- Paperback: 224 pages
- Publisher: Voyager; Advance Copy edition (7 Sep 1998)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0586218424
- ISBN-13: 978-0586218426
- Product Dimensions: 17.5 x 10.9 x 1.8 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 749,838 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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"Take it to the next level! Tea from an Empty Cup is hot, fast, and savagely in control, a voyage to a realm where everything's possible and anything goes, by an author who knows the difference between what's real and what matters. Crank it up, and play it loud." --Michael Swanwick
"Cadigan's first novel in five years exhibits the author's high-impact prose style, eminently suitable for a voyage into the world of high-tech SF." --"Library Journal"
"A tightly plotted, crisply written novel that fits the classic noir mystery template set down by the likes of Raymond Chandler more comfortably than anything William Gibson has ever written." --Andrew Leonard, "Salon "Magazine
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"Cadigan's first novel in five years exhibits the author's high-impact prose style, eminently suitable for a voyage into the world of high-tech SF." --"Library Journal"
"A tightly plotted, crisply written novel that fits the classic noir mystery template set down by the likes of Raymond Chandler more comfortably than anything William Gibson has ever written." --Andrew Leonard, "Salon "Magazine
--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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From ‘the queen of cyberpunk’ (Guardian), a vision of post-apocalyptic AR chic, mayhem and murder featuring the luckless Lieutenant Konstantin.
No matter the blood spilt in AR, surely a body is safe in the real world, you would think, while the game goes on. But Lieutenant Konstantin is looking for the RL killer/s of those sad AR junkies who end up dead in their suits.
In aesthetic pain, up against the latest thing in nervous systems, Konstantin will discover there’s no percentage in getting mad at a subroutine and no point substituting her real self for an avatar. She finally makes it into the heart of the deadly game but will she make it out again?
Junkies meanwhile are looking for another out door, the egress… to online immortality, the chance to be barbarian, vampire, wild-child, homunculus, evolved dragon – anonymity assured whatever the choice – for ever. If all they want is theme parks, no one can make them want anything more, but some players do indeed want more.
They want their world back: Japan. It crumbled beneath the sea in a series of earthquakes, leaving behind poignant memories in exile. With a unique grasp of ritual and the technology concerned, godlike full-Japanese surfers of NETsuke will stop at nothing to create New Japan.
While westerners think using garbage for culture is recycling, the Japanese are using Bunraku puppets to magical effect. Konstantin is in to something much deeper than she ever imagined. And so is the reader.
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4.0 out of 5 stars
Life online...,
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This review is from: Tea from an Empty Cup (Paperback)
A man has his throat cut while immersed in virtual reality and his body in the real world is discovered dead by the same means - police Lieutenant Konstantin enters the virtual world to try and uncover why and how he died...
This is a short but intense science fiction novel, with a highly complex 'whodunit' plot (though thankfully not as impenetrable as the author's 'Fools'), and some inrtuiging musings on the blurred line between virtual reality and real reality. Recommended for fans of intelligent cyberpunk SF.
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outstanding SHORT novel from one of the greats...,
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This review is from: Tea from an Empty Cup (Paperback)
Ignore the beginning, middle and end stuff. Life doesn't work like that. This has the perfection of a Japanese miniature, the weirdness of (well, the truly weird) and a take on society that could only come from La Cadigan. As someone memorably said, 'If you don't like this book you didn't understand it...'
3.0 out of 5 stars
Interesting but unsatisfying.,
By A Customer
This review is from: Tea from an Empty Cup (Paperback)
Sorry Pat you have done much better.This felt more like a short story or novella in length. In fact most of the book seemed to be the intro to a novel and when the end came it was something of a disappointment. I am probably just old fashioned expecting a beginning, middle and end. The basic premise is OK but does not deliver. Read it if you have an hour or so to kill - it will not take much longer.
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