Books I’ve Read or Am Reading — curious connections
Finished Apocalypse 2012. Shocker of a book. Is something going to happen to bring on either the arrival of a “new age” or the end of life as we know it?
Started a sci-fi:Crescent City Rhapsody, by Kathleen Ann Goonan. Do any of you know this author’s work? So far in my reading, there are two main characters, both on the run. The first is a woman who is shot to death in New Orleans, but is brought back to life through nano-rejuvination. Marie is on the run while her renewal takes place and is out for revenge on her killers. Oh, and she’s from a family of voudoun priestesses. The other character, Zeb, is a hands-on scientist who is also on the run. His reason is a bit more important for the world: an electro-magnetic pulse has put out all satellites that has caused The Silence. Zeb is the only one in the world with the data from space that points the finger to say who and why. I can’t wait to see how these two connect, which I’m sure they will, and how their issues interweave.
The structure of the book isn’t in chapters, rather in character sections titled with musical terms that might relate to a rhapsody, like Extended Riff In Past and Future Minor, followed by a sub-title of place or person and year. I flipped ahead to see later section names and found that the story covers over 25 years, the Silence beginning in 2012 and the last chapter ending in 2039.
When I opened to the first page and saw the 2012, I went, “Wow!” I’d just finished the book scaring the bejesus out of me with the predictions about 2012 in the real world. Is this what is going to happen? We lose our satellites? Goonan wrote this book in 2000. Why did she pick 2012 for the beginning of the end in this book? Spooky.