Review: Tea from an Empty Cup
Avis de journaliste - Kirkus ReviewsNear/medium-future cyberpunk yam from the author of the paperback Fools (1992), etc., and numerous well-known stories. Artificial Reality is indistinguishable from external reality; all enthusiasts and addicts need to enter it is a ""hotsuit"" and a helmet. Police Lieutenant Dore Konstantin investigates a DOA found in an AR parlor; the victim is a 17-year-old Caucasian with a messily cut throat. In AR he called himself Shantih Love, or perhaps Tom Iguchi, though he wasn't Japanese; his favored scenario was post-Apocalyptic Noo Yawk Sitty--wherein, Konstantin discovers, eight deaths have occurred in as many months. There were no witnesses, and nobody was seen to enter or leave the booth where the boy died. Meanwhile, Yuki, a full-blooded Japanese (Japan itself has been destroyed), attempts to locate her mysteriously vanished boyfriend, Tom Iguchi. She meets Tom in Noo Yawk Sitty, but he's trapped somehow in AR; worse, someone else is experiencing everything she experiences, wearing her just as she wears the hotsuit supplied by shady AR facilitator Joy Flower. Konstantin, though a novice and completely out of her depth, is also forced to enter AR in order to develop new information. She borrows the Shantih Love ID, complete with cut throat, and eventually learns that the enigmatic Body Sativa knows everything that's going on in AR. A parlor employee, it emerges, was supplying drugs to clients, enabling them to ""speed"" up to the higher levels of AR enjoyed by clubbers, manipulators, and various wannabes. Poor Yuki, meanwhile, finds she has become Joy Flower's slave. Konstantin will find it perplexing to sort out the swirl of motives and multiple identities, or even distinguish AR from reality. The murder mystery's well constructed and often absorbing--but AR is no different from VR, and the intractable problem remains: when anything can happen, how is it possible to care when something does?
Review: Tea From An Empty Cup (Artificial Reality Division #1)
Avis d'utilisateur - Smcleish - GoodreadsOriginally published on my blog here in March 2003. Tea From an Empty Cup takes advantage of the establishment of the cyberpunk subgenre to concentrate on one aspect found in many of its stories ... Consulter l'avis complet
Review: Tea from an Empty Cup (Artificial Reality Division #1)
Avis d'utilisateur - Kevin - GoodreadsWith her new novel, Tea from an Empty Cup, Pat Cadigan reaffirms her position as the "Queen of Cyberpunk." Combining computers, artificial reality, and a post-Apocalyptic dystopia, Cadigan weaves a ... Consulter l'avis complet
Review: Tea From An Empty Cup (Artificial Reality Division #1)
Avis d'utilisateur - Kelly Spoer - GoodreadsI didn't like it at first. Hated it really. The only thing that kept me going was that Warren Ellis said it was good. I trust his judgement. I'm glad I stuck with it. I enjoyed it at the end, but I think it's a book that can fully be enjoyed only after multiple readings. Consulter l'avis complet
Review: Tea from an Empty Cup (Artificial Reality Division #1)
Avis d'utilisateur - Ian Mathers - GoodreadsThis one probably desrves three-and-a-half stars too. It's good, and I like the ending and the way the narratives dovetail, but it never quite lives up to the almost confusing first chapter. I like ... Consulter l'avis complet
Review: Tea From An Empty Cup (Artificial Reality Division #1)
Avis d'utilisateur - GoodreadsWhat a waste of time. Back on page (view spoiler)[71 (hide spoiler)], she told us where this story was going. But when we got there... Nothing happened. There's no conclusion to this book, and I feel ...
Review: Tea from an Empty Cup (Artificial Reality Division #1)
Avis d'utilisateur - RB Harkess - GoodreadsThis was my first Pat Cadigan book, and although I know its a teeneager now (first published 1998) I enjoyed it so much I felt I had to say something. It felt 'old school', and in the best way ... Consulter l'avis complet
Review: Tea from an Empty Cup (Artificial Reality Division #1)
Avis d'utilisateur - Alexandra - GoodreadsWhen I read Trouble and Her Friends, I was forcibly reminded of what Helen Merrick says about it in The Secret Feminist Cabal (while thinking for a moment that it was my own brilliant insight ... Consulter l'avis complet
Review: Tea from an Empty Cup (Artificial Reality Division #1)
Avis d'utilisateur - Jim - GoodreadsPat Cadigan is one of the top cyberpunk writers in the genre. In "Tea from and Empty Cup" she creates a multi-layered artificial reality full of metaphore and symbolism. Consulter l'avis complet
Review: Tea from an Empty Cup (Artificial Reality Division #1)
Avis d'utilisateur - Ketan Shah - GoodreadsCOnfusing at times,and the end seems rushed ,buit there's some great ideas about VR.Especially for something written in 1999. Consulter l'avis complet
