Crescent City Rhapsody
Nebula Award nominee 2000.
A prequel to Queen City Blues.
This is how it begins...
...with the Silence, born of mysterious, space-originated phenomena that render Earth's dominant technologies useless – inspiring paranoia and alien invasion fears within secret government agencies, which, in turn, inspire repressive actions against a perceived enemy populace
...and with murder, as New Orleans mob boss and voudoun queen, Marie Laveau, dies in a hail of gunfire – and is remade through the wonders of nanotechnology.
In a new world that necessity has transfigured – an exhilarating, seething stew of microscopic machinery and genetic engineering; of totalinarianism, eco-terrorism and violence – Marie Laveau's hunger for vengance is giving way to something greater.
For Destiny has named her savior of the outcasts, the opressed, the crazies, the hunted and the Silence's mutant children, who all flock to her dream of a future as sweet as an Ellington riff... and a safe haven called Crescent City.
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Kathleen Ann Goonan (born 1952) is an American science fiction writer. Several of her books have been nominated for the Nebula Award. Her debut novel Queen City Jazz was a New York Times Notable Book of the Year, and her most recent novel In War Times was chosen by the American Library Association as Best Science Fiction Novel for their 2008 reading list. In July of 2008, In War Times won the John W. Campbell Memorial Award for Best Science Fiction Novel.
Nanotech Cycle
Nanotech Cycle consists of four books. The current recommended reading order for the series is provided below.
