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One of the many pleasures of reading ebooks is discovering an old favorite or even beloved title that now is available as an ebook. Sometimes you are disappointed when the cherished volume fails to live up to your memories or expectations. Sometimes reading the book again is again a revelation or rediscovery of the magic by which a truly gifted author can create brilliant beautiful worlds within your mind - using only words.
I recently noticed that Kathleen Ann Goonan's Queen City Jazz was finally available as an ebook. Ever since I first discovered this book years ago, I have read and re-read and re-read this book (I wore out several paperback copies and finally purchased a hardcover edition) - the writing is lyrical, brilliant, evocative, and deeply emotional. The mental pictures Goonan creates in your mind are wondrous! Simply put, this book describes a dystopian future after nanotechnology has "escaped" and the surviving humans are either hiding from it or infected with it. Goonan takes this basic scenario and applies her imagination - and creates one of the most unique, distinctive, and completely individual vision of a dystopia that I have ever read. A delicious melange of narrative beauty, leavened with literary & musical references -- and flowers & bees! Yes, bees ....
So I bought the ebook and began re-re-re-reading it -- and am being completely blown away again - It's even better than I had remembered. There are so many layers to this book, I think you will discover something new each time you read it, no matter how many times you read it.
Highly recommended!
[This is book 1 (and the best IMHO) of her Nanotech Quartet: Queen City Jazz, Mississippi Blues, Crescent City Rhapsody, Light Music. I hope the remaining 3 are soon issued as ebooks as well]
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