Singing the Dogstar Blues

Camden-Stone and the others at the Centre for Neo-Historical Studies see Joss as a rebel, and not a particularly intelligent one at that. In reality, though, she is just a wild girl who puts what she understands of the criminal underworld to good use and plays the harmonica in her spare time. She is currently composing a piece called "The Dogstar Blues," about the aliens those on Earth have just discovered.

Like Blade Runner, which it occasionally reminded me of, Singing the Dogstar Blues is a cult classic- relatively esoteric, but loved by almost all who read it, including me. I ILLed it because I had read a very favorable review of it online, and I started reading it as soon as it came in; it's a difficult book to put down due to the mix of suspense and humor- not the sort of humor that would make this book a comedy but the sort of everyday humor that Joss encounters as she goes about her life. In the end, that is the real strength of The Dogstar Blues- I could completely believe that it was happening, or that it would happen sometime in the future.

I have been trying to classify this book according to the type of science fiction, but all I can say is that it has a definite punk feel to it.