I was going through Cellular News and found the following:
"A novel in which the entire narrative consists of mobile phone text messages was published Wednesday in Finland. "The Last Messages" tells the story of a fictitious executive in Finland who resigns from his job and travels throughout Europe and India, keeping in touch with his friends and relatives only through text messages.
His messages, and the replies, roughly 1,000 altogether, are listed in chronological order in the 332-page novel written by Finnish author Hannu Luntiala. The texts are rife with grammatical errors and abbreviations commonly used in such messages."
[via Cellular News]
This made me try to remember if I have ever read about a mobile phone in fiction (not in professional literature)... I couldn't think of any examples... However, I do remember that the first and only time I've ever read about an IM conversation was in Haruki Murakami's "The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle" written back in 1995! I don't want to spoil the fun so go grab the book, be amazed from the prehistoric IM chat session described and enjoy.
If you happen to know who was the first author to describe\write about the telephone, mobile phone, TV, PC etc' in fiction\literature please comment or drop me a line. Thanks :)
I know he can't be the first, but Michael Marshall's book - "The Straw Men" uses a lot of new technology. His heros use wireless internet and all their hacking skill to solve the mysteries which are the books' focus. It appears that for todays thriller heros, shooting your way out of trouble just doesn't cut it. You need to shoot and fight, but also to hack (and walk around with a laptop in addition to a gun).
It appears technology is definately "in"...
Posted by: Idan Aderka | Sunday, January 28, 2007 at 14:35