Book 60: "Roofworld" by Christopher Fowler
Monday, August 17th, 2009 16:16![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kittiwakeThe night was clear and cool and Rose was alone on the rooftops of London. It seemed peaceful to be above the city and yet still be a part of it. Carefully, she lined her camera up to the ledge along the building and looked through her viewfinder once more. But this time, instead of seeing the empty roofscape of the city, she saw the strangest thing. Running figures, some loping, some as if swinging on invisible ropes, bounding and leaping across the angled rooftops on the other side of the street. there were perhaps fifteen of them, young, old, men or women, it was difficult to tell. there was even a dog of some kind, darting silently between their feet.
Since the 1920s the rooftops of London have been home to a well-organised society. Hundreds of people at a time have lived up there in secret, travelling along cables that they had strung between the buildings. But now, their world is crumbling around them as they fight for survival against the evil Chymes and his gang, while down below the police are starting to wonder what is going on, when several dead bodies are found that seem to have been killed up above. This book is set in the late 1980s. and even then the inhabitants of Roofworld were seeing more security cameras appearing on the rooftops. I'm not sure that the story would be feasible if it was set nowadays with so many CCTV cameras everywhere. People may not look upwards, but the cameras see everything.
Since the 1920s the rooftops of London have been home to a well-organised society. Hundreds of people at a time have lived up there in secret, travelling along cables that they had strung between the buildings. But now, their world is crumbling around them as they fight for survival against the evil Chymes and his gang, while down below the police are starting to wonder what is going on, when several dead bodies are found that seem to have been killed up above. This book is set in the late 1980s. and even then the inhabitants of Roofworld were seeing more security cameras appearing on the rooftops. I'm not sure that the story would be feasible if it was set nowadays with so many CCTV cameras everywhere. People may not look upwards, but the cameras see everything.
