- Paperback: 352 pages
- Publisher: Earthlight; paperback / softback edition (7 Jun 1999)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0671028626
- ISBN-13: 978-0671028626
- Product Dimensions: 17 x 10 x 2.6 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,283,073 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Perhaps the most sublimely silly Utopian novel for years, ThiGMOO-- acronymically, This Great Movement of Ours--is at the same time attractively cynical about human behaviour and motivation. The Museum of the Mind, a collection of erams, virtual representations of imaginary personalities, was put together as an educational aide-- what could be more calculated to interest not very bright students in the rise of feminism than a conversation with a Victorian whore, or in the English Civil War than being shouted at by a ranter? A wave of religious conversions among the erams is but the first of the many problems to hit Daily Mail columnist museum head Sir John; academic skulduggery, the last left-wing hacker in Britain and the First Church of Satan all have a role to play in what follows. And though the erams may have started off as imaginary creations, they rapidly develop an attractive and three-dimensional life of their own--the love affair between streetwalker Nelly and her gallant cavalryman is genuinely touching. Byrne is fascinated both by the minutiae of radical political sects and by the mechanisms of mundane politics; this is an intelligent and thoughtful political satire as well as a very funny one. --Roz Kaveney
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At the University of Wessex, Sir John Westgate and Dr Katherine Beckford have used computer power to create over 200 fictional characters from all periods of history, known as "erams", who respond to questions as a real human being would. With such a wonderful idea, something is bound to go wrong.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Virtual Reality personalities, called erams, created for educational purposes escape and threaten to wreak havoc with the world information systems. The plot is interesting, but not new. I personally did not appreciate the style - it does not really add to the rather thin story. Still, it is readable, sometimes rather funny and mostly enjoyable.
2 of 11 people found the following review helpful
So-cool-he's-arctic Byrne haz a delivery faster & denser than Sam Beckett. Siriously sexy satire from a master ov wickedness: read it or bee terminally godfrey...
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