- Paperback: 240 pages
- Publisher: Tor (20 Oct 2000)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0333779533
- ISBN-13: 978-0333779538
- Product Dimensions: 23.1 x 15.2 x 2 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 376,632 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Dore Konstantin is officer in charge of TechnoCrime, Artificial Reality Division and, as if handling a heavy case-load almost single-handed wasn't enough, she's now got a stalker to deal with.
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Dore Konstantin is officer in charge of TechnoCrime, Artificial Reality Division and, as if handling a heavy case-load almost single-handed wasn't enough, she's now got a stalker to deal with.Extremely wealthy Hasting Dervish is the stalker according to Susannah Ell -- and she should know. Firstly, she's the one being stalked; secondly, she used to be married to Dervish. Worse, Susannah claims he's swapped places with an ambitious AI, and now Dervish has all the processing power he needs to infiltrate every line of code in Susannah's AR design studio. Meanwhile the AI is using Dervish's body as a base to visit AR, and hanging out in the gambling casinos of the Lowdown Hong Kong mound. This is where Goku of a Japanese law-enforcement agency, comes in. Since he likes going into AR in the persona of a nine-year-old kid, this really makes Konstantin unhappy. But if she's going to get the goods on Hastings Dervish, she'll have to deal with Goku.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This is a direct sequel to Cadigan's 'Tea From An Empty Cup', and once again features Police Officer Konstantin investigating a bizarre crime in artificial (ie: virtual) reality, this time involving claims of brainwashing around a casino and a woman who claims to be being stalked by her ex-husband who has swapped places with an aritificial intelligence.
As with 'Tea From An Empty Cup' this is a short but intense science fiction novel, though perhaps a slightly more fluid read as Cadigan dispenses with the split narrative of before to concentrate on building up her main characters for what is now obviously intended to be an open-ended series. It must be admitted that the inconclusive ending - full of hints and insinuations but nothing concrete - isn't hugely satisfying, but then again it's entirely in keeping with the ongoing theme of the impossibility of knowing what is real and what isn't in an artificial world. A disorientating but enjoyable read.
As with 'Tea From An Empty Cup' this is a short but intense science fiction novel, though perhaps a slightly more fluid read as Cadigan dispenses with the split narrative of before to concentrate on building up her main characters for what is now obviously intended to be an open-ended series. It must be admitted that the inconclusive ending - full of hints and insinuations but nothing concrete - isn't hugely satisfying, but then again it's entirely in keeping with the ongoing theme of the impossibility of knowing what is real and what isn't in an artificial world. A disorientating but enjoyable read.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
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I have to admit to having spent hours hunting down Cadigan titles (back in the days before Amazon existed)... Dervish is Digital follows on from Tea From An Empty Cup and is based around the same main character.
There is a dissonance to Cadigan's prose that comes, I think, from refusing to give her readers what they want - simplicity and straight forward story lines. This makes it difficult for the reader but is also one of Cadigan's strengths. Her books often just end, refusing the easy option of neatness, and while not quite so marked as in TFAEC, Dervish is Digital does this.
I loved this book but then I loved TFAEC and Chief Officer Konstantin is a character I want to see more off and sooner rather than later. Here's to the next one!
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
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Officer Konstantin is head of Technocrime, which sounds good until you realise it's a scuzzy one person department, well, one person and a junior so bad that Konstantin actually *wants* them to keep getting borrowed to work Traffic detail...
Hastings Dervish lives in Key West, a place where crime is a private matter and the police are hired hacks, pretty much doing what they are told...
The joy of Cadigan's work is that it doesn't always make sense, like life, really. Her main character is self destructive, fixated on her ex and not fond of people who go into Artificial Reality with borrowed bodies, particulartly bodies of nine year olds. Which provides a nice little element of bitterness to the fact that the person Konstantin needs to team up with to take down Dervish is a Japanese guy called Goku, who likes going into AR as... (You got it.)
As ever with Cadigan, it's AR not VR, an important distiction and one that makes this much more than recycled cyberpunk.
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