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Remix (Earthlight) (Paperback)

by Jon Courtenay Grimwood (Author)
3.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (24 customer reviews)

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  • Paperback: 368 pages
  • Publisher: Pocket Books (5 April 1999)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0671022229
  • ISBN-13: 978-0671022228
  • Product Dimensions: 19.6 x 13 x 2.5 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 3.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (24 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 178,094 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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Amazon.co.uk Review

Steel-eating mutant bacteria have reduced Europe to isolated, barbarous rubble and Nazi cossacks are at the gates of Imperial Paris. LizAlec, adopted daughter of Lady Claire, icily glamourous head of Imperial security, is kidnapped from a lunar Arrivals Lounge on her way to finishing school, and rescued by a one-lunged outcast who keeps his best friend's head in a coolbox. Everyone wants a piece of LizAlec--her mother's rivals, a murderous tele-evangelist who lives in a space ark, her burned-out cyborg rock star boyfriend, and whatever it is that lurks in her own body and makes her surprisingly competent in emergencies. Grimwood has made a modest career out of the realisation that cyberpunk long ago ceased to be the messianic next big thing in sf and became a set of gestures and a marketing ploy. The intelligent absurdities of his plotting, a vein of perverse eroticism, and his love affair with the brand-named impedimenta of an improbable high-tech future, add up to superior brain candy; a caper thriller with ideas in orbit above its station. There is a place for glossy fluff in sf, and Grimwood occupies it with real competence. --Roz Kaveney


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LizAlec is wired for sound, speed and anything else that money can buy. But she's abducted. Her mother's a French minister, who moves Heaven and Earth to find her. Fixx fixes things - recordings, people, anything that makes money. Some of him is almost human. Now he has to find LizAlec.
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9 of 10 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars whats everybodies problem?, 13 Sep 2002
I read this book a while ago, and I can't possibly see how people can shadow this book. The characters are believable and and the story-telling is brutal and inline with the aggressive and often violent, gritty storyline.

This book reads incredibly tightly and the ideas that JCG uses are original and well explained. I think that all credit is due for this book to the author, as the novel reads well and is a good individual statement which thumbs its nose at the conformist way of writing (whirlwind in a teacup).

Whether cyberpunk is, or isnt your deal, this offering is a slap in the face that will leave you wanting to read more. And its a bargain too now that it isnt brand new...

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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars A total waste of time and money, 16 Aug 2001
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Ths is THE WORST cyberpunk novel I have read, and boy have I read a lot!. The plot is just about suitable for Days of our Lives, ie truly awfull. Where the plot gets too thin, Grimwwod has punctuated it with highly graphic sex and violence, neither of which are even vaugely compelling, and just tend to iritate! There is ONE good idea in the book, that being the anti-steel nano virus thing. Unfortuneately, this is basically left in the background in favour of the travels of the highly irritating main character and his pointless and inane travels. If you wanted to read cyberpunk, try Neal Stephenson, Jeff Noon or Michael Marshall Smith (who does what Grimwood fails to do effortlessly, write fluid, funny pageturning cyber-novels, as opposed to the more complex works of the other authors mentioned). All of these are also recomened by other reviewers here, get the message... Lastly, and I hate to have to TELL people this, just go and find a copy of Neuromancer by William Gibson, since reading this will make it clear that the only place for grimwood's novels is blessed obscurity!
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1.0 out of 5 stars I didn't know they still printed this kind of rubbish..., 4 Jul 2001
Sci-fi novels are great. Lacking in credibility maybe, but generally they're great fun, combining brain-stretching ideas with often underrated plotting. William Gibson once wrote a genre-defining novel called 'Neuromancer' in the eighties and started an avalanche of wannabe cyberpunk-novelists. About a decade or so later, Grimwood decides to riff on the cyberpunk idea and produces one of the worst novels of any genre I've ever had the misfortune to read. It's high-octane, ultra-violent soft-core adolescent trash. Clichéd characters, a total lack of new or interesting ideas and a frankly terrible story. In his defence, Grimwood writes with some visceral energy, but he fails to convert this energy to his plotting.

If you like your reading high on action and don't care about being gripped by the story, my advice is to go out and buy a graphic novel instead - there are plenty of great ones around, and many of them offer deeper and more satisfying reads than this. 'reMix' is the kind of novel that gives sci-fi a bad name. Whilst two-dimensional rubbish like this is still being printed, talented writers like Michael Marshall Smith and Jeff Noon will never get the credit they deserve.

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4.0 out of 5 stars Good old fashioned Cyberpunk
A tightly plotted slice of cyberpunk by Grimwood. Unlike other reviews I highly rate his writing style which I found to be both clever and descriptive. A book to enjoy :-)
Published on 19 Jun 2007 by I. Hunter

1.0 out of 5 stars "Cool" by numbers
Im really into Sci Fi fiction and bought this book hoping (as u do with a new book) to be drawn in from the start. Read more
Published on 18 April 2004 by Matthew Hudson

2.0 out of 5 stars Pulp scifi (and not in a good way)
Imagine the weird kid you went to school with. You know, the one who put hamsters in microwaves to see them pop, and who used to stare at the pretty girls a bit too intensely,... Read more
Published on 14 Jan 2004 by Henry Cooke

1.0 out of 5 stars Huh? What? Who?
I was so impressed with this book I felt compelled to write my first Amazon review and share my experiences with the world.

This book is dreadful. Read more

Published on 1 Oct 2003 by el_barone

3.0 out of 5 stars Mediocre at best
Grimwood has some good ideas but manages to obscure them with a thoroughly improbable plot and weak characterisations. Read more
Published on 23 Aug 2001

1.0 out of 5 stars Absolute Dribble
Having read everything by Michael Marshall Smith and Jeff Noon with the greatest of pleasure i was hoping that i would be discovering yet another good writer to read. Read more
Published on 22 Aug 2001

5.0 out of 5 stars Grimwood Reviews
... Remix is not Grimwood's strongest work by any means. The Paris sequence lacks a proper finish and the whole Black Hundreds arc ends without really being resolved but Remix is... Read more
Published on 9 Jul 2001

5.0 out of 5 stars Science Fiction for people who want to read good books
Demanding, inventive, full of meaning as well as action--Grimwood is proof that the best, most challenging and most entertaining fiction comes out of this often (and wrongly)... Read more
Published on 14 Jun 2001

1.0 out of 5 stars Well dodgy characters and implausable plot twists.
Just give it a miss. I couldn't keep motivated. One of those "throw-it-across-the-room-in-disgust" moments when it ended. Nothing new. Patronising.
Published on 1 Jun 2001

4.0 out of 5 stars A fast, furious and intelligent read.
Breathtaking action scenes, blink-and-you'll-miss 'em plot turns and weirder than weird characters (although there is something peversely attractive about cyber-rocker Fixx - mind... Read more
Published on 21 May 2001

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