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Thud! from Terry Pratchett
KoomValley? That was where the trolls ambushed the dwarfs, or the dwarfs ambushed the trolls. It was far away. It was a long time ago.

But if he doesn’t solve the murder of just one dwarf, Commander Sam Vimes of Ankh-Morpork City Watch is going to see it fought again, right outside his office.
With his beloved Watch crumbling around him and war-drums sounding, he must unravel every clue, outwit every assassin and brave any darkness to find the solution.And darkness is following him....

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Title: But N Ben A-go-go
Author: Matthew Fitt
ISBN: 1842820141
EAN: 9781842820148
207 Pages
Publisher: Luath Press Ltd
Binding: Paperback
Publication date: 2001-11-01

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2005-04-01 A braw buek!

This is amazing! It's hard to imagine anything that could so clearly prove Scots isn't fossilised in Burns' era. If you can write cyberpunk in it, you can certainly write contemporary in it! The familiar Blade-Runner neologisms take on a whole new life when "translated" into neo-Scots, even something as simple as the standard sf "plastipack" becoming a "plastipoke" makes this feel like a real, Scottish future.

The story itself is pretty good, although the way the disease that propels the plot actually works seems a bit confused. However it acts more as a McGuffin than anything else, so I'll let that go. I also loved the setting: due to global warming future Scotland is a series of floating parishes, with the higher Highland mountains becoming a chain of islands!

I'm also not sure why the police are called the Ceilidh, which is Gaelic for a village dance. I suspect there's a joke there I'm missing.