- Paperback: 368 pages
- Publisher: Pocket Books (5 April 1999)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0671022229
- ISBN-13: 978-0671022228
- Product Dimensions: 19.6 x 13 x 2.5 cm
- Average Customer Review: 3.2 out of 5 stars See all reviews (24 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 437,280 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Steel-eating mutant bacteria have reduced Europe to isolated, barbarous rubble and Nazi cossacks are at the gates of Imperial Paris. LizAlec, adopted daughter of Lady Claire, icily glamourous head of Imperial security, is kidnapped from a lunar Arrivals Lounge on her way to finishing school, and rescued by a one-lunged outcast who keeps his best friend's head in a coolbox. Everyone wants a piece of LizAlec--her mother's rivals, a murderous tele-evangelist who lives in a space ark, her burned-out cyborg rock star boyfriend, and whatever it is that lurks in her own body and makes her surprisingly competent in emergencies. Grimwood has made a modest career out of the realisation that cyberpunk long ago ceased to be the messianic next big thing in sf and became a set of gestures and a marketing ploy. The intelligent absurdities of his plotting, a vein of perverse eroticism, and his love affair with the brand-named impedimenta of an improbable high-tech future, add up to superior brain candy; a caper thriller with ideas in orbit above its station. There is a place for glossy fluff in sf, and Grimwood occupies it with real competence. --Roz Kaveney
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LizAlec is wired for sound, speed and anything else that money can buy. But she's abducted. Her mother's a French minister, who moves Heaven and Earth to find her. Fixx fixes things - recordings, people, anything that makes money. Some of him is almost human. Now he has to find LizAlec.
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9 of 10 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I read this book a while ago, and I can't possibly see how people can shadow this book. The characters are believable and and the story-telling is brutal and inline with the aggressive and often violent, gritty storyline.
This book reads incredibly tightly and the ideas that JCG uses are original and well explained. I think that all credit is due for this book to the author, as the novel reads well and is a good individual statement which thumbs its nose at the conformist way of writing (whirlwind in a teacup).
Whether cyberpunk is, or isnt your deal, this offering is a slap in the face that will leave you wanting to read more. And its a bargain too now that it isnt brand new...
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Sci-fi novels are great. Lacking in credibility maybe, but generally they're great fun, combining brain-stretching ideas with often underrated plotting. William Gibson once wrote a genre-defining novel called 'Neuromancer' in the eighties and started an avalanche of wannabe cyberpunk-novelists. About a decade or so later, Grimwood decides to riff on the cyberpunk idea and produces one of the worst novels of any genre I've ever had the misfortune to read. It's high-octane, ultra-violent soft-core adolescent trash. Clichéd characters, a total lack of new or interesting ideas and a frankly terrible story. In his defence, Grimwood writes with some visceral energy, but he fails to convert this energy to his plotting.
If you like your reading high on action and don't care about being gripped by the story, my advice is to go out and buy a graphic novel instead - there are plenty of great ones around, and many of them offer deeper and more satisfying reads than this. 'reMix' is the kind of novel that gives sci-fi a bad name. Whilst two-dimensional rubbish like this is still being printed, talented writers like Michael Marshall Smith and Jeff Noon will never get the credit they deserve.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Loosk good from the outside, but inside, bog standard and badly written. A couple of interesting ideas, but it didn't make me want to keep reading it. Not at all gripping. It is only 300 pages, I usually read in a couple of days, but this one has been ongoing for a month now, indispersed with others because I got bored. I know it is not quite the same genre as Iain M Banks, but he is for me much more enjoyable and gripping. I keep trying to find a Cyberpunk I'll really get into, but so far none. Any suggestions - and don't even suggest Gibson!
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Most Recent Customer Reviews
Good old fashioned Cyberpunk
A tightly plotted slice of cyberpunk by Grimwood. Unlike other reviews I highly rate his writing style which I found to be both clever and descriptive. A book to enjoy :-)
Published on 19 Jun 2007 by I. Hunter
"Cool" by numbers
Im really into Sci Fi fiction and bought this book hoping (as u do with a new book) to be drawn in from the start. Read more
Published on 18 April 2004 by Matthew Hudson
Pulp scifi (and not in a good way)
Imagine the weird kid you went to school with. You know, the one who put hamsters in microwaves to see them pop, and who used to stare at the pretty girls a bit too intensely, then... Read more
Published on 13 Jan 2004 by Henry Cooke
Huh? What? Who?
I was so impressed with this book I felt compelled to write my first Amazon review and share my experiences with the world.
This book is dreadful. Read more
Published on 30 Sep 2003 by "el_barone"
Mediocre at best
Grimwood has some good ideas but manages to obscure them with a thoroughly improbable plot and weak characterisations. Read more
Published on 22 Aug 2001
Absolute Dribble
Having read everything by Michael Marshall Smith and Jeff Noon with the greatest of pleasure i was hoping that i would be discovering yet another good writer to read. Read more
Published on 22 Aug 2001
A total waste of time and money
Ths is THE WORST cyberpunk novel I have read, and boy have I read a lot!. The plot is just about suitable for Days of our Lives, ie truly awfull. Read more
Published on 16 Aug 2001 by O.A
Grimwood Reviews
... Remix is not Grimwood's strongest work by any means. The Paris sequence lacks a proper finish and the whole Black Hundreds arc ends without really being resolved but Remix is... Read more
Published on 9 July 2001
Science Fiction for people who want to read good books
Demanding, inventive, full of meaning as well as action--Grimwood is proof that the best, most challenging and most entertaining fiction comes out of this often (and wrongly)... Read more
Published on 13 Jun 2001
Well dodgy characters and implausable plot twists.
Just give it a miss. I couldn't keep motivated. One of those "throw-it-across-the-room-in-disgust" moments when it ended. Nothing new. Patronising.
Published on 1 Jun 2001
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