Make tracks – to run out of a place – didn’t make sense either, so that became make waves. Some needed to be adapted: dust – which could mean a lot of things, but in the context I wanted meant worthless – didn’t seem to fit anymore. To drift – to head out, leave, vanish, worked pretty well, too. Some became especially effective in a wet world: “air tight,” referring to something or someone good and trustworthy, for example, seemed even more effective in a world where air tight meant you could keep a thing dry. So I pulled up old slang from my favorite noir movies and books. I wanted to evoke the past, the 40s, the hardboiled everything – go forward to go back. The history of these characters, the situation they’re in, is built by the words they throw at each other.Īnd since the world of Depth is one in which the ice caps have melted and New York City exists as building tops and bridges, I got to make up some slang, too. Each sentence has to pack as much information as possible into as few words as possible. It’s almost like a court battle, but instead of long speeches and careful questioning, it’s down to the barest minimum of dialogue. They speak in short-hand, one implying the other is guilty of murder, the other turning it around.
In the scene I Dare Not Speak Of, it’s two characters talking over a body. The world in so many ways is created by the way characters speak to each other shorthand, slang, the back and forth.
I think noir is put together by its dialogue. But I can talk about why it’s my favorite bit – and how that aspect of the scene reaches out to my favorite part of the book in the general: the dialogue. There’s a specific scene in Depth that I think is probably my favorite, but it’s so spoilery I can’t bring myself to talk about it. Then her target is murdered, and the search for his killer points Simone towards a secret from the past that can’t possibly be real-but that won’t stop the city’s most powerful men and women from trying to acquire it for themselves, with Simone caught in the middle. Her latest case, running surveillance on a potentially unfaithful husband, was supposed to be easy. But the city survives, and Simone Pierce is one of its best private investigators. In a post-apocalyptic flooded New York City, a private investigator’s routine surveillance case leads to a treasure everyone wants to find-and someone is willing to kill for.ĭepth combines hardboiled mystery and dystopian science fiction in a future where the rising ocean levels have left New York twenty-one stories under water and cut off from the rest of the United States. Lev AC Rosen joins us today to talk about his new novel, Depth. Here is the publisher’s description:
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