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Title: A Hilarious Look At A Censored Future
Review: Admittedly this is not one of the great works of contemporary science fiction, but I couldn't help but smile reading page after page of this witty, slender novel. Bisson is one of science fiction's funniest satirists since Kurt Vonnegut announced that he isn't a science fiction writer (My humble apologies to Vonnegut - you were and still are - a science fiction writer.). He paints a satirical look at the future that is as riveting as any I've read in an early William Gibson novel or any of Jack Womack's. Bisson's main protagonist Hank Shapiro comes across as a befuddled, amusing Ulysses searching for the Holy Grail (a Hank Williams LP!) in a dystopic American future. I eagerly await Bisson's subsequent efforts in humorous science fiction.
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