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The eagerly awaited modern remake of the TV classic Lost in Space is a star-studded special effects spectacular, featuring Gary Oldman, William Hurt, Matt LeBlanc, Mimi Rogers and Heather Grahamnot to mention their cantankerous clanking colleague, the most expensive, most complicated (and most dangerous!) cinematic robot ever permitted to work with live actors.

Award-winning SF author Pat Cadigan was on the set from start to finishpoking, prying and prodding everyone from Director to Star to SFX Wizard to Grip. What she wanted was the insidestory of the of this extraordinary production; and what she got is all here, including:

The weirdest, wildest wrap party ever!

The set so huge that two studios had to be nailed together

The robot that cloned itself

Intimate interviews with cast and crew

Dr. Smith's creepynew look

The secret wedding of CGI and live action

"Will makes new friends!"

Three days in the City of the Future

Tech notes: from Brazil to Alien to the Robinsons

Meet a table-hopper from Party of Five

Inside the "Creature Shop"

The Henson connection

Four actors in one body

And much, much more! ... Read more

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Poor graphics, imcomplete info.
Many shots in this book lack interesting features and are there just to fill space. Also many images are blury and it does not even tell anything about the movie soundtrack, which I know inclues excellent songs by Apollo440 and a joint venture by Juno Reactor and The Creatures.

Danger, Will Robinson!
I was impressed by the motion picture remake of the old "Lost in Space" TV series: the sets, costumes, effects, and other elements were obviously conceived and designed with great care and professionalism. "The Making of Lost in Space," by Pat Cadigan, is a documentary look at the making of the motion picture.

Cadigan discusses the process of transforming the elements of the familiar 60s TV series into a film. The book contains many fascinating concept drawings of the visual elements that eventually were used. Many "behind-the-scenes" artists and technicians get some well-deserved recognition.

I don't know what the future holds for this sci-fi franchise. But this book is a treat for "Lost in Space" fans anyway.

An incredible 750 FX shots movie
If you're looking for a wireframe images and transforming them into a realSpecial Effects,a hundreds of shots from the movie set,tons of images fromthe movie and the movie set,detailed making of almost every Special Effectused in the movie then this is what you've been looking for. You won'tregret it! ... Read more

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Jason Voorhees isresurrected and captured by the army who skin graft parts of his body onto another human, thereby creating a "super soldier". ... Read more

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Jason X #2 - Good story, but . . . .
Well, to start off, I thought this was a good sequel to Jason X, with the rebuilt Uberjason being captured by scientists in the future and experimented on by a government wanting a supersoldier, until Jason gets loose and all hell starts breaking loose again.The potential for a good old-fashioned slasher was quite present, though the sci-fi angle was interesting too, as the scientists tried to understand the merging of machine and flesh now present in Jason, which is apparently supposed to be impossible. But then, Jason's always had a knack for pulling off the impossible, hasn't he?

Unfortunately, the part that made it hard for me to make it through this book was the rather excessive amount of detail of each and every character and object in the background, which is why I'm only giving it four stars, because the sheer amount of detail sometimes made it hard to continue.

This is something I've come to expect with certain authors, but when the action finally begins, and the blood-bath begins, I found myself making the same surprised noises as when I watch Jason's movies, so while slow at times, I did enjoy the book.If you're a Jason fan, and you enjoyed Jason X, as I did, then by all means, read this sequel.

Stick to the subject at hand
Being a bit of a fanboy when it comes to Friday the 13th and Jason Voorhees, I pick up this book along with the novelization of "Jason X". I liked Jason X as it stuck to the movie and then added plausible backgrounds to the characters. "Jason X: The Experiment" falls far short of being a good addition to the franchise.

The author spends the majority of the book introducing characters with backgrounds and lagging on and on with nothing very interesting happening. Sure there's a nutjob that is trying to clone Jason for a super-soldier program in the future setting on Earth II, but the characters are more annoying than anything. Now I will admit that there stands to be no chance of a plot in a series about Jason Voorhees, I'll also admit that I picked these up because every once in a while I need to read a mindless brain jelly book. I did expect more than this though.

I feel the biggest problem in the book is that it's part of the new Jason X series but Jason is barely even in the book. His regeneration is dealt with in the beginning, he whacks a couple eco-terrorists, and then he's a statue for the majority of the book, barely getting any mention throughout the body of the book. He then finally gets some action in the last 75 pages, if that. Here we have a case of someone wanting to write a sci-fi story and is authorized to use an established copyrighted character and then the franchise player is barely used in the book.

