- Paperback: 181 pages
- Publisher: Phoenix; New edition edition (5 Aug 1999)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0753807408
- ISBN-13: 978-0753807408
- Product Dimensions: 19.6 x 13 x 1.8 cm
- Average Customer Review: 3.1 out of 5 stars See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,015,681 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Steve Aylett's Slaughtermatic is enacted in a parodic, cyberpunk world in which crime has become an individualistic and self-evolutionary art. Dante, the protagonist, plans to rob a bank with the help of Download Jones, a human meat puppet whose personality is live on the Net, and Kid Entropy, whose Kafkacell weapon bonds with his psyche to produce a suicide-wannabe who can only kill others. With the vault scan code in his pocket, Dante is duplicated in a time shift that puts him virtually ahead of the actual event--and able to enter the vault undetected. His crime and the action-filled plot become complicated when his second self, Dante Two, refuses to sacrifice himself as planned, murderous Brute Parker is set on Dante's trail and Rosa Control takes matters into her own razor-bladed hands. Into the melee steps Eddie Gamete, the presumed-dead postmodern prankster-philosopher, Dante's only hero and the author of The Impossible Plot of Biff Barbanel, a book no reader can survive. Expectations about what and who is real change like television channels in Dante's world, where fates much worse than death await. --Geoff Beos
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A blisteringly original and entertaining parody of our cyber-technology driven future from a young British author
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1.0 out of 5 stars
Cyberpunk self parody,
This review is from: Slaughtermatic (Paperback)
I haven't hated a CP novel so much since Tom Maddox's "Halo". OK - so it's funny now and then - but most of the jokes are puns and the action just serves the jokes. Go read some Gibson or Sterling, or try Tricia Sullivan's "Dreaming in Smoke" if you want a good newcommer.
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This review is from: Slaughtermatic (Hardcover)
Right... Find somewhere quiet, turn off the mobile and look away fromt the TV. Distractions really don't help when you're reading this book. Give it your undivided attention and it will reward you with some of the sharpest humour and serpentine plot turns. Read it casually and you will find it apparently esoteric.Brilliant similies, great one-liners (both of which you will inevitably include into your vocabulary as soon as you read them) and a solid plot which makes the work you have to put in to get from page to page well worth it.
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This book defines my idea of what style should be...,
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This review is from: Slaughtermatic (Hardcover)
At first glance, 'Slaughtermatic' seems heavy going. The plot is not immediately obvious, and the locale and characters are are not, at least to me, familiar. What you have to read on to realise is that the almost solid quotable quotable quotes, one-liners, instant street-slang and sheer cool makes it almost irrelevant why things happen. In fact, thanf funk it is not familiar, as this is a place you would not want to live, but cannot help but be a little envious of the relaxed lack of any moral, physical or metaphysical restraint. The action takes place in a place called Beerlight, a member of the Seceded States where assassins are the only celebrities, the innocent are only so as long as the stay clear of the Brotherhood [police] and the Perjury [Court] Room, but generally don't live long enough anyway. I would compare this to other books and films, but I don't know any to compare it to. Cartoon-like style, the essence of cool, and very, very bright. Buy it now.
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