| Title: | Arcana Caelestia |
| Notice: | Directory listings are in topic 2 |
| Moderator: | NETRIX::thomas |
| Created: | Thu Dec 08 1983 |
| Last Modified: | Thu Jun 05 1997 |
| Last Successful Update: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Number of topics: | 1300 |
| Total number of notes: | 18728 |
Has anyone read "Farewell Horizontal" about life on the outside
of a very very large building. I forget the author. I have this
image of the main character walking on the verticle. I hope one
of the hollywood studios pick this book for a movie, but I can't
imagine how they could do the vertical scenes. On second thought
they could do it like the old Batman series but with a more
high-teck look.
BC
| T.R | Title | User | Personal Name | Date | Lines |
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| 880.1 | LUGGER::REDFORD | John Redford | Mon Jun 18 1990 18:07 | 13 | |
The author is K. W. Jeter. Very odd book. It's about a whole
culture that exists on the outside walls of an enormous
building. The people spend all their time anchored to the
vertical walls by cables in their boots. They sneer at those who
are so bourgeois as to prefer horizontal floors. The hero makes
his living as a free-lance news cameraman and as a maker of
intimidating logos for the various gangs that rule the walls.
All the way through the book you're wondering how the hell anyone
wound up living out there. It reminded me of "The Inverted
World" by Christopher Priest, which was another novel where one's
basic geometry was distorted.
/jlr
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