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 | Sagramanda by Alan Dean Foster | Reviewed by Harriet Klausner | |
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| Publisher: Pyr
http://www.pyrsf.com ISBN: 1591024889 Genre: Fiction Subgenre: Sci-Fi Release date: Oct 2006 Format: hardcover Pages: 287 Price: $25.00 | |||
| Sagramanda, India, is a megapolis of 100 million residents; the city, like all major urban areas, runs the gamut of the economic spectrum from affluent international CEOs to those so hopelessly poor one would classify them as being beneath the food chain’s lowest rung of wretchedly poor existing in the ooze. Those of wealth would do nothing to hurt their status, as all one has to do is look at the legions of poor as a reminder of how good life is for those with money and power.
His family, especially his humiliated father, cannot believe that the scientist Taneer Buthlahee ran off for a forbidden love with his Untouchable beloved, Depahli. Worse than that shame, he also stole research secrets he was working on, an insult his father plans to correct by having his son killed by company fixer Chal Schneemann before the information is sold on the black market. Taneer contacts street fixer Sanjay Ghosh to help him with the sale that will finance his escape with his beloved Depahli. Complicated as that family squabble may seem, a born again Hindu worshipper whose drug induced brain thinks she must sacrifice people to Kali believes that the two lovers would be a perfect send-off while Sagramanda Police Chief Inspector Keshu Singh closes in on the sword-slashing serial killer. This is a wild police procedural crime caper that occurs in a futuristic society in which the gap between haves and the have-nots are wider than the Grand Canyon and the number of the lower class is so great, substrata have been defined within the social group. The superb storyline contains several other subplots besides those above, but all are developed and ultimately tied together in a final exhilarating confrontation. Readers will enjoy this strong tale of near future India. | |||
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