Twilight of the City: A Novel of the Near Future [Hardcover]

Charles Platt (Author)

Product Details

• Hardcover: 222 pages
• Publisher: Macmillan Pub Co; First. edition (February 1977)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0025976206
• ISBN-13: 978-0025976207
• Product Dimensions: 8.2 x 5.9 x 1.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 13.6 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)

More About the Author

Charles Platt became interested in computers when he acquired an Ohio Scientific C4P in 1979. After writing and selling software by mail order, he taught classes in BASIC programming, MS-DOS, and subsequently Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop. He wrote five computer books during the 1980s.

He has also written science fiction novels such as The Silicon Man (published by Wired books) and Protektor (from Avon Books). He stopped writing science fiction when he started contributing to Wired magazine in 1993, and became one of its three senior writers a couple of years later.

Charles began contributing to Make magazine in its third issue and is currently a contributing editor. Make: Electronics is his first book for Make Books. Currently he is designing and building prototypes of medical equipment in his workshop in a northern Arizona wilderness area.

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4.0 out of 5 stars The "Near Future" is now..., March 26, 2000

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This review is from: Twilight of the City: A Novel of the Near Future (Hardcover)

Nostalgically reminiscent of the seventies, this "Novel of the Near Future" shows that the future is NOW. Unfortunately for all of us, little has been done to address the issues raised by Platt; only the names have been changed to protect the guilty. Suicide rock concerts, abandoned subdivisions scoured by gun-toting vigilantes, the pleasure palace, and a neighborhood-rage ending all intensify Platt's study of interpersonal relationships.