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Book 102: "Everyone in Silico" by Jim Munroe
Wednesday, November 8th, 2006 20:18"I'll have a tequila sunrise," declared a fresh-faced cartoon kid, looking around at the people in the bar with bright-eyed pride. He hopped up on a bar stool beside Paul.
The kid was your classic Fresh Off The Boat - the cartoon body favored by people getting to choose a body other than their own for the first time, corn-colored tufts of hair above freckles and a gargantuan grin. "Can't believe it! All looks so real," the kid said, sliding his hands over the bar.
It's the middle of the 21st century and the streets of Vancouver are emptying as more and more people decide to take up residence in Frisco, a virtual reality world based on San Francisco, run by a company called Self. But what happens to the bodies of those who have moved there. They are supposed to be stored in a secret location in case anybody decides to leave Frisco and return to the real world, but nobody really knows if they are.
The trickle of people signing up for Self's bronze, silver, gold and platinum packages has become a flood, schools and workplaces are moving into Frisco and closing down in the real world, and soon only the poor and disenfranchised will be left. But the resistance movement known as the Infiltrators is growing in both worlds, and the main characters in the book are drawn into it by the mysterious Paul.
What is it with cyberpunk novels and weak endings? The story fizzled to a halt as if the author was bored with it, leaving me with a vague idea of Paul's plans, but no closure.
The kid was your classic Fresh Off The Boat - the cartoon body favored by people getting to choose a body other than their own for the first time, corn-colored tufts of hair above freckles and a gargantuan grin. "Can't believe it! All looks so real," the kid said, sliding his hands over the bar.
It's the middle of the 21st century and the streets of Vancouver are emptying as more and more people decide to take up residence in Frisco, a virtual reality world based on San Francisco, run by a company called Self. But what happens to the bodies of those who have moved there. They are supposed to be stored in a secret location in case anybody decides to leave Frisco and return to the real world, but nobody really knows if they are.
The trickle of people signing up for Self's bronze, silver, gold and platinum packages has become a flood, schools and workplaces are moving into Frisco and closing down in the real world, and soon only the poor and disenfranchised will be left. But the resistance movement known as the Infiltrators is growing in both worlds, and the main characters in the book are drawn into it by the mysterious Paul.
What is it with cyberpunk novels and weak endings? The story fizzled to a halt as if the author was bored with it, leaving me with a vague idea of Paul's plans, but no closure.
