- Hardcover: 192 pages
- Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicolson (26 Oct 1998)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 1861591225
- ISBN-13: 978-1861591227
- Product Dimensions: 18.4 x 14.2 x 2.6 cm
- Average Customer Review: 3.1 out of 5 stars See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,304,223 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.
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A blisterlingly original and entertaining SF novel from the " Distresingly brilliant " Steve Aylett Dante Cubit nad the Entropy Kid attempt a bank raid in Beerlight - the city where killing a man is less a murder than a mannerism,where false arrest is a moral duty. Moving effortlessly and seamlessly from real world to virtual reality we follow the progress of Dante in his efforts to steal the last book by rabble rouser and street philosopher extroadinaire Eddie Gamete. Meanwhile outside the bank, Blince the local police chief, has closed down the area and deployed demographic cannon. Fortunately he doesn't realise he is in the wrong bank. In a world where guns only shoot those who are asking for it and time locks propel you forward to a place where you've already been arrested, nothing is certain - except that Steve Aylett is taking you on the wildest ride of the imagination that SF has conjured up in the last 5 years.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format: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.
Format: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.
Format: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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Unreadable garbage
It starts out well. All the right 3v1l h4xx0r buttons get pushed. But there's more to writing a novel than spewing out outdated buzzwords, and that's all this has to offer. Read more
Published on 12 Feb 2003 by Andy Dingley
This is a parachute without a ripcord
I mean... wow. I was warned that this book had dense text, but this was incredible. Aylett's head is clearly bursting with ideas and (insane) philosophical thought and most... Read more
Published on 16 Feb 2002 by Mr. James D. Beresford
cyberpuns and cyberguns
Reading Slaughtermatic is a bit like standing on a 200mph train trying to write a letter while next to you a beat poet practices jokes for the Edinburgh festival. Read more
Published on 12 Feb 2001
Derivative rubbish
This book is neither funny nor cool, and it's certainly not cutting edge. It feels like an updated parody of hitch-hikers guide to the galaxy in terms of its style of humour, but... Read more
Published on 4 Jan 2001 by r.boreham@natcen.ac.uk
As good as this sort of thing gets
This book, while you could compare it to a montage of other writers work is almost entirly unique. Very funny, unmissably stylish, and overpoweringly "cool" this book... Read more
Published on 5 May 2000
Original, funny and definately worth a look.
Kafka meets Gibson. If you like the sound of it... you'll like this book.
Published on 23 Mar 2000 by citizenx@cwcom.net
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