The Night Mayor - Hardcover

Newman, Kim

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0881846422 ISBN 13: 9780881846423

Publisher: Carroll & Graf Pub, 1990

Synopsis

The twenty-first century's lord of crime prowls the streets in a city in which it is always two-thirty in the morning and raining and in which James Cagney is dying in a gutter and Humphrey Bogart is smoking in the dark

About this title

About the Author:

Kim Newman is a well known and respected author and movie critic. He writes regularly for Empire Magazine and contributes to The Guardian, The Times, Time Out and others. He makes frequent appearances on radio and TV. He has won the Bram Stoker, International Horror Guild, British Fantasy and British Science Fiction Awards and been nominated for the Hugo and World Fantasy Awards.

From Publishers Weekly:

This quirky first novel by the author of Nightmare Movies: A Critical History of the Horror Film Since 1968 bludgeons the reader with a slew of references to crime movies, character actors and film cliches. In futuristic England, Dreamer Susan Bishopric is summoned for Conscription and brought to Princetown Jail, where she is asked to channel her Talent (which she uses to create entertainment for Dream subscribers) toward flushing out Truro Daine, master criminal. Daine has had access to 1940s and '50s "flatties" (films) to distract him from his foul deeds, but, with a dreamset smuggled into prison, he has leeched onto Yggdrasil, the world computer, and borrows elements from the movies to Dream his own universe--in the meantime absorbing critical file space in the computer. Susan is dispatched into Daine's Dream to reshape and ultimately destroy it. Newman's sci-fi gimmicks are inadequately explained and, like the heavy-handed movie pastiche, likely to annoy mainstream readers.
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About this edition

• Publisher: Carroll & Graf Pub
• Publication date: 1990
• ISBN 10: 0881846422
• ISBN 13: 9780881846423
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 186