New Salman Rushdie Book Inspired by Video Games

[Robin Landseadel]

Looks spurious to me -- Isn't this about "Haroun & the Sea of  
Stories"? Also, the writing style/quality is a bit bit below middle- 
school level, wouldn't you say? A touch of the old Idiocracy, eh? No  
Midnight's Children?  No Booker? No "Booker of Bookers"? And aren't   
the time and phase settings of this little essay torqued way out of  
the usual tolerances?

http://www.amazon.com/Luka-Fire-Life-Salman-Rushdie/dp/0679463364

Guess not.

AP?

Wot the hell?

Anyway:

	1
	The Terrible Thing That Happened on the Beautiful Starry Night

	There was once, in the city of Kahani in the land of Alifbay, a
	boy named Luka who had two pets, a bear named Dog and a
	dog named Bear, which meant that whenever he called out
	'Dog!' the bear waddled up amiably on his hind legs, and when
	he shouted 'Bear!' the dog bounded towards him wagging his
	tail. Dog the brown bear could be a little gruff and bearish at
	times, but he was an expert dancer, able to get up on to his hind
	legs and perform with subtlety and grace the waltz, the polka,
	the rhumba, the wah-watusi and the twist, as well as dances
	from nearer home, the pounding bhangra, the twirling ghoomar
	(for which he wore a wide mirror-worked skirt), the warrior
	dances known as the spaw and the thang-ta, and the peacock
	dance of the south. Bear the dog was a chocolate Labrador,
	and a gentle, friendly dog, though sometimes a bit excitable
	and nervous; he absolutely could not dance, having, as the
	saying goes, four left feet, but to make up for his clumsiness he
	possessed the gift of perfect pitch, so he could sing up a storm,
	howling out the melodies of the most popular songs of the day,
	and never going out of tune. Bear the dog and Dog the bear
	quickly became much more than Luka's pets. They turned into
	his closest allies and most loyal protectors, so fierce in his
	defence that nobody would ever have dreamed of bullying him
	when they were nearby, not even his appalling classmate Rats-
	--, whose behaviour was usually out of control. . .

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704206804575467840843038812.html

Sounds lovely, I'm all in.

On Oct 10, 2010, at 6:46 AM, Dave Monroe wrote:

> http://www.gamepolitics.com/2010/10/09/new-salman-rushdie-book-inspired-video-games


	Salman Rushdie's latest book, Luka and the Fire of Life, was
	inspired by the world of video games, according to the author.
	Rushdie is best known for the 1998 book, The Satanic Verses,
	which brought the author big trouble. He was forced into hiding
	in England for over a decade after Iranian leader Ayatollah
	Khomeini issued a 1989 religious edict ordering Muslims to kill
	the him.

	Rushdie's book a lot less controversial; he told the Associated
	Press that he wrote the book for his 13-year-old son. The book,
	which releases this week, is a magical adventure. Rushdie said
	that he is writing his memoirs and has no plans yet to write
	another novel.

	Source: AP

On Oct 10, 2010, at 6:46 AM, Dave Monroe wrote:

> http://www.gamepolitics.com/2010/10/09/new-salman-rushdie-book-inspired-video-games