The Night Mayor (Magill’s Guide to Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature)
At a glance:
- Author: Kim Newman
- First Published: 1989
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Science fiction—cyberpunk
- Time of Work: The distant future
- Setting: England and a dream world based on cinematic images called “the City”
- Genres: Long fiction, Science fiction
- Subjects: Crime or criminals, Future, Dreams, England or English people, Films, movies, or motion pictures
- Locales: England, Dreamscape
The Plot
In the future world of the novel, all aspects of society are regulated by a sentient artificial intelligence called Iggdrasil. The principal form of entertainment is the Dream, successor to motion pictures (“flatties”). The sleeping consumer Dreams a programmed plot complete with sensory effects. These are created by professional Dreamers from situations provided by Iggdrasil.
Two Dreamers, Tom Tunney and Susan Bishopric, have been “Conscripted by the Gunmint” (government) to break into an unauthorized Dream created by master criminal Truro Daine....
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