Title: The People's Police
Title Record # 2057769
Author: Norman Spinrad
Date: 2017-02-00
Type: NOVEL
Language: English
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Author: Norman Spinrad
Date: 2017-02-00
Type: NOVEL
Language: English
Synopsis: The first American edition was preceded by the French edition by more than two years.
Amazon: ... a sharp commentary on politics with an interesting twist. Martin Luther Martin is a hard-working New Orleans cop, who has come up from the gangland of Alligator Swamp through hard work. When he has to serve his own eviction notice, he decides he's had enough and agrees to spearhead a police strike.
Brothel owner and entrepreneur J. B. Lafitte also finds himself in a tight spot when his whorehouse in the Garden District goes into foreclosure. Those same Fat Cats responsible for the real estate collapse after Katrina didn't differentiate between social strata or vocation.
MaryLou Boudreau, aka Mama Legba, is a television star and voodoo queen--with a difference. The loa really do ride and speak through her.
These three, disparate people are pulled together by a single moment in the television studio when Martin, hoping for publicity and support from the people against the banks, corporate fat cats, and corrupt politicians. But no one expects Papa Legba himself to answer, and his question changes everything.
"What do you offer?"
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Awards
Place | Year and Award | Category |
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2 | 2018 Campbell Memorial | Best Science Fiction Novel |
Publications
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Title | Date | Author/Editor | Publisher/Pub. Series | ISBN/Catalog ID | Price | Pages | Format | Type | Cover Artist | Verif |
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Police du peuple | 2014-10-15 | Norman Spinrad | Fayard | 978-2-213-66262-6 | €20.00?€: Euro |
295 | tp?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep. |
novel | Cheeri | |
The People's Police | 2017-02-00 | Norman Spinrad | Tor | 978-0-7653-8427-0 | $27.99?$: US dollar |
284 | hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size. |
novel | Michael Graziolo | |
The People's Police | 2017-02-00 | Norman Spinrad | Tor | 978-0-7653-8429-4 | $14.99?$: US dollar |
ebook?Used for all electronic formats, including but not limited to EPUB, eReader, HTML, iBook, Mobipocket, and PDF. |
novel | Michael Graziolo |
Reviews
- Review [French] by Thomas Day (2015) in Bifrost, #78
- Review by Paul Di Filippo (2017) in Locus Online, (2018)
- Review by Don Sakers (2017) in Analog Science Fiction and Fact, March-April 2017
- Review by Peter Heck (2017) in Asimov's Science Fiction, November-December 2017