The most recent addition to the complete review is my review of Gilles Perrault's 1969 data-mining novel, Dossier 51.
This has long been out of print (though back in the day Penguin did bring out the UK paperback edition), and it probably falls short of reprint-quality/worthiness, despite having held up quite well, especially considering present-day NSA/Facebook/Google concerns. Interestingly, the only place it seems to have recently been revived is Israel: Nahar Books brought out 51 תיק in Hebrew a couple of years ago -- and you can see it fitting well in the חטופים/Homeland climate.
The Michel Deville film-version, from 1978, also seems worth seeking out. Well, not according to Vincent Canby ("the sort of movie that's more interesting to talk about than to sit through"), but others seem to have thought more highly of it. (And it would probably make a good double-feature with Francis Ford Coppola's The Conversation.)
This has long been out of print (though back in the day Penguin did bring out the UK paperback edition), and it probably falls short of reprint-quality/worthiness, despite having held up quite well, especially considering present-day NSA/Facebook/Google concerns. Interestingly, the only place it seems to have recently been revived is Israel: Nahar Books brought out 51 תיק in Hebrew a couple of years ago -- and you can see it fitting well in the חטופים/Homeland climate.
The Michel Deville film-version, from 1978, also seems worth seeking out. Well, not according to Vincent Canby ("the sort of movie that's more interesting to talk about than to sit through"), but others seem to have thought more highly of it. (And it would probably make a good double-feature with Francis Ford Coppola's The Conversation.)