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Title:Arcana Caelestia
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Moderator:NETRIX::thomas
Created:Thu Dec 08 1983
Last Modified:Fri Jun 06 1997
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:1300
Total number of notes:18728

880.0. "Jeter's Farewell Horizontal" by OTOA01::CORBIN (BRIAN) Fri Jun 15 1990 21:08

    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
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880.1LUGGER::REDFORDJohn RedfordMon Jun 18 1990 21:0713
    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