Plain and simple, if you're going to write a book about Jason Voorhees, you need to use him throughout the book, not as an intro piece and a poor conclusion wrap up. It's not a bad story, mind you, just a bad use of the character. To be honest, people will buy this book because we want to see Jason in slaughter mode, high body count, and inventive ways he offs his victims. I appreciate the effort, but if writing about Jason, then write about Jason not a pile of characters that serve little purpose.

JASON X: THE EXPERIMENT: Good concept, okay novel
When I first found this novel in a local bookstore, I was pretty excited. I'm a fan of horror movies, and I took a particular shine to the movie Jason X (being a sci-fi fan as well). I knew that Jason X was a critical failure, however, and had little hope of the story going any farther than the one movie. Needless to say, the discovery of the book was a pleasent suprise; I bought it immediately and read it within two weeks.

I think it only fair to point out that "The Experiment" is almost nothing like the movie it continues off of. Whereas Jason X was filled with plenty of interesting science fiction bits, "The Experiment" features almost nothing until the end, and at times I felt that it could just as easily taken place in the present. Though this isn't a major gripe, it still took something away from the book.

My bigger complaint, however, is the excessiveness of the book. "The Experiment" is over 400 pages, and yet the majority of this is focussed on introducing characters that were either inconsequential or, at worst, extremely booring, and then forcing us to wade through their personal stories until, at the end, they are either killed (which I was immensly glad about, at times) or left dangling, their fates left up in the air. Sure, another book is forthcoming, but the ending still seems too sudden, and the epilogue makes NO SENSE WHATSOEVER.

All in all, I'd say that "The Experiment" is a decent book, but too little Jason and too many other people puts a damper on a good concept. 4 out of 5.

Good new Uber-Jason story
I loved this new adventure about Uber-jason (the new jason Voorhees from Jason X movie). It's very well written and the story is interesting. I liked the cooperation between Jason and the nano-ants. If u loved the movie u'll love this one too, if not it's a good opportunity to re-considering the Jason x Franchise ( at least on novel).

Nothing more than a simple "good read"
A Jason X book series.That sounded a little edgy at first, but I guess New Line Cinema will do just about anything they can to make money.Despite myself and the fact that I thought turning the concept into a book series was completely stupid, I bought the book at it took me about five days to read all the way through.I was mildly surprised, but I came to find that the whole thing was just like reading a long, weird science fiction soap opera, with a little military action, some gunfire, and guest starring our own anti-life anti-hero, Jason Voorhees.I won't ruin anything about the book for you, but I will tell you that way too much time is spent describing some characters that are completely ignored throughout throughout the rest of the novel, which was an example of either bad story construction or just bad editing.All in all, "Jason X: The Experiment" was a good read, but nothing to get excited about, and it made the author look a little bit like a Stephen King wannabe.Thanks for reading. ... Read more

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A young man who has just stolen a car receives a bizarre telephone call from a woman who claims that she has been kidnapped and desperately tries to enlist his help to free her. Original. (A New Line Cinema film, releasing June 2004, starring Kim Basinger & Chris Evans) (Suspense). ... Read more

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"How can you drink tea from an empty cup?"

That ancient Zen riddle holds the key to a baffling mystery: a young man found with his throat slashed while locked alone in a virtual reality parlor.

The secret of this enigmatic death lies in an apocalyptic cyberspace shadow-world where nothing is certain, and even one's own identity can change in an instant.
Amazon.com Review
Two-time Arthur C. Clarke Award winner for Best Novel, Pat Cadigan is theQueen of Cyberpunk for the brilliance of her ideas, the genius of hernear-future extrapolations, and the beauty of her writing. No one else hasexplored and illuminated the mind-machine interface with the keen andrelentless intelligence she demonstrates in her novels Mindplayers,Synners, Fools, and the long-awaited Tea from an EmptyCup. Her fourth novel is a perceptive, fascinating, witty SF mystery ofartificial reality, whose paradoxical name perfectly defines itsnature: an immaterial world of pure sensation, where, by legal mandate,everything is permitted and nothing is forbidden.

