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Posted: Tue Nov 18, 2014 1:49 pm
by michaelm
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)...
Posted: Tue Nov 18, 2014 7:32 pm
by Cagliostro
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.
Posted: Wed Nov 19, 2014 1:40 pm
by michaelm
Think American author...
Posted: Thu Nov 20, 2014 11:18 pm
by Sorus
I was thinking Storm Constantine, but she isn't American either...
Posted: Fri Nov 21, 2014 12:12 am
by Vraith
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.
Posted: Fri Nov 21, 2014 12:22 am
by Sorus
Ooh, I should have thought of that. Good guess.
Posted: Fri Nov 21, 2014 1:30 pm
by michaelm
Yep, Vraith got it! The protagonist isn't a cop though, he is a singer.
Posted: Fri Nov 21, 2014 5:02 pm
by Vraith
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.
Posted: Fri Nov 21, 2014 6:25 pm
by sgt.null
Vraith wrote: Back soon-ish.[/color]
Terminator, the novelization?
Posted: Fri Nov 21, 2014 7:53 pm
by Vraith
sgt.null wrote:Vraith wrote: Back soon-ish.[/color]
Terminator, the novelization?
Now THAT was funny. Thanks.
Posted: Fri Nov 21, 2014 8:29 pm
by Vraith
Ok. Clues:
Halloween, famous monsters [real and fictional], to say nothing of the dog...who it the main POV.
Posted: Fri Nov 21, 2014 9:31 pm
by Sorus
A Night in the Lonesome October, Zelazny
Loved that book.
Posted: Fri Nov 21, 2014 10:35 pm
by Vraith
Sorus wrote:A Night in the Lonesome October, Zelazny
Loved that book.
CORRECT! that was fast. I've recently [the last year or so] been back into a little Zelazny. I think I like better now than way back when. Will probably go back and do a lot once I work my way through Erikson's Malazan. Zel, and a trip through Silverberg's Majipoor, and the Radix Tet. That should keep me busy a while.
Posted: Sat Nov 22, 2014 1:04 am
by Sorus
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.
Posted: Sun Nov 23, 2014 11:46 pm
by StevieG
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...
Posted: Mon Nov 24, 2014 12:19 am
by Sorus
It is old (or classic, if one prefers) - not so much a mystery though.
Posted: Mon Nov 24, 2014 11:53 pm
by StevieG
OK fine, classic
The Demolished Man - Alfred Bester
Posted: Tue Nov 25, 2014 12:32 am
by Sorus
Yay! Your turn.
Posted: Wed Nov 26, 2014 3:54 am
by StevieG
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.
Posted: Tue Dec 02, 2014 5:06 am
by StevieG
OK, OK! The important item was a Mind.
