50 A Year In The Linear City

The book is not driven by a single storyline but as its title suggests presents a year in the life of the city through eyes of a cosmogonic fiction author named diego.

A year in the linear city. Living in the behomeian borough of gritsavage nearly ten and a half million blocks from the start of the city is the cosmogonic fiction author diego. Moreover there are copies available on the internet and should the opportunity to acquire a copy present itself i would strongly recommend doing so. The story follows the lives of some residents of the 10 394 850th block throughout the course of a year. A year in the linear city is an intriguing novella full of exotic characters and locations.

The linear city is a world two city blocks across and unknowably many blocks long with a river on one side and railroad tracks on the other. Specifically a year in the linear citry was limited to 300 hardcover and another 500 paperback copies and at the time of this writing some copies were still available from the publisher. The linear city appears to be a single street which runs forever beginning in the mythical block zero and running through various boroughs and neighborhoods each governed by their own mayor. A year in the linear city shows us a year in the life of diego patchen a writer of cosmogonic fiction the linear city s version of sf.

The linear city was an urban plan for an elongated urban formation. As the seasons change diego visits his dying father writes imaginative stories for the pulp magazine mirror worlds and gets into various scrapes with his firefighter extrovert girlfriend volusia bittern. The setting fully cosmogonic it nevertheless tells of a writer breaking into a burgeoning pulp magazine market with stories scorned by the literati. The linear city is a world two city blocks across and unknowably many blocks long with a river on one side and railroad tracks on the other.

A year in the linear city is the story of diego and his friends their loves and rivalries their failures and triumphs during one pivotal year beneath the seasonsun and daysun in forbidding sight of the other shore and the wrong side of the tracks. A year in the linear city is the story of diego and his friends their loves and rivalries their failures and triumphs during one pivotal year beneath the seasonsun and daysun in forbidding sight of the other shore and the wrong side of the tracks. Careers will flourish comrades will part forever subterranean adventures will endanger both. Generally the city would run parallel to a river and be built so that the dominant wind would blow from the residential areas to the industrial strip.

In the end a year in the linear city is a fine novella that pays homage to yesteryear life and genre fictionally and meta fictionally.