The hazards of Artificial Reality are spilling into the real world--peoplevanish and solitary gamers are found slain in sealed AR booths.The youngwoman Yuki, child of a Japan destroyed before her birth, enters AR as thenew assistant to the mysterious celebrity Joy Flower, but with her ownagenda:to find Tom Iguchi, her missing beloved, who never was her loverbut had been one of Joy's Boyz.The hard-boiled homicide detective DoreKonstantin stalks the virtual streets of post-Apocalyptic Noo Yawk Sittyseeking a serial killer who may have murdered eight gamers frominside AR itself.But how do you find missing or hidden persons in a worldwhere nothing is as it seems? The two plot lines subtlyconverge as fact and fantasy, murderer and victim, as well as understanding andidentity invert in a virtual universe where the dangers arerealand ever-present, and you can be anything or anyone butyourself. --Cynthia Ward ... Read more

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Good, Just Not Great
I thoroughly enjoy reading Cyberpunk / Sci-Fi, as well as Modern and Classic Literature, and Mysteries - and with that said, I liked "Tea From An Empty Cup".I received it as a requested gift for Xmas.It was certainly not as great to me as "Snow Crash" or "Neuromancer", but nonetheless, good.If you're a Cyberpunk purist, you may dislike this novel because it mixes a somewhat-noir mystery into a cyberpunk world, but I enjoyed that.However, the soliloquies / inner dialogues of the protagonists in each story were ackward and not believable.

Virtual murder mystery that is more accessible than her earlier books
The speculative fiction of the 1980s and the early 1990s by and large treated Japan as an economic powerhouse that threatened to subsume the United States and Europe -- mirroring, unsurprisingly, the view that prevailed in the culture at large. Japanese companies outperformed their American counterparts in the marketplace, at times even buying up their flailing and failing rivals. Cultural icons such as Rockefeller Center became Japanese property. The Japanese economy was booming, while Europe and the United States struggled in the aftermath of funding the defense systems of the Cold War. From William Gibson's Neuromancer to Neal Stephenson's Snow Crash, the clear assumption was that the future belonged to Japan.

In the latter part of the 1990s, things have changed: the United States is riding an unprecedented wave of prosperity while Japan is caught in a financial crisis that covers the whole Pacific Rim. Speculative fiction has responded (as it should) to these altered circumstances, nowhere more clearly than in Pat Cadigan's new novel, Tea from an Empty Cup, an expansion and grafting-together of two earlier stories about the future of Japan which were originally published on OMNI Online. Instead of the Rising Sun, Cadigan shows us a Japan where the sun has set on its glory days.

The plot of Tea from an Empty Cup centers on the murder of an anonymous Artificial Reality (AR) junky and its investigation by policewoman Dore Konstantin. The victim, whose throat has been cut from ear to ear, was accessing the AR at the time of his death -- and was being murdered there as well. Everyone knows, of course, that what occurs in AR cannot affect the real world, but Konstantin is starting to wonder: Rumors of similar AR deaths have been circulating that indicate something unusual is going on. Intermixed with Konstantin's investigation (which occurs in numbered chapters under the title of "Death in the Promised Land") is a second storyline, a search for the missing Tomoyuki Iguchi by his friend (and would-be lover) Yuki, told in chapters under the heading of "Empty Cup." Yuki fears that Tom has become one of the many lost Joyz Boyz, young men who exchange their bodies for high-speed AR access.

The hunt for friend and murderer by Yuki and Konstantin spiral around each other as they each pursue their searches into post-apocalyptic Noo Yawk Sitty, an AR that promises fun for all, as long as you have the resources to pay for it. Survival in AR requires a mental dexterity that can easily drive someone insane, and neither woman is particularly adept at navigating the make-believe world. Both must learn how to survive in this new setting before they can make progress on their quests. It is in the heady rush to the end, as the stories spiral around each other faster and faster, like water down the drain, that the novel is at its weakest, for Cadigan's prose becomes more and more concise and we lose some of the depth of the setting and characters that has been established earlier.

Tea from an Empty Cup is less densely layered than Cadigan's previous novels Fools and Synners, but it is filled with the same streetwise characters who know that, when it comes to technology, "the street finds its own uses." Cadigan's characters are the ultimate cynics and pessimists, who are nevertheless still surprised when their dim worldview is validated. In this way, Cadigan's cyberpunk (for this is the subgenre of which she is queen) is different from that of her male counterparts, most of whose visions of the future are equally bleak but whose characters lack this quality of surprisability. Yuki and Konstantin are hardened to their world, but they are still human enough to hope for better. While the flash of Tea comes from the same elements as other cyberpunk novels, what makes the story resonate with the reader long after the last page is this vestigial morality in its characters, who are trying to maintain some dignity in a world that is being made before them.

