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Trouble and Her Friends (Mass Market Paperback)

by Melissa Scott (Author)
4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)

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  • Mass Market Paperback: 379 pages
  • Publisher: Tor Books; Reprint edition (Nov 1998)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0812522133
  • ISBN-13: 978-0812522136
  • Product Dimensions: 17.2 x 10.8 x 2.8 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 759,103 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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"A gritty, real-feeling book about sexy women from the punk side of the tracks, empowered by the nets but managing not to be corrupted by power: and a wry and interesting look at what happens when the law moves in on the wild cyberspace frontier." -Gwyneth Jones, author of "White Queen"


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One hundred years in the future, someone steals Trouble's identity on the computer nets and she, the greatest hacker of them all, returns from retirement to track down and confront the imposter in the strange, constantly-changing world of computer reality. Reissue. AB. PW.

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5.0 out of 5 stars One Very Tasty Story, 27 Jul 1999
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I have been reading Melissa Scott for years and I never saw anything like this before. It fairly outshines the very most awesome of her works, I was blown away. Could not put it down, can't believe it is the same writer as "Dreamships" (which is a great book in it's own right) but "Trouble and Her Friends" - well, it is inventive and delicious. I want more!
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3.0 out of 5 stars Good Cyberpunk - BUT- Way too long, 2 Dec 1998
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Scott has written an interesting, but typical mainstream book. I'm not sure it rates all the accolades it seems to draw. I've been a devotee of cyberpunk, sci-fi, and hard edged writing for along time. Net writing needs to be fast, tight, and with a continuous edge to it. This isn't.

There are some great sections in this book: they're hard, and fast, and flowing, with great potential for visualization. Yet they appear to be bound together with afterthought. It reads as if Scott wrote several strong scenes and then loosely tied them together. I found myself looking ahead of my place on more than one occasion, especially with the repetative net node descriptions, and was able to loose neither plot nor character development.

So I rate this fair. It's a good read but nothing special.

My only other comment is a question. Are we being set up, during the denouement, for the return of Trouble? As a shorter story I hope so.

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4.0 out of 5 stars Amazing insight into the high intrigue and cyberpunk, 18 Jul 1998
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When I first started to read this book I stumbled with it at first the characters where not very developed and lacked some interest. But once the story started to fit together the characters and their motivations came out with amazing clarity. The view of the "Matrix" has always beguiled me and I have sought many books to leanr more and be entertained by the different notions of how interfacing with such technology will happen... One of the best books I have bought in awhile. My only stumbling point was the smack in the face of the sexual relations of this book... but if you have read Scott's other books you will find this book is much tamer than her other.....
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