Comments on: Version 43: The Moodboard

By: Philip Palmer

Philip Palmer — Tue, 30 Aug 2011 13:24:51 +0000

Thanks so much…and I’ll definitely try and do some more crime pieces. It’s a while since I’ve been out as an observer with the Murder Squad (AMIP as it was in those days) and I miss it…I’m currently working on a military drama, a whole other perspective, for Radio 4.

By: Robin

Robin — Mon, 29 Aug 2011 19:35:48 +0000

Yup. Kids, huh? Seriously – gruesome but medically well informed (the nasal membrane allows alcohol to be absorbed more quickly).
Thanks for the Chester tip – will read some. I see Will Self now writes the forewords….which I think is a good sign.
And please keep up the good work. I have been searching for this type of fiction for years. Michael Marshall Smith abandoned me. Scarlett Thomas let me down. But now I’ve found you!
Ps. Please write a Sci-Fi crime blog. You have a unique perspective!

By: Philip Palmer

Philip Palmer — Sat, 27 Aug 2011 20:31:43 +0000

That’s so so so scary and horrible…the tampons up noses I mean, not you liking Version 43. Have you read Chester Himes? Not SF, but brilliant Harlem noir of the 1960s, but that’s exactly the kind of stuff they would have got up to there…

By: Robin

Robin — Sat, 27 Aug 2011 07:55:18 +0000

Of the, albeit limited, sub genre of SCI fi crime novels, Version 43 is about the only book I have found, written after Mr Dick expired, which ‘get’s it’. Love the mood board. Love the decadence of Belladonna. As if to prove we are just a whisper away from Lawless City, I’ve just read an article in this morning’s Times about teenagers who have worked out how to get drunk quicker by putting tampons soaked in alcohol up their noses, or by dripping alcohol into their eyes, or by taking vaporised ‘Oxy Shots’. (Banned in the US but for sale on Costa De Sol which is, effectively, Belladonna-lite)