HONG ON THE RANGE

Wu, William F.

ISBN 10: 0802768628 / ISBN 13: 9780802768629

Published by Walker., NY:, 1989

About this Item

HC in dust jacket. 1st Printing. Illustrated by Phil Hale, Darrel Anderson and Rick Berry. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket.

Seller Inventory # 19142

Bibliographic Details

• Title: HONG ON THE RANGE
• Publisher: Walker., NY:
• Publication Date: 1989
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0802768628
• ISBN 13: 9780802768629
• Binding: Hardcover
• Illustrator: Phil Hale; Darrel Anderson; Richard Berry
• Edition: 1st edition.
• Seller catalogs:
  • Science Fiction / Fantasy

About this title

Synopsis

In a future American West where most of the people and animals are partly mechanical, totally human cowboy Louie Hong tangles with bionic outlaws and bounty hunters who are blaming him for a recent bank robbery.

Reviews

Grade 7 Up-- In a future no-time after "terrible biological raging" of the West, a western society lives its notion of what the "Old West" was like. Most of the people have cyborgian "specials": a natural arm replaced by a lariat attachment; a spring placed into a neck so its possessor can never be hanged. Low caste are the "control-naturals"--humans with no specials, such as Hong. In a plot too thin to sustain interest, Hong gets pressed into a bank hold-up gang from which for the duration of the tale he tries to escape. Names are low puns, as one "steerite"--stainless steel bone that grows beef--is named "Chuck"; but let's hear it for Chuck, for he is the most complex and interesting character of the lot. Clean-gore violence saturates the action: cyborgs get shot, torn apart, smashed, but they bleed not, nor do they die. As for Hong, he is bonked, zonked, klonked, and schlonked ad nauseum --but he's up and at 'em always. Some readers will plow through this book, but not many. --George Gleason, Department of English, Southwest Missouri State University, Springfield
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