'Aliens have taken the place of angels' - NP: Gibson

[snappydresser]

I'll second the recomendation for The Stars My Destination, a.k.a. Tiger Tiger for you Brits. It works as straight sf, but it's also full of over-the-top satirical goodness.

"Basement Christians!!!" (spit)

Besides which, it's the only sf novel I can think of that cops chops from Tristam Shandy.

YOPJ


  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Rcfchess at aol.com 
  To: monropolitan at yahoo.com ; ghetta_outta at hotmail.com ; horvathg at delfin.klte.hu ; pynchon-l at waste.org 
  Sent: Thursday, July 21, 2005 9:33 PM
  Subject: Re: 'Aliens have taken the place of angels' - NP: Gibson


  For multileveled visionary science fiction WAY before its time, have any of you read Alfred Bester's "The Stars My Destination"?! (& much of his other stuff, espec. The Demolished Man, is great as well)

  RF


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