Zen Meets Cyberpunk
If you can wrap your mind around Zen concepts you might want to check out TEA FROM AN EMPTY CUP by Pat Cadigan, a short, but good, novel that takes a slightly Zen approach to the idea of virtual reality.

Virtual reality is here and it is cheap enough so that much of the population works just to live their lives in some of the virtual scenarios.One young man is found dead in a locked room where he was logged in.His throat was cut and there are no sharp objects in the room.A detective notices that a number of other similar deaths have occurred recently.Thus two quests are taken up as two women log in disguised as the young man and try to find out what he was doing and who he may have met.It is a strange world where things are more real than real.Sensations are heightened and rumors exist of a way out the other side.It is this world that the two women must navigate to find out what happened.

The switching viewpoints are a little more confusing that is usual but the future world is quite interesting.I like the melding of cyberpunk, virtual reality and Japanese philosophy.It blends well and offers a good backdrop for that rare commodity, the science-fiction mystery.I picked up the book to look at it and found myself hooked right away.A very entertaining read if you don't mind having your mind bent and limbered up a bit.Check it out.

Utter Tripe
Cyberspace is addictive, expensive and ultimately boring.Thanks for the newsflash.

With numerous typographical errors, undifferentiated cardboard characters, a murderously tedious whodunit and the most uninteresting rendition of cyberpunk in a decade, Cadigan has achieved a new low in modern science fiction.

Would have been more appropriately titled, Words from an Empty Book (and even that sounds more interesting than this book ends up being).

Good fun book for cyberpunk fans
This the first book of Pat Cadigan's I've read.I can't remember who or where I heard about it, but a good book.

The novel is set in a near future cyberpunk world where artifcial reality (AR) is commonplace and people regularly fall into lives in AR that are more compelling that lives in the real world.The technology is believeable with enough details to satisfy hard sci-fi readers without delving into textbookese.

Having enjoyed the proto-ARs that are online games, I was interested in seeing what Ms. Cadigan had to say about the future.

Similiar to Gibson's Pattern Recognition, all the characters in the book are looking for something.The focus is on the role of artifical reality in these hunts.The vision is interesting, but in the end it is difficult to relate to reality.

The book is fun and enjoyable as a quick read, but for more heady cyberpunk, turn to Bruce Sterling. ... Read more

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20 outstanding sf stories by women writers. ... Read more

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Chapters: Neal Stephenson, William Gibson, Bruce Sterling, Pat Cadigan, Cory Doctorow, John Shirley, Rudy Rucker, Charles Stross, Lewis Shiner, Fran Ilich, Richard Kadrey, Earl S. Wynn, Bruce Bethke, Tom Maddox, Lisa Mason. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 99. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: William Ford Gibson (born March 17, 1948) is an American-Canadian writer who has been called the "noir prophet" of the cyberpunk subgenre of science fiction. Gibson coined the term "cyberspace" in his short story "Burning Chrome" and later popularized the concept in his debut novel, Neuromancer (1984). In envisaging cyberspace, Gibson created an iconography for the information age before the ubiquity of the Internet in the 1990s. He is also credited with predicting the rise of reality television and with establishing the conceptual foundations for the rapid growth of virtual environments such as video games and the Web. Having changed residence frequently with his family as a child, Gibson became a shy, ungainly teenager who often read science fiction. After spending his adolescence at a private boarding school in Arizona, Gibson dodged the draft during the Vietnam War by emigrating to Canada in 1968, where he became immersed in the counterculture and after settling in Vancouver eventually became a full-time writer. He retains dual citizenship. Gibson's early works are bleak, noir near-future stories about the effect of cybernetics and computer networks on humans a "combination of lowlife and high tech". The short stories were published in popular science fiction magazines. The themes, settings and characters developed in these stories culminated in his first novel, Neuromancer, which garnered critical and commercial success, virtually initiating the cyberpunk literary genre. Although much of G...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=33119 ... Read more

