Hatrack River Writers Workshop: Dictionaries at the Ready!!! (3 of 3)

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Posted by BuffySquirrel (Member # 2780) on :

I confess I was in hot pursuit of this one when I went to the shelves.

Count Zero by William Gibson.

They set a slamhound on Turner's trail in New Delhi, slotted it to his pheromones and the colour of his hair. It caught up with him on a street called Chandni Chauk and came scrambling for his rented BMW through a forest of bare brown legs and pedicab tyres. Its core was a kilogramme of recrystallized hexogene and flaked TNT.

He didn't see it coming. The last he saw of India was the pink stucco facade of a place called the Khush-Oil hotel.

Because he had a good agent, he had a good contract. Because he had a good contract, he was in Singapore an hour after the explosion.

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Posted by Robert Nowall (Member # 2764) on :

I like all three you've posted. They grab the reader and send him into a world that's like the world we know---they're not drastic departures into the dimensions of space and time---but they're subtly alien at the same time.