The city, not long after

by Pat Murphy

244 pages

English language

Published March 3, 1989 by Doubleday.

ISBN:: 978-0-385-24925-6

(6 reviews)

Half a generation ago, a gesture in the name of peace turned out to spread plague and disaster. In San Francisco, the survivors are heir to a city transformed. It is a haunted, dreaming place peopled with memories, and in a strange way nearly alive itself. And although it is only beginning to recover from near-ultimate disaster, the city is at risk again. An army of power-hungry men are descending on San Francisco. Teenagers Jax and Danny-boy must lead the fight for freedom using the only weapons they have art, magic, and the soul of the city itself.

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Ben E P reviewed The city, not long after by Pat Murphy

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3 stars

A quick read, and pretty fun. There's some portions of the book that discuss pacifism and art in ways that can become fairly cloying, but I took each with a grain of salt, given that this book was published (probably) for people in their mid-to-late teens in the late 80s and I'm reading it as a 28-year-old in 2013. The writing is simple and straightforward, following a standard narrative arc peppered with elements of magical realism. Recommended for teenage anarchists of the "That's soooo random!" variety.

unicorndeburgh reviewed The city, not long after. by Pat Murphy

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Post-apocalyptic fantasy, with a feminist, pacifist slant. The reason I say fantasy, rather than SF, is that things happen in the city of San Francisco that are along the lines of an active spirit of the city, rather than anything explainable by technology.