In Pearlman's novel of Swiftian bite and humor, the world is run by global amnesiacs, the brain-damaged lording it over the mentally sound.? The president of Memini, the greatest of the all-powerful megacorporations ("conglobulates") believes that he is still only a high-school senior--and that he is living inside a videogame that he must outwit in order to graduate.? Meminet, the venerable computer personality that manages the managers of Memini, must race to keep its unhinged president from triggering the meltdown of Antarctica and thus destroying civilization.
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Pearlman (The Final Dream & Other Fictions) goes for the satirical jugular in this often hilarious if ultimately wearying Swiftian exercise, full of Joycean wordplay. In the author’s unrelenting cyberpunk dystopia, Memini and two other large corporations or "conglobulates," Mishugi and Occipet, control a world divided into two groups: brain-damaged "tekkies" and grumbling but mentally sound "oldfolks." Memini’s in trouble because its president is convinced that he’s a high school student confounded by a hostile board of education. Readers should be prepared for a whirlwind ride with no pause for breathe. Fans of more conventional SF may be put off by the explicit sex and the absence of sympathetic characters.
Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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A memorable effort,
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Memini Vonnegutsily Burroughs into an Orwellian distopia. I suspect that this book is literature masquerading as science-fiction. Pearlman displays a remarkable sense of language.
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