by Cormac McCarthy
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James Lovegrove's Days (1997) was well received and shortlisted for the Arthur C. Clarke Award. The Foreigners is a more traditional blend of SF and police procedural thriller; well written, inventive and with an exotically detailed "New Venice" setting.
The Foreigners are enigmatic, seven-foot alien tourists whose presence has halted ecological collapse and transformed Earth. They come with gifts, including free, non-polluting power and a new structural material which--coaxed by music--grows into buildings of glittering crystal. No one knows what's inside their golden robes and masks.
All the Foreigners ask is music and song... though there is something worrying about their shuddering, ecstatic response to the highly paid human "Sirens" who compete to sing for them. No physical contact, but somehow it reeks of prostitution. Lovegrove says he was inspired by the Thai sex-tourism industry that sees Westerners as "walking cashpoints, there to be milked and bilked".
When a dead Siren and a Foreigner's emptied robes are found in a plush hotel, it suggests something sordid--maybe a suicide pact? The investigator is London detective Jack Parry, transferred to the Foreign Policy Police that struggles to prevent anti-alien fanatics from scaring our benefactors away. As FPP publicity disasters follow thick and fast, Parry finds himself more personally entangled in the case than he could have imagined.
Connoisseurs of SF detective puzzles will probably be ahead of Parry by the halfway mark, but Lovegrove has extra surprises up his sleeve. A grippingly told story of an ingeniously imagined future. --David Langford
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It was a bizarre and beautiful invasion. Suddenly the Foreigners were everywhere: walking the streets of 21st century earth as if they had been there all along; their inscrutable golden masks floating above the crowds on top of their seven foot robe clad bodies. They brought with them the technological marvel of Crystech at once a power source and a building material; it banished all our worries and heralded a new utopia. All they asked of us was that we sing to them. All they threatened was that one day they might leave and take Crystech with them throwing us back into the dark ages. And now, in a hotel room on one of the gleaming white streets of New Venice, one of the Foreigners has been murdered. And if we cannot find out who killed it before another dies then the Foreigners will go giving us back disharmony and, perhaps, freedom.
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