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Metrophage (Ace Science Fiction Special) [Paperback]

Richard Kadrey (Author)
2.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)


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Ace Science Fiction Special February 1, 1988
Set in Los Angeles a century from now, this science fiction thriller is the author's first novel. He has published fiction and collages in magazines including "Omni", "Interzone", "Whole Earth Review" and "Semiotext".
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Product Details

  • Paperback
  • Publisher: Ace (February 1, 1988)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0441528139
  • ISBN-13: 978-0441528134
  • Product Dimensions: 7 x 4.2 x 0.5 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 4.8 ounces
  • Average Customer Review: 2.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,044,645 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Richard Kadrey is a writer living in San Francisco. He is the author of dozens of stories, plus five novels, including Metrophage and Butcher Bird. His Wired magazine cover story, "Carbon Copy," was made into one of the worst movies of 2001. It starred Bridget Fonda. Sorry, Bridget.

Kadrey created and wrote the Vertigo comics miniseries Accelerate, which was illustrated by the Pander Brothers. He plans to do more comic work in the near future.

He is written and spoken about art, culture, and technology for Wired, The San Francisco Chronicle, Discovery Online, The Site, SXSW, and Wired for Sex on the G4 cable network.

He is also a fetish photographer.

He has no qualifications for anything he does.

 

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars classic cyberpunk, January 30, 2007
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M. P. Hills "m1k3y" (Melbourne, Australia) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Metrophage (Paperback)
Reading Metrophage was like re-discovering cyberpunk fiction all over again. He channels noir writers just like Gibson does in Neuromancer, but also drops in some sweet art history and quite respectable tech-extrapolations just like Sterling circa Holy Fire and street pomo theory, a la Zeitgeist.
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1.0 out of 5 stars Don't Bother, July 25, 2011
This review is from: Metrophage (Ace Science Fiction Special) (Paperback)
I found the whole book disjointed and difficult to follow. There was no real development of an characters just lurching from one disaster to another. Tne story seems to be unstructured and the ending is very disappointing.
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7 of 13 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars Good, but Neuromancer is far better, April 18, 2002
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Anthony J Ceci II (gaithersburg, MD United States) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Metrophage (Ace Science Fiction Special) (Paperback)
once again, a dystopic future where technology replaces morality, etc. etc. etc. It's a fun romp, a good read, but the Zen buddhist ending is VERY heavy handed, whereas Neuromancer's Zen buddhist ending is rather enlightening (just like a Zen buddhist ending should be!;)

So should you rush out and overpay for a copy? Only if you like collecting books and/or are a cyberpunk completist.

Should you read it? yeah, its pretty good.

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