Gun, with Occasional Music by Jonathan Lethem, is a hard-boiled sci-fi detective story that keeps you reading with a combination of the suspense of the mystery and the mysterious world it occurs in. The story doesn't quite succeed in rising to the heights it aspires to, but it is a lot of fun. I think sci-fi fans would be more ready than mystery fans to cut it the necessary slack, but maybe they're the ones who will share my disappointment with the end. ***(*)
I just bopped over and checked out a review on a sci-fi site that supports my original idea: http://www.sff.net/people/Richard.Horton/gunwith.htm
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