@booklet {8892, title = {Heads or Hearts}, year = {2015}, month = {2015}, publisher = {Severn House}, address = {Sutton, Eng.}, abstract = {

A volume in the series begun in 1997 Johnston and the following four volumes, but this version of the future Edinburgh is going through a significant transition. While the novel has the same main protagonist and a central concern is, as with the others, corruption at the heart of an Edinburgh supposedly modelled on Plato\’s\ Republic, the city has been opened to tourists, and there are plans to reunite with the other city-states that comprise the future Scotland.\ A sequel set in the same time period is Skeleton Blues. Sutton, Eng.: Severn House, 2016, in which the protagonist is fighting the usual corruption, but the novel ends with a successful revolution. The next novel in the series, Impolitic Corpses. Sutton, Eng.: Severn House, 2019, is set in the post-revolution future with Scotland reunited and reformed, but there is still corruption, greed, and struggles for power. The novel\’s ending requires a sequel.\ 

}, keywords = {Male author, Scottish author}, author = {Paul Johnston (b. 1957)} } @booklet {4811, title = {Body Politic}, year = {1997}, note = {

Rpt. London: New English Library, 1998.

}, publisher = {Hodder \& Stoughton}, address = {London}, abstract = {

First volume of a murder mystery series set in a future dystopian Edinburgh, which is an authoritarian enclave in a collapsed Britain. People are kept near starvation, and Edinburgh caters to wealthy tourists on sex and drugs holidays. Its social system is supposed to be based on Plato\’s\ Republic. Sequels include\ The Bone Yard. London: Hodder \& Stoughton, 1998;\ Water of Death. London: Hodder \& Stoughton, 1999;\ The Blood Tree. London Hodder \& Stoughton, 2000; and\ The House of Dust. London: Hodder \& Stoughton, 2001. See also 2015 Johnston, Heads and Hearts, which, while with the same protagonist and setting, involves significant changes in the system.\ \ 

}, keywords = {Male author, Scottish author}, author = {Paul Johnston (b. 1957)} }