"A sixteen-car pile-up of a novel in which cyberpunk science fiction, hard-boiled detective stories, American popular culture and everything you've forgotten from your biology lessons are melted down into a fiction analogue of the best drug you ever took. Meet Big Squirrel, the TV kiddie-show host and kung fu mercenary; Bev the speech pathologist and her pet waterbug; Ivan the Realtor; Arleen Portada, lead singer of Brazil's most notoriously nihilistic samba band; and, of course, the narrator's cousin, the gastroenterologist." [jacket blurb, UK pbk, 1991]
"Here's one that should have been in John Shirley's 'Beyond Cyberpunk' article even though the book is listed as cyberpunk. I call it Cybernoir. It has those Beyond C-word elements such as black humor, dense prose and a healthy disregard for convention.
"...It's an excellent brain tease and full of one line strings that cause a combination laugh/groan. Just the sort of thing the Postmodernists cut their teeth on". --Misha (in Science Fiction Eye , Issue 8, Winter 1991).
Recommended.
