Re: (313) OT:Detroit SCI FI

2003-03-06 Thread robin pinning
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 specifical

Re: (313) OT:Detroit SCI FI

2003-02-23 Thread Lester Kenyatta Spence
On Sat, 22 Feb 2003, Kent williams wrote: > Coming off the stunningly beside-the-point thread on IDM about gay electronica > in which I just participated, here's another one: > > I read science fiction novels all the time, always have, probably always > will. It's up there on my list of grand obs

Re: (313) OT:Detroit SCI FI

2003-02-23 Thread Dan Sicko
no no ... "New Detroit." As if we should give up and start over from scratch. :) -d On Saturday, February 22, 2003, at 06:53 PM, logic7 wrote: RoboCop was set in Detroit.

RE: (313) OT:Detroit SCI FI

2003-02-22 Thread logic7
well... it's not a novel, but RoboCop was set in Detroit. Fot that matter, so was The Crow (which isn't exactly sci-fi, but so what). -Original Message- From: Kent williams [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, February 22, 2003 12:36 PM To: 313 list Subject: (313) OT:Detr

Re: (313) OT:Detroit SCI FI

2003-02-22 Thread Thomas D. Cox, Jr.
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 leas

(313) OT:Detroit SCI FI

2003-02-22 Thread Kent williams
Coming off the stunningly beside-the-point thread on IDM about gay electronica in which I just participated, here's another one: I read science fiction novels all the time, always have, probably always will. It's up there on my list of grand obsessions along with electronic music. In fact I freq