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).

Comments

[ceo]

It's only sort-of SF, but Neal Stephenson's Quicksilver starts in 18th-century Boston. It features the "Massachusetts Bay Colony Institute of Technologickal Arts", which is located pretty much where MIT is now (or close enough, considering the land MIT is on didn't exist then).

[magid.livejournal.com]

Cool. Thank you.

I'm starting to think there should be a special MIT booklist!

[visage.livejournal.com]

It certainly pops up in enough SF. I seem to recall Benford novels (The Artifact, for example) periodically stopping in at MIT.

But MIT is usually more of a pit-stop than a setting, from what I'm remembering.

[ckd]

Not a book, but Infocom's game "The Lurking Horror" has a recognizably MIT-inspired layout. Dave Lebling explains.

[magid.livejournal.com]

Oh, excellent. That makes me want to stay up and find a tunnel tour some pre-dawn...

Though I've been local for over a decade, the only vaguely off-limit tunnels I've been in were at Princeton (in company of a cousin who was a student there at the time).