Armed Memory

Young, Jim

ISBN 10: 0812550277 / ISBN 13: 9780812550276

Published by Tor Science Fiction, 1996

About this Item

Armed Memory by Jim Young, Tor 55027, 1996, first printing. Cover art by Bruce Jensen. Bright, square and tight; new and unread.

Seller Inventory # pb6388

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Armed Memory
• Publisher: Tor Science Fiction
• Publication Date: 1996
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0812550277
• ISBN 13: 9780812550276
• Binding: Soft cover
• Illustrator: Bruce Jensen
• Printing: 1st Printing
• Condition: New
• Dimensions: 10.16W x 17.15H x 1.91D centimeters 10.16 centimeters width by 17.15 centimeters height by 1.91 centimeters depth
• Weight: 136.078 grams
• Seller catalogs:
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Synopsis

In a twenty-first-century New York, where genetic technology enables people to become whoever--or whatever--they desire, Tim Wandel takes a new job and finds himself in a deadly confrontation with a killer species of shark-humans. Reprint.

From Publishers Weekly

The future is a dangerous place-just ask any of the half-dozen main characters in this cutting-edge adventure novel about "microded" (genetically altered) gangsters who, modified from humans into sharklike creatures, dwell in the ocean's depths and do the bidding of shadowy mafia figures. Told as a series of flashbacks and oral testimonials before the Senate Intelligence Committee, the novel divides into two parts. The first is a tale of two cousins: Johnny Stevens, who always wanted to be covered in scales and whose company has now perfected the technology that enables anyone to look like any person or creature they desire; and Timothy Wandel, who goes to work for Johnny as a PR man. They battle the microded hammerheads until triumph and tragedy consume Johnny's company. The novel's second part is far less successful, with less action and less clear-cut goals for the characters as Wandel and others continue to deal with the global hammerhead menace. Still, Young's writing creates a strong sense of excitement, his future world is familiar enough to be appealing (and distorted enough to be hip) and the mysteries he explores are intense and compelling.
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