Mississippi Blues

✍ Scribed by Goonan, Kathleen Ann

• Publisher: Tor Books
• Year: 1997
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 356 KB
• Edition: 1st ed
• Category: Fiction

✦ Synopsis

Amazon.com Review

Mississippi Blues is a uniquely twisted vision of a postapocalyptic future in which nanotechnology is just the most recent rung humanity has climbed in its techno-evolution. Goonan's story features a wild ride down the Mississippi to "Norleans," propelled by a nanoplague that may or may not be humanity's saving grace. Our heroine Verity rescues a motley group from metapheromonal slavery in Cincinnati, and they set off on boats and rafts to an uncertain utopia at the end of the river. On the way, they encounter everything from whirlpools to religious zealots to a terrifying little town that would be best described as the bastard child of Las Vegas and Westworld. It's a swirling, existentialist voyage with a meandering soul; weak in structure but strong in concept, with an ending that smacks of sequels to come. --Jhana Bach

From Library Journal

Goonan (The Bones of Time, LJ 3/15/96) follows up her acclaimed first novel Queen City Jazz (LJ 11/15/94), which showed how nanotechnology changed the world, with this excellent sequel. Verity travels down the river from Cincinnati to Norleans experiencing postnanotechnological America. Full of vibrant descriptions and musical analogies, this novel offers an optimistic view of the future, albeit a strange one. For most sf collections.
Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Library : Science Fiction
Universes : Nanotech Cycle [02]
Formats : EPUB
ISBN : 9780312868932