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Chapters: George Westinghouse, Irving Langmuir, Charles Proteus Steinmetz, John Sayles, Ron Rivest, Pat Cadigan, Mickey Rourke, Pat Riley, Charles Mackerras, Mary Daly, Vincent Schaefer, Ralph Asher Alpher, Dave Garroway, Jim Tedisco, Kevin Burns, Kevin Greene, Harold Gould, Brian Patneaude, Telford Taylor, Edward Sagarin, Charles R. Dana, Rich Brennan, John Owen Dominis, Kumar P. Barve, Mel Lindquist, Michael Cremo, Harry Flynn, Shirley Muldowney, Joshua Seftel, Marybeth Tinning, Mildred Grosberg Bellin, Adam Empie, John Tudor, William Appleton Potter, Ann B. Davis, Alison Des Forges, Robert Longhurst, Gerald Stano, Ernst Alexanderson, Henry Codman Potter, John S. Apperson, William James Stillman, Frederick Freeman Proctor, John Ball, Rodger Doxsey, Joe Tessitore, André Davis, John F. Schermerhorn, Bernard Vonnegut, Jeff Blatnick, Eliphalet Nott, Joseph C. Yates, Nick Petrecki, Kenneth Schermerhorn, Orestes Cleveland, Jonathan Edwards, Philip Amelio, James Chatham Duane, Charles Concordia, Jonathan Thorn, Lewis Boss, Abraham M. Schermerhorn, Jamie Dukes, Deborah Van Valkenburgh, Thomas W. Wallace, Charles Cooper Nott, Bob Duval, George H. Wells, George R. Lunn, Ray Nelson, Horatio Allen, Mary Anne Krupsak, Lee Wallard, Patricia Kalember, Ralfe Clench, Richard Franchot, Robert C. Dorn, James Thomas, Barry Kramer, Charles H. Veeder, Harold Lohner, Jeanne Robert Foster, Charlie Guy, Henry Ramsay, Lewis K. Rockefeller, Marty Servo, Stephen Alexander, Vince Martino, Oswald D. Heck, David P. Forrest, Jessica Collins, James Gordon, Archibald L. Linn, Lynne Talley, Ralph Ruthstrom, Lawrence Delos Miles, Anne Mazer, John Morales, Ranald Macdougall, Denise Sheehan, Arent Van Curler, Dave Gillanders, Edith Vonnegut, Henry Glen. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 403. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Ex...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=530936 ... Read more

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1988 Locus Poll Award, Best Anthology (Place: 7). Contains: "Permafrost," by Roger Zelazny, (winner, 1987 Hugo Award; nominee, 1986 Nebula Award); "Pretty Boy Crossover," by Pat Cadigan (Winner, 1987 SF Chronicle Award. Nominated, 1986 Nebula Award); "R & R" by Lucius Shepard (Winner 1986 Nebula Award, 1987 SF Chronicle Award, 1987 Locus Poll Award. Nominated, 1987 Hugo Award); "The Lions Are Asleep This Night," by Howard Waldrop, (nominated, 1986 Nebula Award, 1987 Theodore Sturgeon Award); and others. ... Read more

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Not Free SF Reader
The introduction is short, talking mostly about the world situation, as opposed to SF noting sales were decent, that is about it.

Another Wollheim Year's Best that isn't so great, only 3.50 for this one, with Lucius Shepard the obvious standout. A decent book though, heading to 3.75 territory.

Donald Wollheim 16 : Permafrost - Roger Zelazny
Donald Wollheim 16 : Timerider - Doris Egan
Donald Wollheim 16 : Pretty Boy Crossover - Pat Cadigan
Donald Wollheim 16 : R&R - Lucius Shepard
Donald Wollheim 16 : Lo How an Oak E'er Blooming - Suzette Haden Elgin
Donald Wollheim 16 : Dream in a Bottle - Jerry Meredith and D. E. Smirl
Donald Wollheim 16 : Into Gold - Tanith Lee
Donald Wollheim 16 : The Lions Are Asleep This Night - Howard Waldrop
Donald Wollheim 16 : Against Babylon - Robert Silverberg
Donald Wollheim 16 : Strangers on Paradise - Damon Knight

Leopard stiff story.

3 out of 5


Darkwings recruit.

3.5 out of 5


Nancy dancers a dime a dozen. Data dude? Now, that's new.

4 out of 5


Soldier trio separation shock.

4.5 out of 5


Indestructible, with acorns.

3 out of 5


Starship brain jar jinn Ancient Mariner breakout coaxing reality worries.

4 out of 5


Fire woman not to blame.

3 out of 5


Play kid.

3 out of 5


Flaming alien wifenappers.

3.5 out of 5


Immortal rabbit madness.

