Crystal Phoenix [Paperback]

Michael Berlyn (Author)

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• Paperback
• Publisher: Bantam Books; First Edition edition (June 1, 1980)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 055313468X
• ISBN-13: 978-0553134681
• Product Dimensions: 6.9 x 4.1 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 5.6 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 2.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,845,837 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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2.0 out of 5 stars Seventies Sci-Fi, March 8, 2004

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James K. Hoffman "Book Addict" (Jersey Village, TX USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Crystal Phoenix (Paperback)

The future we were presented back in the late Seventies and early Eighties looked like, well, rather like a decadent version of the suburbs. Lots of money, lots of technology to make us lazy and lots of overly relaxed morality. _Crystal Phoenix_ is the perfect example of that "future". In a world where anyone can clone themselves and have their memories stransfered to the new body, for a price, drug addiction and prostitution runs rampant. It's a violent vision of the future, to be sure, and almost a kind of morality play slightly disguised as a murder and revenge story. It's clever for what it was, but it's not the best example of science-fiction from that era.
I picked it up as a kid from the paperback rack of a drugstore. At the time, I was quite titilated by all the sex and violence, but in retrospect, that was just a cover for a weak plot and a tired idea.