FOOLS
A cyberpunk novel in which actress Marva wakes in a hologram pool carrying the memory of a murder and is pulled into a maze of pursuit and unstable memory. Reality and virtual experience layer over one another as the chase unfolds with unsettling humor and violence.
Work Information
When memory and virtual reality begin to slip out of alignment, the chase changes shape.
This near-future novel links altered memory, surrogate bodies, and a chain of pursuit and escape, leaving the characters’ identities and feelings hard to pin down. It keeps the pace of a crime story while probing how technology can shift human perception.
Book Information
- Publisher
- Spectra
- Published
- 1992-10-01
- Language
- 英語
- Size
- 17.27 x 10.92 x 2.29 cm
- ISBN-13
- 9780553295122
- ISBN-10
- 0553295128
- Price
- 3357 JPY
- Category
- 洋書/Science Fiction & Fantasy/Science Fiction
When Marva, a method actress, awakens in a hologram pool, carrying in her head the memory of a murder, she must find out whose life she is living and elude the Escort Service assassins who are pursuing her
Reviews
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It is well worth sticking with this story in spite of the constant state of disorientation it produces. Your head is in a blender and that is exactly the point. I've fallen head over heels in love with Cadigan's writing, and I'll be gobbling up the rest of it with glee.
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This book is unapologetically cyberpunk. Like the best of the genre it causes the reader to question both identity and reality. If memory is tied to personal identity, and memories can be bought and sold, how do you know who you are? How do you know what or who else is in your head? It's pacy with a noir-ish twist to it, and like many of Cadigan's books it crackles with energy and imagination. I enjoyed this book immensely and would recommend it for sci-fi fans.
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Writing about someone who's memory has been tampered with is a challenge and this didn't quite manage it. 30% of the way through it was still bafflingly confusing and I gave up.