Okay, I finished Invisible Monsters last night, and will be able to discuss it when it all starts up.
Since I'm responsible for next month's book, I thought I'd float a few authors and titles here to make sure I'm not going to be assigning stuff people've already read and are bored with.
So, first: how many here are familiar with Neal Stephenson? His Snow Crash, The Diamond Age and Cryptonomicon are all great material, but I fear they're so widely known that there won't be any surprise. Let me know if any of these hold interest - I'm leaning toward Snow Crash if it's relatively new here.
Failing that, Jack Womack's Terraplane and/or Elvissey are also great reading: time-travel novels in a post-cyberpunk world, but Womack does a lot of playing around with linguistics, so he can be trying to get the hang of at first.
And if all else fails, I have Noir by K.W. Jeter (get the paperback). Dark, dark, dark SF book. Not as sardonic as Invisible Monsters, but can make the grodier scenes in IM look tame.
Actually, now that I think about it, Noir is likely to be the least-known and best-appreciated of the above titles. If there are no objections or rootings for any of the above, that's what I'll go with.
Please comment! :-)
-Rich
