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The Red Men (Paperback)

by Matthew de Abaitua (Author)
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  • Paperback: 384 pages
  • Publisher: Snowbooks; UK open market ed edition (1 Oct 2007)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 190500558X
  • ISBN-13: 978-1905005581
  • Product Dimensions: 19.2 x 13 x 3 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 214,676 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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'Lewes, Sussex, where this column began all those horned moons ago. As I walk from the station under another horned moon I spy, standing outside a cosy looking pub, the cuddly dolmen of Matthew De Abaitua. Thirteen years ago, Matthew - who is now a talented novelist in his own right - spent a six-month sojourn as my live-in amanuensis and secretary. It was a thankless task: so far as I can remember I was completely spark-a-loco. We were living in a tiny cottage in Suffolk, and I was given to harvesting opium from the poppies that grew wild in the field margins, then driving my Citroen deux-chevaux across the same fields, solely by the light of a horned moon, Matthew placidly crammed into the passenger seat." Will Self in the Independent.


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Nelson used to be a radical journalist, but now he works for Monad, one of the world's leading corporations. Monad make the Dr Easys, the androids which patrol London's streets: assisting police, easing tensions, calming the populace. But Monad also makes the Red Men - tireless, intelligent, creative and entirely virtual corporate workers - and it's looking to expand the programme. So Nelson is put in charge of Redtown: a virtual city, inhabited by copies of real people going about their daily business, in which new policies, diseases and disasters can be studied in perfect simulation. Nelson finds himself at the helm of a grand project whose goals appear increasingly authoritarian and potentially catastrophic. As the boundaries between Redtown and the real world become ever more brittle, and revolutionary factions begin to align themselves against the Red Men, Nelson finds himself forced to choose sides: Monad or his family, the corporation or the community, the real or the virtual. "The Red Men" is at heart a novel about a character wrestling with his conscience, set against a pervasive and Orwellian vision of contemporary society: surveillance, automation, biotechnology, and their implications for our humanity.

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars Recommended., 22 Oct 2007
By Eva S (Glasgow) - See all my reviews
This is a brilliant read, a first novel full of technology-bewitched ideas and sharp, modern imagery of landscapes, workspaces and despair. There are evocative lines of prose and great one-liners, and the novel is tied together by the exploration of the mind and reality. It's rough around the edges in a way that makes me excited to see this author's talent develop. I had some rare moments of real connection with this work, I feel that it is expressing something important about the modern condition.
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars Philip K Dick for contemporary Britain, 13 Nov 2007
By Mr. D. Etherington "Dether" (London, UK) - See all my reviews
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De Abaitua's debut novel is an excellent read. If you like Philip K Dick, or like you literary fiction to have some science fiction elements, or your SF to be more literary, this is a must.

Like Philip K Dick, De Abaitua chronicles that sense of bewilderment with life, bafflement at the changing world, at technology and progress and how your mind struggles to reconcile with it, while you're still gripped, fascinated.

It's gripping, horrifying, pertinent and a fascinating potrait of the modern world (specifically London's Hackney and Canary Wharf, and other parts of Britain), twisted slightly but still recognisable: for how the marketeers manipulate society, how we mortgage our souls to technology, and for how we feel torn between nature and nurture, tradition and innovation.
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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Trans Genre, 10 April 2008
By Mr. Ian R. Sibert "Sibbo" (Wonderful Warrington. The beating heart of the Mersey Riviera!) - See all my reviews
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'I felt like I was chairing a group therapy session for the four horsemen of the apocalypse'.
We all prefer a certain 'type', whether in music, film or literature, or in most other matters. If the object of our attention belongs to this type we will generally appreciate it, even if the quality is not high. Others, who do not share our taste, will probably not appreciate the poor quality effort that happens to fall into the genre we prefer.
There are films, songs and books that cross this divide. They have a quality about them that makes the experience ejoyable, even for those who would not normally appreciate the genre. There are great rap songs! No really, there are.
This book is one of those works that is of such a high standard that it should be appreciated by any reader. The fiction is based around science (or technology), the novel, therefore, falls into the category of science fiction. The characters are so well drawn, the scenes so well set and the plot unfolds in such a way that this book is accessible to readers of most types of fiction. The author's use of the English language is quite brilliant without being pretentious.
I understand that this is the first novel from this particular writer, I am looking forward to reading his future efforts.
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5.0 out of 5 stars A Philip K Dick for today?
Individualism, creativism, artificial intelligence, gnosticism, corporate entities crushing the little man, mental illness, drugs, classical allusions and a sense of humour can... Read more
Published 5 months ago by S. Bentley

5.0 out of 5 stars Come for the idea, stay for the beautiful writing
This isn't a sci-fi novel. It's a literary novel with a sci-fi theme. Matthew De Abaitua has been a master-craftsman of the language ever since he started writing short stories... Read more
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5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent piece of sci fi
I thoroughly enjoyed this book, I had not read anything by de abaitua before and found this a very clever and entetaining piece.
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