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Are you looking for Nemo, or are you looking for no-one? Gordon (or 'Nemo' as he's known in a variety of internet chatrooms) finds himself rudely awakened to the reality of his mundane existence. It turns out that far from being a workaday Database Coordinator, he is the inadvertent slave of Evil Machine Intelligences(TM) who are keeping his body sealed in a virtual-reality pod whilst distracting his mind with an elaborate virtual world. He, like the bulk of humanity(but not you, because you're reading this book which is about this world being a virtual world and how could that happen?), is trapped in the McAtrix. But his awakener, the leader of the human resistance (the virile though small-framed Smurpheus) wants to do more than just free Nemo from this illusion. He thinks Nemo may be special. He thinks that Nemo just might be the No One, the nonentity whose ego is so insignificant it can confront the celebrity-obsessed McAtrix on its own terms and bring it down.

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Are you looking for Nemo, or are you looking for no-one? Gordon (or 'Nemo' as he's known in a variety of internet chatrooms) finds himself rudely awakened to the reality of his mundane existence. It turns out that far from being a workaday Database Coordinator, he is the inadvertent slave of Evil Machine Intelligences who are keeping his body sealed in a virtual-reality pod whilst distracting his mind with an elaborate virtual world. He, like the bulk of humanity(but not you, because you're reading this book which is about this world being a virtual world and how could that happen?), is trapped in the McAtrix. But his awakener, the leader of the human resistance (the virile though small-framed Smurpheus) wants to do more than just free Nemo from this illusion. He thinks Nemo may be special. He thinks that Nemo just might be the No One, the nonentity whose ego is so insignificant it can confront the celebrity-obsessed McAtrix on its own terms and bring it down.

Gordon tries to get interested in Smurpheus' plans for the liberation of the whole of enslaved humanity, but the truth is he's more concerned with trying to summon the courage to ask the gorgeous latex-clad Thinity out on a date ...Is this life, this bizarre matrix we're all caught up in, beyond parody now? Ooh no we don't think so ...

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Most Helpful Customer Reviews   1 of 2 people found the following review helpful: Why?, 3 Jun 2005 By  J. R. S. Morrison "Bibliomane" (Adelaide, SA, Australia) - See all my reviews    The parody books Adam Roberts has been churning out under various names - parodies of the Matrix, the Hobbit, the Silmarillion, Star Wars, etc - need to be stamped out! I truly enjoyed his first few proper novels (especially Stone and Polystom), but his recent The Snow showed serious, debilitating flaws. My thesis is that if he spent less time on these frivolous, unfunny take-offs and more on his proper books, everybody would be better off. I beg him! Stop!  Comment | Permalink | Was this review helpful to you?