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Imagine a fast-moving computer game set in the black-and-white environment of a 1940s detective movie and you'll begin to get some idea of the mixed metaphors that fill the air in K.W. Jeter's difficult but ultimately rewarding new futuristic thriller.
Jeter, who also writes a series of novels based on the popular Blade Runner film about apocalyptic Los Angeles, centers Noir in that same city, now a dark jewel of the dominant Pacific Rim. A detective named McNihil (yes, you got it) has had his eyes surgically altered so that everything looks like an early Bogart movie to him. "Gray newspapers with significant headlines--'Dewey Defeats Truman,''Pearl Harbor Bombed'--moldered in the gutters, or were nudged along the broken sidewalks by the same night wind that cut through McNihil's jacket," Jeter writes about the scene of a plane crash where the detective has been summoned by a corporate villain. A top young executive has been murdered, and McNihil is arm-twisted into tracking down the dead man's missing "prowler"--a computer simulation that roams the world like an electronic ghost.
Aided by a young woman called November, whose fingertips are alive with lethal magnetic currents, McNihil brings his--and Jeter's--unique noir vision to bear on a world that for all its weirdness is the ultimately believable extension of our present-day nightmares. --Dick Adler
From the Publisher
Praise for The Edge of Human, a Blade Runner novel by K.W. Jeter:
"A serious novel, well written and imaginative...It remains faithful to its roots and becomes a story Jeter can call his own."
--The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction
"Jeter fully exploits the Dickian paradoxes of illusion vs. reality, man vs. machine, that the film only hinted at."
--San Francisco Chronicle
"A really rare animal...Highly recommended for anyone looking for a good read."
--The Commercial Appeal, Memphis
"A good, fast-moving story...Jeter also plays with readers' heads the way that [Philip K.] Dick loved to."
--The Orlando Sentinel
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- PublisherMillennium
- Publication date1999
- ISBN 10 1857985966
- ISBN 13 9781857985962
- BindingPaperback
- LanguageEnglish
- Number of pages388
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