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Jon Courtenay Grimwood
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Remix Paperback – 5 April 1999

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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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  1. Print length
    368 pages
  2. Language
    English
  3. Publisher
    Pocket Books
  4. Publication date
    5 April 1999
  5. ISBN-10
    0671022229
  6. ISBN-13
    978-0671022228
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  • Wislon55
    5.0 out of 5 stars Five Stars
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 17 April 2015
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    Great book - interesting series with some wild ideas
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  • "deft_one_uk"
    5.0 out of 5 stars whats everybodies problem?
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 13 September 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...
    10 people found this helpful
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  • Brian B
    1.0 out of 5 stars Huh? What? Who?
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 30 September 2003
    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. JCG's writing style is nigh-on impossible to follow. Environments, characters, technology and whole chapters are left completely unexplained or hanging in the air.
    Call me old fashioned, but using expletives in the narrative is bad taste and implies a profound lack of adjectives in JCG's vocabulary.
    However outrageous the storyline, however far removed from real life, the overall effect an author presents must be believable, or he must convince the reader that there is the potential for it to be real. JCG fails to do either of these things, particularly in the rather hazy finale, and leaves me with a book (borrowed, fortunately) that left me shamefully unsatisfied.
    In summary, the whole book can be summed up in one word: unlikely.
    3 people found this helpful
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  • Stuart Mcmillan
    4.0 out of 5 stars fast paced cyber noir
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 25 May 2000
    Read the book, enjoy it.
    From the opening scenes to the finale, frenetic pace and action make this book a 5/5 page turner.
    Don't expect depth - of character or plot! Just enjoy the tangle of cables that make up the plotlines, and let the story carry you along.
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  • Henry Cooke
    2.0 out of 5 stars Pulp scifi (and not in a good way)
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 13 January 2004
    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, then vanish off to the toilets for a while.
    Now, imagine that kid reads some Gibson, a bit of Stephenson and skims Noon in a pretty cursory way. This is the novel that kid would write.
    I really tried to like this book: after reading the above authors to death, I was hungry for more cyberpunk. I kept forcing my way through the adolescent sex and violence, the sub-Gibson environment, sub-Noon cyberdelica and woeful technology in the hope that something would eventually "click" and I'd suddenly *get it* and be able to enjoy reading. Didn't happen. I remained annoyed with the writing from start to finish (incidentally, mixedCaps brandNames were never cool. Not when they were around for about 5 minutes in the mid-90s, and not in this book).
    It's a real shame that the style is so bad, because there's some genuinely good ideas in there: the steel-eating plague, the geopolitical setup of Grimwood's world and the plot aren't bad. It's just dressed up in so much pap that it's really hard to keep going. Do yourself a favour and read something by the other authors mentioned here or in other reviews.
    4 people found this helpful
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  • Matthew Hudson
    1.0 out of 5 stars "Cool" by numbers
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 18 April 2004
    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. But as i began reading this book it was like reading anything and everything aimed at sudo-alternative teenagers that like to be "different" in the most mainstream way. It has everything needed to make it "cool" in the most irritable way, a prime example of this is the sassy, self-important, rebelious teenage girl character (dont we all love those ...). A hugely unorigional character seen in a million TV shows, books, movies and countless other medium under different names. This book Trys so hard to be cool, and theres nothing more anoying than that.
    3 people found this helpful
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  • O.A
    1.0 out of 5 stars A total waste of time and money
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 16 August 2001
    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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