Question for the LJ brain trust

[magid]

Which sf books/stories are set in Boston?

Huzzah for a post-Arisia snow day!

ETA: The reason for the question is that I'm thinking of putting together a self-guided walking tour of Boston as seen in sf (also, possibly other local towns, given enough material).

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[mabfan.livejournal.com]

There's a whole collection of short stories set in the same future called FUTURE BOSTON.

The classic "A Subway Called Moebius" by AJ Deutch is all about the Boston subway system.

Those are the first two that come to my mind.

Some of my stories have also been set in Boston or Brookline, or partly so...if you want that list, I'll provide it, but it seemed a little self-serving to me, which is why I'm not just posting that here.

[magid.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the pointers. I know I've heard something about a funky Boston subway situation, but I thought it was some kind of filk, not a story. *scribbling notes to self*

And your list of stories is very welcome.

[mabfan.livejournal.com]

Now that I look, the only stories of mine I can think of set in the Boston area are "The Quantum Teleporter" (a murder at the Media Lab) and "Reality Check" (set in Brookline, Cambridge, and Texas). Hm.

[shsilver.livejournal.com]

The editor of Future Boston, David Alexander Smith, was trying to create a shared future history of Boston. His novel In the Cube is set in the same milieu (and, I believe, was the end of the project).

[magid.livejournal.com]

Hee! I just found that on the list MAB referenced. It sounds like a cool project.

[magid.livejournal.com]

Based on the list of Boston-based lit you gave me, I found a number of promising leads. Most of these I haven't heard of before, so I'm mostly guessing from the one-line descriptions that they'd be relevant.
(Notes in parens from the site; notes in brackets mine)

Atwood, Margaret. A Handmaid's Tale (1986) [Yeah, it's Cambridge, but what a classic...]

Dubois, Brendan. Resurrection Day ("Boston after a nuclear war, but in a patrallel universe, set in the early 1970s")

Marano, Michael. Dawn Song (sci-fi, 1990, a Succubus arrives in Boston)

Stratton, Robin L. Raising the Pentagon: Three Ancient Socerers Caught in a Time Warp Find Themselves in 20th Century Boston: A New Age Adventure (1990) [Not really sure about this one, but.]

Arellano, Robert. Fast Eddie, King of the Bees (2001) (" near-future dystopia, a future Boston")

Mills, Christopher. "Kill Me in the Morning." (2001) (vampire fiction) 9 Mar. 2002

Popkes, Steven, Slow Lightning (1993) (space station orphan lives with aunt in Boston)

Robinson, Kim Stanley. "Glacier." In Robin Scott Wilson. Paragons: Twelve Master Science Fiction Writers Ply Their Craft. [Maybe sf, maybe not.]

Smith, David Alexander, ed. Future Boston (1994) ("a new novel created by an ongoing workshop by eight Boston-area writers, it's the 21st c. and the city is the only port of entry on Earth for interstellar commerce")

-----. In the Cube (1993) ("a science fiction detective yarn set in a future Boston literally crawling with wierd aliens.")

----- and Resa Nelson, "The Last Out." In 2041, ed. Jane Yolen