The City, Not Long After - Softcover

Murphy, Pat

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0553283707 ISBN 13: 9780553283709

Publisher: Spectra, 1990

Synopsis

Jax and Danny-Boy, scrambling to get by in a near-future San Francisco ravished by plague, become fellow artists in their united struggle to stop a tyrannical general from taking over

About this title

About the Author:

Pat Murphy has won numerous awards for her science fiction and fantasy writing, including the Nebula Award, the Philip K. Dick Award, and the World Fantasy Award. When not writing science fiction, she writes for the Exploratorium, San Francisco's museum of science, art, and human perception. She lives in San Francisco.

From Publishers Weekly:

The intersecting spheres of dreams and earthly passions that marked Murphy's recent novel The Falling Woman and her novelette "Rachel in Love" (both Nebula Award winners in 1988) continue in this story of a depopulated San Francisco. In the wake of a devastating worldwide plague, the handful of artists who have transformed the city with mirror mazes, self-propelled clockwork creatures and a coat of blue paint on the Golden Gate Bridge find that the city itself collaborates in unpredictable ways, from rains of flowers--or frogs--to the appearance of angels. When megalomaniac General Miles threatens the city, newcomer Jax works with painter Danny-boy, mechanical genius The Machine and others on a pacifist version of guerrilla warfare. Too often this novel recalls the studiously surreal antiwar stories of the '60s. A sweet fable, this is pleasing but evanescent, fading like the half-forgotten dreams it delicately evokes.
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About this edition

• Publisher: Spectra
• Publication date: 1990
• ISBN 10: 0553283707
• ISBN 13: 9780553283709
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback