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Swanwick, Michael

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 087795870X ISBN 13: 9780877958703

Publisher: Arbor House, 1987

Synopsis

Arbor House: 1987. FIRST EDITION FIRST PRINTING hardcover with dustjacket. The author's second novel, preceded by his well-received IN THE DRIFT (1985). This is an early example of the cyberpunk genre, and features one of the earliest uses of the concept of "wetware."

About this title

From Publishers Weekly:

Like most of the genre, Swanwick's cyberpunk novel takes off from '40s crime thrillers and films noir, his basis here being the amnesiac seeking her own past. Eucrasia Walsh had been a persona buma tester of plug-in personalitiesuntil one of the implants accidentally burned itself into her brain, blanking out her own identity and leaving her the sole template of the valuable new persona. Corporate giant Deutsche Nakasone and its graymarket rivals are both after her, but while on the lam she becomes involved in the struggle between Earthnow a single communal mindand the colonies of individuals scattered through the solar system. As with Swanwick's first novel, In the Drift, the story peters out toward the end, but until then it is inventive and playful, poetic and ingratiating. SF Book Club main selection.
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About this edition

• Publisher: Arbor House
• Publication date: 1987
• ISBN 10: 087795870X
• ISBN 13: 9780877958703
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 248