FOOLS
ホログラムのプールで目を覚ました女優マーヴァが、殺人の記憶を抱えたまま、逃走と記憶の迷路に巻き込まれるサイバーパンク小説。現実と仮想が何層にも重なり、追跡劇は不穏なユーモアと暴力を帯びて進む。
作品情報
記憶と仮想現実がずれ始めるとき、逃走劇は別の顔を見せる。
記憶の改変、身体の代理、逃走と追跡が連鎖する近未来小説で、人物たちの身元も感情も容易には固定されない。犯罪劇の速度感を保ちながら、テクノロジーが人間の認識をどうずらすかを突きつける。
書籍情報
- 出版社
- Spectra
- 発売日
- 1992-10-01
- 言語
- 英語
- サイズ
- 17.27 x 10.92 x 2.29 cm
- ISBN-13
- 9780553295122
- ISBN-10
- 0553295128
- 価格
- 3357 JPY
- カテゴリ
- 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
レビュー
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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.
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