By Kathleen Ann Goonan
Nanotech Quartet [2]
Nominated - Locus SciFi 1998
The trip of Verity around the splendidly altered panorama of mid-America started in Queen urban Jazz: "A dizzying novel that takes complete benefit of the inventive capability of nanotech," stated The long island Times. Now it maintains down the river in Mississippi Blues. Verity takes the wildest forged of characters when you consider that Philip José Farmer's Riverworld, either dwelling and resurrected, down the river to attainable salvation in New Orleans and past in a good SF epic.
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Oh, God — " he said, "you talk about roller coasters — "Stop and think sometime about the roller coaster I'm on. " Kazak now flung himself into the house, flews flapping. He landed skidding on the polished floor. He ran in place, trying to make a right-angle turn in Beatrice's direction. Faster and faster he ran, and still he could get no traction. He became translucent. He began to shrink, to fizz crazily on the foyer floor like a ping-pong ball in a frying pan Then he disappeared. There was no dog any more.
His system was so idiotically simple that some people can't understand it, no matter how often it is explained. The people who can't understand it are people who have to believe, for their own peace of mind, that tremendous wealth can be produced only by tremendous cleverness. " And then he looked for corporations with those initials, and bought shares in them. His rule at the beginning was that he would own shares in only one corporation at a time, would invest his whole nest-egg in it, and would sell the instant the value of his shares had doubled.
There was more to the speech. Malachi Constant of Hollywood, California, came out of the rhinestone phone booth cold sober. His eyes felt like cinders. His mouth tasted like horseblanket purée. He was positive that he had never seen the beautiful blond woman before. He asked her one of the standard questions for times of violent change. " he said. "You threw 'em all out," said the woman. " said Constant "Yah," said the woman. " Constant nodded weakly. During the fifty-six-day party he had reached a point where he could draw almost nothing else.