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ISBN 1-85723-533-9 (UK pbk)
novel, science fiction, cyberpunk, cyborg, nanotechnology, virtual reality, cyberspace, virus, posthuman, transhuman
21st century, Earth. 4th novel. Book 4 of sequence: Dead Girls , Dead Boys , Dead Things , Cythera.
"He has many names -- Zane Weary, Jack Pimpernel, Max Moroder, Tarquin -- and many pasts. But only one ghost. The beautiful Dahlia Chan.
"Together, they roam the icy wastes of the despoiled Antarctica and prowl the corrupt streets of Bangkok, one short step ahead of the authorities, one long, weary journey from their goal.
"For only on the island of Cythera can the love of a man for a downloaded computer image be real. Only there can she be safe from the brutal forces of repression. But Cythera is a myth, the figment of a diseased imagination...
"Bizarre, perverse and brilliant, Richard Calder's Cythera is science fiction with a razor-sharp edge." [jacket blurb, UK pbk, 1998]
"Explodes in your face like a fistful of fireworks." --Paul J.McAuley.
"Calder fuses virtual reality with nanotechnology and comes up with something strange and incomprehensible... parallel Earths and a parallel psychology... a very weird and different mind-set. 'Future tense' personified. Serious word dreams...and nightmares." --Henry W.Targowski.
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