Headcrash
Bruce Bethke’s Headcrash won the award. Through a man who disappears into virtual space under corporate pressure, it turns cyberpunk into satire.
Work Information
A satirical cyberpunk novel about corporations and virtual worlds.
The protagonist, cornered by corporate logic, slips into a networked virtual world and remakes himself there.
Book Information
- Publisher
- Grand Central Publishing
- Published
- 1995-09-01
- Pages
- 352 pages
- Language
- 英語
- Size
- 10.48 x 2.22 x 17.15 cm
- ISBN-13
- 9780446602600
- ISBN-10
- 0446602604
- Price
- 1899 JPY
- Category
- 洋書/Science Fiction & Fantasy/Science Fiction
Jack Burroughs was a young, brilliant computer programmer working in the shadows of corporate tyranny. That is, until corporate restructuring forced him down the fiber optic road to subterfuge. This is his incredible story--a melange of betrayal, abandonment, impish wit, imaginary sexcapades and a final, desperate attack against the forces of corporate evil.
Reviews
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WHY isn't this available in digital?
Look. It's a great book. Hilarious, deeply weird, and cyberpunk down to it's veins. But you can find those details in other reviews. I want to devote my review to another question: WHAT DO I NEED TO DO TO GET THIS BOOK IN KINDLE?! Seriously. I bought this out-of-print book in paperback years ago out of desperation but I want it in digital so I never lose it & can revisit it wherever I get the urge, from where ever I am at that moment. Amazon used to have a button that allowed you to send a request to the publisher to make an ebook. I'm pretty sure there was a 6 month period where I clicked that weekly (if not more). Cyberpunk shouldn't be trapped in dead-trees-format! Please.. Think of the children. The ones in the future who will never read this awesome book cuz no one is going to pay $25 for a used mass market paperback that they can't even try a sample of. And that's a terrible shame.
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This is such an amazing book...a true classic, and a must read for any sci fi fan.
What more can I add about this super cool and classic novel? I'm very happy I read this.
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One of my favorite books ever
One of my favorite books ever. I keep hoping they put it on the Kindle marketplace but they havent yet.
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How much do you trust your stuffies?
Delightful take on the whole cyberpunk genre. Particularly amusing to me, because I went to work at the IRL inspiration for Monolithic Diversified Enterprises and I worked for a Director who kept a laser-cut, transparent aluminum model of one of his products from his work in the Sanguinary Tech-Systems Division on the credenza in his office.