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widow of opportunity
Feb. 20th, 2009 08:27 amLong-term readers will remember the noirish novella I wrote in 1994 called "The Perfect Gun", which used the lyrics of the still-awesome band MC 900ft Jesus as a plot-point. Some might even remember talk of turning it into a novel, Widow of Opportunity, about a PI unravelling a science fictional plot in a far-future city dressed-up to look like the twentieth century.
Well, that title has fallen by the wayside, but the impetus to pursue that story has never faded. And finally it's going to see print.
Here's an excerpt. At the end of the excerpt is the name of the book. Why am I being so coy? Because the connection between this story and the one it's now part of might seem a little unlikely. But when you take out MC 900ft Jesus and insert a certain early-80s electro pioneer, it starts to make sense...
"The sky changed no less than three times on the way to the detective's office."
(Here and here are two other excerpts from the same novel.)
Well, that title has fallen by the wayside, but the impetus to pursue that story has never faded. And finally it's going to see print.
Here's an excerpt. At the end of the excerpt is the name of the book. Why am I being so coy? Because the connection between this story and the one it's now part of might seem a little unlikely. But when you take out MC 900ft Jesus and insert a certain early-80s electro pioneer, it starts to make sense...
"The sky changed no less than three times on the way to the detective's office."
(Here and here are two other excerpts from the same novel.)
