess.

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Yep, Vraith got it! The protagonist isn't a cop though, he is a singer.
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michaelm wrote:Yep, Vraith got it! The protagonist isn't a cop though, he is a singer.
Oh, hell...you are right of course. Somehow [as might happen in a PKD novel] protagonist pieces slipped over from Scanner Darkly. Weird.

Now, I guess I have to try one...I'll think on it. Back soon-ish.
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Vraith wrote: Back soon-ish.[/color]
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sgt.null wrote:
Vraith wrote: Back soon-ish.[/color]
Terminator, the novelization?
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Ok. Clues:

Halloween, famous monsters [real and fictional], to say nothing of the dog...who it the main POV.
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A Night in the Lonesome October, Zelazny

Loved that book.

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Sorus wrote:A Night in the Lonesome October, Zelazny

Loved that book.
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I think I've read just about everything Zelazny wrote. Guess that makes it my turn...

A CEO plots murder in a world where the police are telepathic.

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Sounds like an old Sci-fi murder mystery! Sound familiar, I'm gonna try and think of this without looking it up. Might have a scramble through the library at home...
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It is old (or classic, if one prefers) - not so much a mystery though.

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OK fine, classic :lol:

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Yay! Your turn.

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This is a story of war between two groups, spanning galaxies, and a mission to retrieve an important item from a planet of the dead.
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OK, OK! The important item was a Mind. :D
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