3.5 out of 5




3.5 out of 5 ... Read more

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With their hard-edged, street-wise prose, they created frighteningly probable futures of high-tech societies and low-life hustlers. Fans and critics call their world cyberpunk. Here is the definitive "cyberpunk" short fiction collection. HC: Arbor House. ... Read more

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Could be better??
Either I do not believe the book has a good selection of Cyberpunk stories collection, or there are not that many good Cyberpunk stories??Being a classical Sci-fi fan reading all those Asimov and classical stuff, this sort of new blood stories doesn't live up to it.May be I haven't seen the real good Cyberpunk story yet.But certainly not this collection.

for cyberpunk n00bs and other scifi lovers
A battered copy lives in my nightstand at all times.Between novels, I always come back to this, flipping through the pages until a word catches my eye.Such a diversity of talent, mixed together quite well here.

Not Free SF Reader
Bruce Sterling's anthology Mirrorshades announced the existence of cyberpunk. A more modern type of street level, urban science fiction in a lot of cases. While the authors here have done better work elsewhere this is still a very interesting and influential collection, and certainly of use to people with an interest in that sort of science fiction.

Cadigan, Gibson and Shirley are all here, for example.

Mirrorshades : The Gernsback Continuum - William Gibson
Mirrorshades : Snake-Eyes - Tom Maddox
Mirrorshades : Rock On - Pat Cadigan
Mirrorshades : Tales of Houdini - Rudy Rucker
Mirrorshades : 400 Boys - Marc Laidlaw
Mirrorshades : Solstice - James Patrick Kelly
Mirrorshades : Petra - Greg Bear
Mirrorshades : Till Human Voices Wake Us - Lewis Shiner
Mirrorshades : Freezone - John Shirley
Mirrorshades : Stone Lives - Paul Di Filippo
Mirrorshades : Red Star Winter Orbits - William Gibson and Bruce Sterling
Mirrorshades : Mozart in Mirrorshades - Bruce Sterling and Lewis Shiner



Not a fan of retro sf design.

4 out of 5


Serpent brain wartech is problematic.

4 out of 5


Direct mental music.

3.5 out of 5


Escape master movie.

2 out of 5


Team survival is tricky.

4 out of 5


Bioguru woman's Stonehenge drug binge unhinges into cryogenic desperation.

4.5 out of 5


Gargoyle boys and girls.

3.5 out of 5


Mermaid clone affair ends quite fishily.

4 out of 5


America losing, rock is dead, gay bar's an escape.

3.5 out of 5


Corporate anarchy watching brief blackout provides relative promotion.

4.5 out of 5


Cosmonaut crapout space station hitchhikers.

4 out of 5


Let them wear leather bikinis and crave recording deals.

4 out of 5

Best Collection For the Genre
This is simply a fantastic collection of the best stories of my favorite literary subgenre, the Cyberpunk Movement in the 1980s and early 1990s. While I may not like William Gibson and Bruce Sterling, I am not ignorant when it comes to their importance in popularizing and shaping the genre. Also here are Rudy Rucker, the acting grandfather of the genre; and Pat Cadigan, the Queen of Cyberpunk (even though she had very little, if any, real competition).

While there are a couple newer Cyberpunk collections, The Ultimate Cyberpunk coming to mind, the first is still the best. Not only are the stories fantastic, but the anthology didn't have to rely on a nostalgia effect, like those that are being published now.

A good introduction to the genre, as well as an essential item for one's collection.

A mixed bag, but still pretty good
This book is a collection of cyberpunk stories assembled by Bruce Sterling. It is supposedly the definitive cyberpunk fiction collection. There are some really good stories in the book such as the Gernsback Continuum, Solstice, Freezone, Till Human Voices Wake Us, Stone Lives, and Mozart with Mirrorshades. These tales had advanced technological concepts and more importantly, good stories. The stories touched on gene engineering, time travel, cybernetics, and other popular cyberpunk themes. Some of the other stories were pretty interesting, but some just didn't seem to fit. For example, Tales of Houdini and Petra seemed out of place in this collection. Though they were both sci-fi tales, they didn't seem to be cyberpunk. ... Read more

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From its beginnings as a fanzine before World War II, New Worlds struck out on a different path. In the postwar years, under the editorial direction of Michael Moorcock, the magazine published more award-winning stories than any other science fiction publication; it achieved a unique cross-fertilization between sci-fi and mainstream literature and became the vanguard of the "New Wave" writing that stood sci-fi on its head in the 1960s. It was banned, it received grants, and it became the subject of debate in the Houses of Parliament. Moorcock introduced a broad readership to writers whose names would endure, such as Samuel Delany, M. John Harrison, J. G. Ballard, D. M. Thomas, Harlan Ellison, Brian Aldiss, Fritz Leiber, John Brunner, Norman Spinrad and many others. ... Read more

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Confusion!
Colvin is now referring to the review 'above' when in fact he's actually referring to the review 'below'.Just to reiterate that the review 'above' is about the actual book advertised and the review 'below' is about an issue of New Worlds edited by David Garnett (good, but not the same NW)!

