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Exit Strategy Paperback – June 10, 2002

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Set in the near-future (2008), Exit Strategy is a darkly comic send-up of the dot.com mania of the late 1990s and a modern-day retelling of the story of Joseph. Like Joseph, Jamie Cohen is betrayed by his compadres but unexpectedly finds himself at the right hand of power. He helps a huge venture capitalist build pyramids - except these are investment pyramids based on technology idols. An additional narrative conceit is this: 200 years later, anthropologists find the virtual manuscript of Exit Strategy and begin annotating the text. Hundreds of readers have already contributed footnotes for the book – they are charming, wacky, compelling and Rushkoff has selected one hundred of his favorites for inclusion.

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Exit Strategy, the much-hyped open source novel by columnist and commentator Douglas Rushkoff (Coercion, Ecstasy Club), is both a moral allegory and a "hypertext labyrinth of references and cross-references" creating a "community riff on our bizarre age." It can be as daunting as it sounds: the tale of a modern Joseph who's caught between the opposite worlds of hackers and venture capitalists sometimes nearly gets buried beneath the footnotes added by readers of the novel's online version, who were told to imagine that the novel had been discovered in the 23rd century ("wedgie: an attack meant to cause pain and embarrassment simultaneously," writes a helpful contemporary reader to future humans).
Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information, Inc.

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Douglas Rushkoff is a professor of virtual culture at New York University's Interactive Telecommunications Program.

Paperback: 375 pages
Publisher: Soft Skull Press; Annotated edition edition (June 10, 2002)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1887128905
ISBN-13: 978-1887128902
Product Dimensions: 7.9 x 0.8 x 8 inches
Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
Average Customer Review: 7 customer reviews
Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,424,768 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #8384 in Hard Science Fiction (Books)
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- #631 in Talmud (Books)

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Alan Hogan

A possible future that never will be (yet almost is).

October 18, 2012

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An engaging fiction with insightful criticism of the manipulations of modern web services, written during the 2000-era bubble, positing a future that didn't happen, yet towards which we edge ever nearer.

And the margins contain "historians' notes" written by various contributors, as if this novel (which is written in the first person) were a diary found by far-future archaeologists. These notes are highly entertaining and still manage to convey interesting perspectives and insights (such as one historian's guess as to which "coke" Jaimie was referring to: The soft drink or cocaine, as both had supposedly similar effects and were both effective, with negative health effects. Funny because it's true.)

FYI: If you see Bull, it's my understanding that that book eventually became this one.

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William Burroughs

fantastic book ..

September 25, 2002

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This is truly a must own book. If you are not familiar with this book, enjoy it, even savior it while you're reading it. This is the type of book that you never want to finish and when you do, you're practically bummed. The storyline is very innovative, the humor sharp and the pacings quick. The bottomline is this book is an excellent read.
I would love to go into particulars about the book but it's kind of a hard one to summarize. I would say that it's almost a cross of The Illuminatus Trilogy and SNOWCRASH. This next comment sounds like a lofty claim, but to me, this book was much better then stephenson's SNOW CRASH.
If you enjoy groundbreaking SCI-FI, I would highly recommend you looking further into this book. I can honestly say that it amazes me that this book never got more fanfare. Critics miss the boat all the time but this book is so good that it should have a grass roots or cult movement that keeps it selling.
Buy a copy, maybe that'll be the start, maybe not but I promise that after you finish reading the book you'll agree.

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Jacob R. Stichler

Great book by a great author

February 15, 2009

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I first learned about this book through Yahoo! Internet Life, when they still published the darn thing, and they printed a chapter in the magazine from the book along with information on how to contribute. Never got around to creating any footnotes, but I did buy a copy as soon as I remembered it's existence.

Unfortunately, the copy I got at the bookstore was missing some pages. I emailed the author and he responded that it was a known problem, and offered to email me PDFs of the pages I was missing. Preferring a full book, I went back to the bookstore, had them order 5 more copies, and traded when the new ones came.

Enough of that, though. This is a fantastic book that, in the words of another reviewer, may blow your mind. I pick it up and read it again probably once a year or so, and will be searching for it shortly to do so. The manuscript format was genius and perfect for this story.

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R. Friesel Jr.

for business-starter-uppers trapped in their own IPO

February 1, 2008

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A clever presentation (the novel as a found document from the distant future) sets an interesting tone for this bit of near-future speculative fiction. Overall, a pretty decent read with an excellent cautionary tale at its heart. Worth the read, especially if you're an aspiring author looking for an example of some "different" way of presenting your text.

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Laura J. Dixon

Pleasant Surprise

December 11, 2003

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You can tell Rushkoff is a greenhorn novelist, as the plot falters at points. You often get the feeling that he's trying a bit too hard, but the care that he put into the novel just seeps through to cover up in technical failings. I love the human face Rushkoff puts on the dot.com mentalities of the late 90's. I was just waiting to piss on this book (it was given to me by a friend that usally has taste of that sort), but it was at least moderately enjoyable all the way through and absolutely outstanding a great deal of the time as well. PLUS, Dzama's illustrations are just great. Only thing I wish it that there were more of them.

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W. Yuan

new way to live the modern life

February 10, 2005

Format: Paperback

So everything is a game? If we don't think it is, if we take it too seriously we are going to end up being bulls or Jamie. But if we play it as a game, we will have fun? Then if we play the game, we have to understand the rules of the game. If we don't know that it is a game, we live in it, do we become "bad" charactors--bulls, or do we become "Jamie"--the painfully concious person? I think Rushkoff is telling the reader to play, engage, and get out. Engage, play, win or lose, get out.

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Kenji Siratori

plug-in

February 10, 2006

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"EXIT STRATEGY, the body encoder that the technojunkie was debugged to the human body pill paradise apparatus of this abolition world plug-in, to send back out cruel emulator of hyperreal HIV=scanner form era respiration-byte." - Kenji Siratori, author of Blood Electric

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