- Hardcover: 240 pages
- Publisher: Gollancz
- ISBN-10: 0575068736
- ISBN-13: 978-0575068735
- Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 5,424,853 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Hal Halliday's partner Barney Kluger is dead and Hal is keeping the business going without really knowing why. The only person who needs him and who keeps him going is the streetgirl who brings him free meals from her noodle bar. But then a holodrama star approaches Hal to find her sister and Hal is drawn into the world of dreams set up by VR magnate Mantoni. Eric Brown is unique amongst the new generation of British SF writers in the sensitivity and depth of his characterisation. His novels are infused with a strong empathy for ordinary people and display a willingness to examine family, happiness and mortality, using the rules of SF to ask fundamental questions about our lives and beliefs.
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Here in the second book in Eric's Virex trilogy is a story that is part cyberpunk, part Virtual Reality and blended together with Crime Noir as our hero Hal, takes on all comers as he searches for a missing girl. Its quirky, the characters come over well and personable and when you add to the mix saboteurs who seek to destroy VR it's a tale that is quite complex.
All in this strange amalgamation works very well and whilst I've not been Eric's biggest fan, I found myself drawn deeper into this world than I have been in previous outings as Hal was a character I really liked to spend time with. Finally, if you want a tale different to the norm, a calculating hero and a villain of equal proportions then this offering from Anarchy Books really will hit the spot.
All in this strange amalgamation works very well and whilst I've not been Eric's biggest fan, I found myself drawn deeper into this world than I have been in previous outings as Hal was a character I really liked to spend time with. Finally, if you want a tale different to the norm, a calculating hero and a villain of equal proportions then this offering from Anarchy Books really will hit the spot.
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