INTERFACE MASQUE [Paperback]

Shariann Lewitt (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback
• Publisher: Tor / Tom Doherty Associates [1997], New York (1997)
• ASIN: B002275KAE
• Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)

More About the Author

Discover books, learn about writers, read author blogs, and more.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Future of the Internet?, August 23, 2006

By 

themarsman (Georgetown, TX) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Interface Masque (Hardcover)

Interface Masque details the adventures of Cecelie of Sept-Fortune; a computer security firm located in a future Venice. As an apprentice of Sept-Fortune, she must undergo a final test to become a full member of the firm. After the test, Cecelie's world is turned upside down. While the Septs are the de facto management of the Net, Cecelie soon discovers that the certain factions within the Sept structure are attempting to consolidate their power and not only control the Net in the de facto sense, but in the very real life sense as well.

Interface Masque presents an interest look at the possible future the modern-day Internet may take...but Ms. Lewitt attempts at composing three-dimensional characters, on the whole, was not a success. There is too much we did not know about the characters and their pasts, and Ms. Lewitt would introduce a character and then not explore that character further until too far down the line. But where Ms. Lewitt did compensate some was by building a reasonably believable world where those in charge use music to control the masses and information is controlled by an elite few (i.e. the Septs).

Interface Masque was an okay book. Would I recommend this book to a friend? Probably not. But if the mood were to strike me, I would probably give Ms. Lewitt's works another chance.

3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A haunting evocation of a very possible future, October 16, 1997

By 

[e-mail] (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Interface Masque (Hardcover)

Very briefly, INTERFACE MASQUE is one of those novels whose underlying assumptions are so well constructed that it draws you into its world completely. Read it. I assure you that you will never again hear cyberspace described as "the Information Superhighway" without thinking that Lewin's "Infosea" is a much, much better metaphor.

3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars one of the most thought-invoking novels i've read, May 11, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Interface Masque (Hardcover)

talk about imagination! lewitt's metaphors and intriguing ideas of a futuristic world come together in a fantastic knot of science fiction and fantasy. be drawn in to a world of masked faces and surprising revelations.