Noir

Zusatztext “[K. W.] Jeter is an exhilarating writer who always seems to have another rabbit to pull out of his hat. . . . [He] accomplishes his goal of updating the genre! and he does so with commendable energy and imagination.” — The New York Times Book Review “A master of dark visions! Jeter delivers his most . . . ambitious book to date. . . . An SF equivalent! perhaps! of  The Name of the Rose. ” — Publishers Weekly “Impressive.” — Locus Informationen zum Autor K.W. Jeter Klappentext "[K. W.] Jeter is an exhilarating writer who always seems to have another rabbit to pull out of his hat. . . . [He] accomplishes his goal of updating the genre! and he does so with commendable energy and imagination."-The New York Times Book Review "A master of dark visions! Jeter delivers his most . . . ambitious book to date. . . . An SF equivalent! perhaps! of The Name of the Rose."-Publishers Weekly L.A.: the sparkling metropolis at the new center of what's left of the civilized world. Here wealthy men and women seek forbidden thrills through a system that enables them to indulge safely and anonymously in their wildest fantasies through the use of computerized simulations known as prowlers. Then a young executive at one of the the world's most powerful corporations is brutally slain and an ex-information cop named McNihil is called in to find the dead man's still "living" prowler. McNihil knows he's walking into a trap. But he wants a chance to redeem himself for a botched job that forced him into retirement years ago. Teamed with a ruthless female operative called November! McNihil is about to enter a world in which no one can be trusted and things are far worse than they seem . . . a world in which a vast conspiracy of evil is about to blur the razor-thin line between the sane safety of daylight and the dark danger of noir. "Impressive."-Locus Leseprobe One: Sex Burned a Wire At that moment, as the blue spark of sex burned a wire through his tongue, the heavens rained fire.  At that moment, all the other moments rushed inside his head.  He turned from the kiss that filled his mouth, the hot copper taste of coded flesh, and fell against the glass; the window shivered with fear and mirrored his own ghost face back at him. He knew what was happening outside the window.  That the fear was his alone, as much as the ghost and the kiss were; that the transit authorities had sent another drone aloft, over whatever city lapped around this building like a hectic gray ocean; that the Noh -flies had found the idiot projectile in their airspace--all air was theirs--and were busily devouring it, SCARF'd shards falling on the streets below and the face of anyone stupid enough to look up.  Mere coincidence, apocalyptic phenomena synch'd-up with the battery salt leaking through his teeth. This must be how women feel, thought Travelt. Not real women, but the women of ideal and dream.  Men's dreams, their dream of women's dreams.  He had felt himself go all weak at the knees, a kinesthetic cliché as much as the racing heart under his breastbone, when the soul kiss had started to eat him up.  He'd put his tongue in the other's mouth, as though his lips were the aggressor's, the conqueror's; he'd made the connection inside another's flesh, that point where electrode and neuron were one fated synapse-- And had been conquered in turn.  Battered and ravaged.  That dream of rape, in which the raped are dreaming still, in which the dreaming turn their faces upward and see their own faces above them, spread out on a luminous sky like the disintegrating airplanes above the ring of cities and the uncaring, dreaming ocean.  Where every hot bit of metal struck and hissed into steam, sharp as his own intake of breath, drifting into unlit depths and turning into adornment for dolphins' ...

Product details

• Authors: K W Jeter, K. W. Jeter, Jeter K. W.
• Publisher: Random House USA
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.09.1999
• EAN: 9780553762860
• ISBN: 978-0-553-76286-0
• No. of pages: 496
• Dimensions: 140 mm x 216 mm x 25 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Science fiction, fantasy; Science Fiction, FICTION / Science Fiction / General