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Steel-clawed catmen Hangman and Slash prowl the burned-out urban Sprawl. For the gene-modded catmen, ripping off hot cargoes from rival animen is a fine life of thief vs. thief ... cat vs. dog. Until Slash scores a take that a little too hot: the PED spy-eye, a top-secret sense-recorder implant that turns the human brain into a perfect playback machine. Any brain, living or dead...
197 pages, Paperback
First published September 1, 1990
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John Gregory Betancourt
397 books68 followersJohn Gregory Betancourt is a writer of science fiction, fantasy and mystery novels as well as short stories. He has worked as an assistant editor at Amazing Stories and editor of Horror: The Newsmagazine of the Horror Field, the revived Weird Tales magazine, the first issue of H. P. Lovecraft's Magazine of Horror (which he subsequently hired Marvin Kaye to edit), Cat Tales magazine (which he subsequently hired George H. Scithers to edit), and Adventure Tales magazine. He worked as a Senior Editor for Byron Preiss Visual Publications (1989-1996) and iBooks. He is the writer of four Star Trek novels and the new Chronicles of Amber prequel series, as well as a dozen original novels. His essays, articles, and reviews have appeared in such diverse publications as Writer's Digest and The Washington Post.
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June 19, 2019
Concept: in a dystopian future, people can choose to be anything they want. So some people choose to be anthropomorphic cats, and others dogs. They commit crimes and fight them and lobby for their rights with the rest of normal humanity, and it's pretty cool!
The problem: the character writing is so generic. :(
Your main character is a dude motivated by revenge and petty crime, he gets embroiled in something a lot bigger than him, things go boom. It's standard cyberpunk pulp.
...Except I spent half the book wondering about the cyberpunk elements, because despite the setting it seemed to be weirdly pro-authority, pro-corps, etc. The main character kept winding up on the side of the law, which was bizarre and the least cyberpunk thing you can think of.
Then the ending hit, and what the - that was an extremely dark, profoundly messed up ending. Extremely cyberpunk. And honestly it elevates the book, makes it more than a bit of action-y schlock.
I'd recommend this if you can stomach the kind of generic action on the way to the ending. There's cool world-building! You'll have a good time, then you'll be left going "what the hell was that" at the end, but in a good way.
The problem: the character writing is so generic. :(
Your main character is a dude motivated by revenge and petty crime, he gets embroiled in something a lot bigger than him, things go boom. It's standard cyberpunk pulp.
...Except I spent half the book wondering about the cyberpunk elements, because despite the setting it seemed to be weirdly pro-authority, pro-corps, etc. The main character kept winding up on the side of the law, which was bizarre and the least cyberpunk thing you can think of.
Then the ending hit, and what the - that was an extremely dark, profoundly messed up ending. Extremely cyberpunk. And honestly it elevates the book, makes it more than a bit of action-y schlock.
I'd recommend this if you can stomach the kind of generic action on the way to the ending. There's cool world-building! You'll have a good time, then you'll be left going "what the hell was that" at the end, but in a good way.
October 19, 2022
This is extremely nineties. Catmen vs Dogmen vs the government.
May 19, 2009
To sum it up: Catpeople wander the apocalyptic cityscape, solving a mystery involving cybertechnologies and the government. It's sci-fi pulp from the late 80s, so naturally the tagline is Welcome to the jungle! And, uh, the main character is named Slash.
***
Incredibly prescient for pulp: with its electronic mail...its vidphones...its tazers...its false flag operations to stir patriotism.
Still, its aircars, animal-form body modifications and recordable memory chip brain implants keep it well enough in the realm of science fiction. I'd say, a lot of the tech in this book is still 10 years in the future.
Quick nod to A Clockwork Orange (the violent glitterpeople, the enhanced milk)...also, the endtwist reminded me of the great endtwist of The Man Who Was Thursday.
***
Incredibly prescient for pulp: with its electronic mail...its vidphones...its tazers...its false flag operations to stir patriotism.
Still, its aircars, animal-form body modifications and recordable memory chip brain implants keep it well enough in the realm of science fiction. I'd say, a lot of the tech in this book is still 10 years in the future.
Quick nod to A Clockwork Orange (the violent glitterpeople, the enhanced milk)...also, the endtwist reminded me of the great endtwist of The Man Who Was Thursday.
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