Three Cheers for the Literaure of the Fantastic
This book contains science fiction short stories, and a lesser amount of essays and reviews, from a remarkable British science fiction publication called New Worlds.It also has an interesting introduction by the former editor of New Worlds, Michael Moorcock.
New Worlds is in a sense 'before my time' for it ceased publication as a magazine when I was a child.It must have been wonderful to be part of a avante garde literary movement!You will not find the sort of "alien fires ray gun at human--human fires ray gun back at alien" stories here.New Worlds aspired to intelligent and literary science fiction.It brought opposition from some quarters, which Moorcock writes about in his introduction. It wrote about sex and drugs.It engaged in literary experimentation; for example, the story The Tank Trapeze by Michael Moorcock uses quotes from a newspaper.The story The Four-Color Problem by Barrington Bayley has a technical mathematical section.The anthology also includes stories from other masters of the genre such as Brian Aldiss and J.G. Ballard.The science fiction genre was indeed reshaped by these coterie of authors which have been called "the new wave."I am not aprori opposed to it experimentation.Sometimes it doesn't not work.But sometimes it can serve the author's purposes.And the literature of the fantastic has not always had "typical" narrative anyway.Take, for example, two novels, Journal of the Plague Year by Daniel Defoe, and Dracula by Bam Stroker.The Journal of the Plague Year, written before the 20th Century--I forget which century, sorry--is a fiction story based on a real plague which killed around 100,000 people in London.That story is written in the form of a journal which includes facts.Dracula is told in the form of more than one journal.
The idea behind the story should be interesting, and the form and content of the story is to be of service to the idea; this was achieved in the pages of New Worlds.

Not the right review!
The above review isn't for this recently published anthology, but for one of the David Garnett edited New Worlds anthologies done through the 1990s.
This new US anthology is a representational collection of stories and features drawn from the magazine New Worlds which flourished from 1965 and saw its last issue in 1995. It was closely associated with a development of sf which became known as the UK 'New Wave' movement and nowadays is probably best known as 'slipstream'.The British movement was a conscious break with modernism and attempted to find a literary form which reconnected with the general reading public as well as to develop new conventions which, as far as the writers were concerned, better described their contemporary experience.

You Cannot Go Wrong With This Anthology!!!
With stories like "Ferryman" (Eric Brown), "The White Stuff" (Peter F. Hamilton & Graham Joyce), and "A Night on Bare Mountain" (Graham Charnock), anthologies don't get any better than this. My only quibble is with the experimental narrative "Thirteen Views of a Cardboard City"(William Gibson) which rounds out the volume with a whimper, not a bang. Otherwise, this is Hugo & Nebula territory. ... Read more

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Great Series
This book is another great addition the "The Web" series. If you like it and want to read more stories based in this world, try "The Web 2027" and "The Web 2028". Both are great. It's great if you like books about how cool the near future may be. I'll tell you after reading this (and other books from the series) I can't wait until 2027!

Cadigan Lite?
OK, you just finished reading 'The Power and the Passion' and said to yourself; "Holy Cow! I have to read EVERYTHING I can find from Pat Cadigan!"

Hold on a minute; this may not be the book you are looking for. This is part of a series of cyberpunk stories for kids. It is fun and fast paced: I finished it in one 40 minute sitting. The heroes are pre-teens. It is light and entertaining. Not quite how you would describe most of Cadigan's stories, huh?

I don't want to scare you off here. I am glad I bought it, and I will definitely read it again, but I am a big fan of young adult fiction: Heinlein, C.S. Lewis, Madeline L'Engle, and even J.K. Rowling.

Reading Cadigan's novels normally involves a fair amount of thought and introspection. Her stories force you perceive things in new ways. This book has been toned down to a level that young readers will be able to understand. ... Read more