if anyone's looking for scifi that has a music flavour to it then Jeff Noon's "Needle in the Groove" is pretty good.
even if it's only cos one of the streetnames in the book is called A Street Called Gerald. :) (yeah it's centred around Manchester, England) robin... > it doesnt refer specifically to Detroit, but i just got done > reading samuel delany's "Dhalgren". it takes place in a mostly > destroyed midwestern US city called "Bellona" (they name lots of > other cities surrounding it, like chicago, but never mention > detroit, which makes me think that it was at least partially > inspired by detroit), and it has to be one of the best books ive > ever read. part sci-fi, part fantasy, and just altogether a good > old mind f*ck. i highly reccomend it.
