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by Paul Di Filippo (Author) "I'm frictionless, molars, so don't point those flashlights at me ..." (more)
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  • Paperback: 304 pages
  • Publisher: ibooks (Sep 2005)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 1416504206
  • ISBN-13: 978-1416504207
  • Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)

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5.0 out of 5 stars RIBOFUNK, 22 Feb 2003
By timothy a. sherburn (vista, ca USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Ribofunk (Hardcover)
Anyone who is a fan of William Gibson or of the cyber-punk genre of SF should love this collection of short stories. Some of them can be a challenge with all the futuristic slang that is tossed about but who says reading shouldn't envolve a little work on the readers part.
It's different in the sense that it is much more organic than Gibson. To be considered human you have to have a 51% human genome mixed with what ever other animal or plant or whatever you want.
Some of the stories pick up where others leave off and some stand alone. But the last story is one that will stay with you awhile and it does need to be read last to get you into this Strange New World. It is one truly unsettling read.
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5.0 out of 5 stars The way forward, 5 Mar 2002
This review is from: Ribofunk (Hardcover)
I never knew that the english language could be used this way, to convey such superb ideas. The use of slang is stunning.
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4.0 out of 5 stars A great book--inventive possible evolution of language, 4 Nov 1998
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I cannot and do not want to judge if the future described in this book is possible or not, this is out of the question--it is deeply human, therefore real , in it's mixed human-animal and biotechnological way, objectively projecting an internal human reality (our deep dissatisfaction with what we are) and the desire to alter our selves in any possible way--this is our plan and in one way or another we do it and will always do it--from body-piercing to genetic alteration--also, its immaginative slang and jargon, with unexplained terms and inventive expressions makes it even beter--why should all be explained--this book seems as realy written in a possible future --what would a person who lived 100 years ago think of a book written in contemporairy hard slang? How much would he grasp? Do we now bother when writing a book about a reader of the past century? Why should a science fiction writer therefore bother about us now? all he needs to do is convince us that his liguistics are possible---I had a wonderfull time reading it during a 48 hour flight--four planes from Eugene Oregon to Athens Greece...what would I have done when stuck in Frankfurt for 8 hours if I did not have it with me? I would be completely lost! Would'nt I, molars?
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