Mercedes Nights

by Michael D. Weaver

A black-market cloning operation plots to sell duplicates of Mercedes Night, a hot vidstar, but the clones have minds of their own, and soon the real Mercedes must come to grips with the existence of several exact duplicates of herself

Genres: Science Fiction

256 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1987

Reviews

[Angus McKeogh · Rating 2 out of 5]

This little known science fiction book club selection has a positive blurb from K.W. Jeter on the back, but the book left a lot to be desired. For 184 pages the narrative was extremely convoluted and confusing. Dozens of characters filled the pages and 50% of the dialogue ended in exclamation marks. Not the worst science fiction book I’ve ever read. But also not among the best.

[Antoine · Rating 2 out of 5]

A hard book to love. The back cover blurb sells it well - the world is full of clones of world-famous sexpot Mercedes Night, which is fine for everyone except the original real Mercedes Night. Unfortunately the book itself is a let-down - the narrative never takes off, with far too many characters thrown into the mix early on. The book is only 240 pages long, but every page after page 50 felt like a drag. Apologies to the author if he's reading this review, but I won't be searching out his other works - Philip K. Dick covers this terrain much better.