Title: Good fun book for cyberpunk fans
Review: This the first book of Pat Cadigan's I've read. I can't remember who or where I heard about it, but a good book.The novel is set in a near future cyberpunk world where artifcial reality (AR) is commonplace and people regularly fall into lives in AR that are more compelling that lives in the real world. The technology is believeable with enough details to satisfy hard sci-fi readers without delving into textbookese.Having enjoyed the proto-ARs that are online games, I was interested in seeing what Ms. Cadigan had to say about the future.Similiar to Gibson's Pattern Recognition, all the characters in the book are looking for something. The focus is on the role of artifical reality in these hunts. The vision is interesting, but in the end it is difficult to relate to reality.The book is fun and enjoyable as a quick read, but for more heady cyberpunk, turn to Bruce Sterling.
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