“And in a sense this is the first Diana Tregarde story, period. It takes place in the early 1970s and it will be hard for anyone younger than thirty to realize what a very different world that was. Computers were the size of buildings. We were still putting men on the moon, but there is more computing power in a common iPhone than there was at all of Cape Kennedy. Watergate was about to happen. Nixon hadn’t yet resigned. U.S. soldiers were still fighting and dying in Vietnam. There was no such t...hing as being “openly gay.” There also was no such thing as HIV. Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, and Brian Jones were all recently dead of various self-indulgences, but John Lennon was still alive. The only time you saw windmills was on a farm or in Holland. Gas was twenty-five cents a gallon, threatening to go up to thirty. No one had ever heard of, much less seen, a Japanese manga. Britney Spears wasn’t even born. Neither was Leonardo DiCaprio. Stand-up comedians only performed in nightclubs with bad reputations, or in Las Vegas.MoreLessRead More Read Less
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