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But N Ben A-Go-Go (Paperback)

by Matthew Fitt (Author)
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  • Paperback: 207 pages
  • Publisher: Luath Press Ltd (25 Feb 2005)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 1905222041
  • ISBN-13: 978-1905222049
  • Product Dimensions: 19.4 x 13 x 2 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 265,130 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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'Matthew Fitt will do for prose in Scots what Hugh MacDiarmid did for poetry in Scots' JAMES ROBERTSON, EDINURGH INTERNATIONAL BOOK FESTIVAL 2000 'a cracker' GERALDINE BRENNAN, TIMES EDUCATIONAL SUPPLEMENT 'going where no man has gone before' STEPHEN NAYSMITH, THE HERALD 'After an initial shock, readers of this sprightly and imaginative tale will begin to relish its verbal impetus, where a standard Lallans, laced with bits of Dundonian and Aberdonian, is stretched and skelped to meet the demands of cyberjannies and virtual hoorhooses ... I recommend an entertaining and groundbreaking book.' EDWIN MORGAN

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With strong characters and a gripping plot, the well-defined settings create an atmosphere of paranoia and danger.The exciting denouement has a surprising twist and is set on Schiehallion. The introduction includes a section on how to read the Scots in this book, Mathew has made the spelling as straightforward as possible for a population used to English spelling conventions.

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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Justice for an under-rated book, 18 Mar 2003
This review is from: But n Ben A-go-go (Paperback)
This book is quite incredible. It uses the Scots vernacular language for a start, and no this language is not dead. It also tells an amazing futuristic story which encomapsses all our fears about sexually transmitted diseases, global warming and drugs.
The book is fantastic. I have bought and given away quite a few copies now and guess what, they don't come back. Read it and love it. If you can't read it you are not using all your brain, or maybe you don't have one.
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8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars You must enjoy science fiction and the Scots tongue, 11 Dec 2000
By Dr. H. E. Ross (Stirling, Scotland) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: But n Ben a-go-go (Hardcover)
If you like science fiction, and the Scots tongue, you will enjoy this zany book. Global warming has got a lot worse, and universal flooding means that only the tops of the mountains are above sea level. People live their dysfunctional lives in floating cities, tethered to the seabed. They relieve the monotony by trips into cyberspace. Real sex is not an option because of the prevalence of the deadly Senga (a virulent form of HIV), so most people stick to virtual sex. Unfortunately Nadia, the wife of our hero Paulo Broon, has been having it off the old-fashioned way with Paulo's dad, the infected arch-criminal Diamond Broon. Nadia is kept alive, locked up in a mortuary kist, and cannot be terminated until she is injected with Diamond's DNA. Diamond lives the life of Reilly in Inverdisney Penitentiary, an establishment for wealthy criminals. Paulo and Diamond arrange to meet at But n Ben A-Go-Go, Diamond's luxurious ranch on dry land at the top of Schiehallion. Paulo has heroic adventures getting there, and stravaigs like Fingal over a greater Celtic world. Don't expect a happy ending, but it's a good read. Oh, and by the wey, ye hae tae unnerstaun sentences like: "Then the howf's waws bloustered intae a cosmic stramash o a zillion pixels an a braid loch o lowin white licht kythed ablow his feet."
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars A braw buek!, 1 April 2005
By David M. Kennedy "Daibhid C" (Inverness) - See all my reviews
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This is amazing! It's hard to imagine anything that could so clearly prove Scots isn't fossilised in Burns' era. If you can write cyberpunk in it, you can certainly write contemporary in it! The familiar Blade-Runner neologisms take on a whole new life when "translated" into neo-Scots, even something as simple as the standard sf "plastipack" becoming a "plastipoke" makes this feel like a real, Scottish future.

The story itself is pretty good, although the way the disease that propels the plot actually works seems a bit confused. However it acts more as a McGuffin than anything else, so I'll let that go. I also loved the setting: due to global warming future Scotland is a series of floating parishes, with the higher Highland mountains becoming a chain of islands!

I'm also not sure why the police are called the Ceilidh, which is Gaelic for a village dance. I suspect there's a joke there I'm missing.

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