Contraband [Paperback]

George Foy (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback
• Publisher: Bantam Books (1999)
• ISBN-10: 0553575481
• ISBN-13: 978-0553575484
• ASIN: B002QAW3BQ
• Average Customer Review: 3.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars fast and dense, January 1, 1998

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Wine Guy (Texas) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Contraband (Bantam Spectra Book) (Paperback)

a quick, clever book, hewing to the best of the noirish traditions of cyberpunk. criticizing the plotting (which i really rather liked) and characterizations misses the point; the meat of the story resides in the hallucinatory feel of the pilot's life and reality, the fine attention to his consciousness and the gradations of change which it undergoes in this fine "journey" novel. the pilot functions at the edge, which, as the author reminds us, is where almost everything interesting happens . . . and where authority, in all its guises, wants to keep its subjects from venturing.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Contraband, June 10, 2002

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K. Freeman (Apple Valley, CA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Contraband (Bantam Spectra Book) (Paperback)

Intelligent, stylish and well-realized near-future SF. Foy does well at portraying popular culture and infusing humor. His writing here is often beautiful.

Contraband, the story of a pilot in a world where secret cargo cults do battle with governnment agencies, follows one of the cargo cult philosophies: the journey is the destination. The plot is circular, and not especially strong. Still, the reasonably appealing characters, the original worldbuilding, and the strength of Foy's language carry the reader along.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A superb technothriller quest!, August 13, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Contraband (Mass Market Paperback)

A wonderful novel about what technology enables the power structure--and the individual--to accomplish, told through the quest of a small band of people seeking their own freedom. Highly readable, blending a nice sense of computer-based semi-magical realism ("Any sufficiently advanced technology looks like magic", to paraphrase Arthur C. Clarke), this is a book that stays in your memory, both for its attention to detail (believability) and its themes.