- Gebundene Ausgabe: 348 Seiten
- Verlag: Arbor House Pub Co; Auflage: First Edition (Juni 1988)
- Sprache: Englisch
- ISBN-10: 0877959528
- ISBN-13: 978-0877959526
- Durchschnittliche Kundenbewertung: 2.2 von 5 Sternen Alle Rezensionen anzeigen (4 Kundenrezensionen)
- Amazon Bestseller-Rang: Nr. 1.191.590 in Englische Bücher (Siehe Top 100 in Englische Bücher)
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Slightly dated science fiction about the near future can be fun, especially when it evokes a strange, chaotic, and dangerous world that's uncomfortably close to our present one. Bruce Sterling's 1988 book, Islands in the Net, is a thrilling blend of high tech and low humanity. The glue that binds together this world of data pirates, mercenaries, nanotechnology, weaponry, and post-millennial voodoo is the global electronic net. You'll find jarring references to pre-Microsoft Windows computer technology, the Soviet Union, and that fancy new wonder machine--the fax. But this book has enough cool stuff to keep even a jaded cyberpunk interested. The characters are far more than mere constructs used to show off the technology, and the plot is fast, complicated, and mysterious. Veteran Sterling fans will enjoy this taste of his pre-fame style.
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A war between data pirates involves a young woman and her husband in a desperate search for a new kind of international terrorist. The author of Schismatrix ( LJ 6/15/85) explores the gulf between the high-tech haves and have-nots in this fast-paced novel of 21st-century techno-intrigue. Recommended for all collections.JC
Copyright 1988 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 1988 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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Now that cyberpunk seems to mean simply 'fiction with virtual reality', it is worth looking back to when it had more depth. Sterling's best novel to date (I haven't read 'Distraction' yet), is fundamentally a serious novel of global politics disguised as a sci-fi adventure story. It has its faults, notably lack of editing and occasional lapses in characterisation, which is why I only give it 4 rather than 5 stars, but it is still refreshing to read an intelligent novel with anarcho-socialist leanings in a sub-genre which has become increasingly apolitical and irrelevant.
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About 100 pages into "Islands in the Net", I was extremely interested in what was happening. By the time I got to the end of the book (around page 400), I was reading only because I had already invested so much time.
It's difficult to express exactly what went wrong with this book, but there are a few flaws that stand out in my mind :
#1) The length.
I'm not afraid of reading longer texts, but does this story really justify 400 pages? It seems like Sterling doesn't understand what is important to the progress of the story and what is simply clutter. Many scenes/locales have far too many pages and words dedicated to them. It's obvious that Sterling is good at putting a scene into words, but brevity is the soul of wit (or interesting prose. Notably, the ending was rushed and weak for a book as long as this is.
#2) The characterization is generally weak.
I found myself caring more about Sticky, the dying girl, Winston Stubbs and David (all relatively minor characters) than I did about the protaganist. Laura seemed to be more of a vehicle for the background story than the compelling character that Sterling seems to want her to be. If I'm going to be reading a person's inner dialouge for 400 pages, she better be interesting.
#3) The "resolution" of the story is not a resolution in any way.
I reached the end of the book with the feeling that I had just wasted my time reading 400 pointless pages. Nothing is really different at the end of the book than at the beginning. The same people are in control, the same stupid games are being played and none of the "action" really makes any difference.
In conclusion, I thought that this book was better than many books out there, but ultimately a failure. Sterling touches on a number of interesting ideas, locales and characters but fails to bring them together into a book that serves as anything more than entertainment. The unfortunate pacing, however, severely diminishes the entertainment value.
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I finished this book mostly out of sheer bloodymindedness... It was way too long, and it DIDN'T GO ANYWHERE. It's an ongoing sermon about how technology and nonviolence will overcome the more basic aspects of humanity that have dominated civilization since the beginning of time. But the story doesn't support this assertion, which makes me wonder what the point of writing this book in the first place was.
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