Recommendations: Neo-noir book theme.
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I’ve not really encountered this category. Not that I recall however I am really enjoying Carnival Rows theme and wondered if there are any other books out there that are similar to the feel for this setting?
Thank ya!
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I haven't seen Carnival Row, so I can't make a direct comparison, but China Meiville's The City & The City was a wonderful bit of hardboiled fiction in a fantastical setting. (There's a BBC adaptation, but I haven't actually seen that either.)
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You may like Simon Green's Nightside books.
Saying the quiet parts out loud since 1996.
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Until you realize that every third page you come across the phrase "and it was the easiest thing in the world."
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@Rinel said in Recommendations: Neo-noir book theme.:
Until you realize that every third page you come across the phrase "and it was the easiest thing in the world."
It's been a LONG TIME since I read them, but
authors do get hung up on certain words/terms it is true.
I've used the word 'quibble' in like, five conversations today.
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@Auspice said in Recommendations: Neo-noir book theme.:
authors do get hung up on certain words/terms it is true.
So it goes.
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@insomniac7809 said in Recommendations: Neo-noir book theme.:
@Auspice said in Recommendations: Neo-noir book theme.:
authors do get hung up on certain words/terms it is true.
So it goes.
To quote literally every character on literally every page of literally every book Steven Erikson has written:
"Alas."
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@Rinel If someone says "thews"--particularly if they're steely--you're reading Howard pastiche.
If anything is "eldritch," "squamous," or "cyclopean," you're reading Lovecraft pastiche.
If a hired crook is referred to as a "gunsel," you're reading Hammett pastiche, and almost certainly Hammett pastiche written by someone who doesn't bother cracking open a dictionary.
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Titanshade - In a fantasy world with 80s era technology Titanshade was once the energy capital of the empire, fantastically wealthy despite being in the ass end of nowhere, thriving in a frozen waste thanks to the city having been built on the body of a dead god. Unfortunately the oil wells have dried up, along with the jobs that industry created, and times are tough in Titanshade. When an ambassador from a group who hope to revivify Titanshade's fortunes with windmills turns up violently murdered it's up to good cop nobody trusts Detective Carter and the mollenkampi (imagine 90% human, 10% stag beetle) rookie who has been assigned as his partner to solve the case before the city erupts in violence.
The Grand Dark - The war is over and the citizens of Lower Proszawa while away their days partying, drinking, fucking and doing drugs. Whatever it takes to ignore that they live in a police state, that automatons are putting people out of work and that they may very well have lost the last war, but are still gearing up for another. Largo's a morphia-addicted bike courier who route is about to put him into a world of shit.
All Cyberpunk - Do you like questions of identity and/or humanity in the face of high technology? Extreme differences between the haves and have nots? A dark setting where trust and hope are in short supply? Then you might enjoy every cyberpunk novel, movie or tv show.
maximum craveability
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Rock on! Ty for the recommendations!
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@TheOnceler said in Recommendations: Neo-noir book theme.:
All Cyberpunk - Do you like questions of identity and/or humanity in the face of high technology? Extreme differences between the haves and have nots? A dark setting where trust and hope are in short supply? Then you might enjoy every cyberpunk novel, movie or tv show.
Someone reminded me that Max Headroom was a thing. We agreed that it was Cyberpunk but it was much more satire than noir.
Also that we missed it quite a lot.
