Clarke County, Space (Magill’s Guide to Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature)
At a glance:
- Author: Allen Steele
- First Published: 1990
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Science fiction—extrapolatory
- Time of Work: 2050
- Setting: A space colony in Earth orbit
- Genres: Long fiction, Science fiction
- Subjects: Future, Space ships, stations, or vehicles, Twenty-first century, Assassins, hit men, or contract killers, Organized crime, Satellites
- Locales: Solar system
The Plot
The story occurs primarily on Clarke County, a space colony in high Earth orbit, and involves the efforts of Sheriff John Bigthorn to stop a Mafia killer, a plot by a crazed member of an Elvis Presley cult, and a movement for colony independence. The story is told within a frame involving a journalist writing a book. Simon McCoy approaches the journalist to tell him the real story. The journalist agrees to hear him out, withholding any questions until later. The novel is in the third person and is presented from a variety of viewpoints, but it is intended to represent...
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