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The journey of Verity across the wonderfully altered landscape of mid-America began in Queen City Jazz: "A dizzying novel that takes full advantage of the creative potential of nanotech," said The New York Times. Now it continues down the river in Mississippi Blues. Verity takes the wildest cast of characters since Philip José Farmer's Riverworld, both living and resurrected, down the river to possible salvation in New Orleans and beyond in a great SF epic.
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Mississippi Blues is a uniquely twisted vision of a postapocalyptic future in which nanotechnology is just the most recent rung humanity has climbed in its techno-evolution. Goonan's story features a wild ride down the Mississippi to "Norleans," propelled by a nanoplague that may or may not be humanity's saving grace. Our heroine Verity rescues a motley group from metapheromonal slavery in Cincinnati, and they set off on boats and rafts to an uncertain utopia at the end of the river. On the way, they encounter everything from whirlpools to religious zealots to a terrifying little town that would be best described as the bastard child of Las Vegas and Westworld. It's a swirling, existentialist voyage with a meandering soul; weak in structure but strong in concept, with an ending that smacks of sequels to come. --Jhana Bach
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"One of the more important novels of the year." --Locus
"An unforgettable vision of America transfigured by a new and utterly apocalyptic technology. If a science fiction writer's job is to conceive the inconceivable, Goonan has arrived with an immaculate version of the traditional tool-kit--and the nerve to use it hard." --William Gibson on Queen City Jazz
"A rousing hallucinatory riverboat journey from Cincinnati to New Orleans through the history and future of America, propelled by nanotechnology, crammed with wonderfully eccentric characters and melodious with classic blues lyrics." --Phyllis Gottlieb
"Should make her name well-known in science fiction circles." --Hartford Courant
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- PublisherTor Books
- Publication date1999
- ISBN 10 0312868936
- ISBN 13 9780312868932
- BindingPaperback
- Edition number1
- Number of pages512
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