Lacey and his Friends

Lacey and his Friends

"Lacey and his Friends" (Baen Books, ISBN 99927-45-73-8) is a 1986 compilation of three stories by David Drake, about Jed Lacey, a ruthless ex-rapist turned detective by a psychological computer. It includes other, less grim stories at the end. Lacey lives in a world of constant sousveillance and surveillance. Readers of "1984" will find this world eerily familiar, but with a democratic and capitalistic background that sets it up in contrast to the totalitarian world of George Orwell's "Nineteen Eighty-Four". People have chosen to live in this world rather than it being enforced from above by an unelected and unaccountable government. Ironically the government, in choosing to ignore its own laws, sets Lacey free from his former punishment in exchange for his silence about its own apparently illegal activities, in an inversion of the power relationships present in "Nineteen Eighty-Four".

Author comment

Drake mentions on his website that the three stories concerning Lacey were the harshest he's ever written.

External links

* [http://david-drake.com/lacey.html David Drake's comments concerning the book and its effect on him]


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