- Paperback: 256 pages
- Publisher: Codex (10 Aug 1999)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 189959812X
- ISBN-13: 978-1899598120
- Product Dimensions: 19.8 x 12.9 x 2.2 cm
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,104,558 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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A contemporary cyberpunk novel which explores the themes of sex, drugs and drum'n'bass. From the author of PERFUMED HEAD.
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New Age Voodoo Tech
28 Feb 2001
Format:Paperback
So, you want to know how to obtain a digital leatherette?
- Take a large dose of Umberto Eco's "Foucault's Pendulum" with its hinting at occult forces and synchronicities unknown to most but used by a few to further their generally unwholesome goals.
- Include a take on history which illustrates the subtile prevalence of said forces.
- Add the 'post' cyberpunk atmosphere (complete with Raves and Trips to the Other Side) of Jeff Noon's "Vurt".
- Spike with of stock-market voodoo and some quantum-mechanical goobledygook.
- Add distillations of shamanism, millenium fever, gnosticism, new-age mythology, a society obsessed with surveillance and Fox Mulder.
- Enhance with references to contemporary cultural icons (like I just did)
- Powder with techspeak and lotsa acronyms. Zap through the channels.
Taste the enjoyable result. Do not look for a story -- let the text sink into you. Match, cross-correlate, flip through the book. Check out your history books. Don't go for linear -- you have been warned!
If you need it, here's the attempt at a
Resumé:
Stardate: 2012. We are reading through a folder of e-mails transmitted to (intercepted? obtained by?) some unspecified entity.
The "authors" of the e-mails include: a reporter interviewing the Last English Pop Star in Antartica, a modern-day voodoo priestess performing at Raves in Battersea, Ukanian (sic) Government snoop units, an intelligent settop box (?) also acting as mole for Special Intelligence, net d00Dz hanging out in a cyberspace autonomous zone, drugged-out chatroom yakkers and excerpts from a text-based MUD which somehow seems to be an allegory of real- life events (but maybe Steve Beard just wanted to fill some pages with that one ?-)
What's it lead up to? The occult forces of good and evil (or just power and antipower?) are playing out their never-ending poker game well hidden behind the facade of real-world political events. The truth is out there! Ukania gets its comeuppance as Queen Elizabeth II is (maybe) assassinated and London financially taken over by the Chinese after the biggest market crash in history.
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