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Killobyte
Walter Toland has the heart and soul of a hero - but his physical body is confined to a wheelchair. He lost both his legs and his job in the line of duty as a policeman. Baal Curran is a high school senior, full of the promise and heartbreak of her first love, and her first loss. The needle scarring from her diabetes drove away the only boy ever to care for her. Now she ha...more
Mass Market Paperbound, 312 pages
Published
January 1st 1994
by ACE
(first published 1993)
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I really enjoyed this book. I thought that the total immersion game theme was fun and well done, a chance to put modern people in Medieval and other situations.
I didn't have any major problems with the plot or characters. I actually thought they were both very well-done. I would rate it higher except I think it may have become a bit dated in recent years, and it kind of threw me off at times.
Baal, the main female character, has diabetes, and is completely ostracized for...more
I didn't have any major problems with the plot or characters. I actually thought they were both very well-done. I would rate it higher except I think it may have become a bit dated in recent years, and it kind of threw me off at times.
Baal, the main female character, has diabetes, and is completely ostracized for...more
I first read this book in what I seem to remember as sixth grade, as the Internet was coming into its own. Around this time I was first exposed to the burgeoning AOL chatroom scene, mysterious and inviting, with implications that could hardly be grasped. It was a new and total thing. A modern breakthrough, and the world was changed forever.
So when I read this book, I was immersed in the possibility that something like this was on the horizon, that virtual technology lay in the not...more
So when I read this book, I was immersed in the possibility that something like this was on the horizon, that virtual technology lay in the not...more
Perhaps it suffered from being read just after Spider Robinson's "Very Bad Deaths", but this book just felt sort of flat to me. Not Anthony's best work, by far. The plot was interesting, the pace was fine (although I think he achieved the never-stopping action imperfectly; yes, it never stops, but after a while it felt redundant rather than suspenseful). The characters were even fairly likable, but I didn't believe in them and the villain didn't strike me as a threat at all. It fel...more
It has been a while since I have read this, but I remeber something about a diabetic girl who gets stuck in a virtual reality gaming world and a paraplegic man must come to her rescue before she dies.
Good concept, but poor execution. The virtual worlds were kind of boring and too much time was spent in each.
Good concept, but poor execution. The virtual worlds were kind of boring and too much time was spent in each.
This book is great, especially when you take into account how long ago it was written. I wish parts of this story could be real. I would pay any amount of money to enjoy the technology described.
I liked this as a teenager, but this time, I couldn't get 50 pages in. The writing is awkward and boring, and the characterization is worse.
Ingenious plot. One of Piers Anthony's best and one where it is easy to place yourelf in the main character's shoes (no pun intended!).
Tale along the lines of the film Westworld, but with a few twists that make for a better story.
Fascinating view of the future plus the characters are adorable and hard to forget. <3
Virtual worlds and cyberspace out of control. Great book and ahead of it's time.
Still blows my mind that this 1993 book portended so much of the modern net.
Probably the book by Anthony that I liked best. A little strained and such but an enjoyable read. Trapped in a virtual world unable to extract yourself due to a crazed hacker (a phreak). Interesting idea. The protagonist who's body is injured and restricted to a wheelchair but who can still be the hero in the virtual world of Killobyte is one of Anthony's better creations in my opinion...but then over all I can't be said to be an Anthony fan either. Still, some problems aside (the same ones I se...more
Oh, god, this was AWFUL! But it was awful in a kind of hilarious way, and also painful, because with a little more love and care and let's just be honest with ourselves here a completely different author, it would have been an awesome book. The premise was awesome, there were a few seriously interesting things going on but the prose was just so profoundly incompetent and the plot and characters were so mechanical and poorly realized that two stars is actually kind of pushing it.
I remember this book being terrifying to me because the the diabetes issues that arise during the story. I'm not sure if that plot aspect would be quite as scary unless you personally had diabetes or knew someone who did (as was my case).
I love the concept of being able to physically enter a game. I read this before games such as WOW even existed, and multi-player strategy games were very limited. It was fun to imagine how much farther such things could go.
A decently entertaining stab at cyberpunk for an author mostly known for his fantasy works.
Amanda
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computer nerds, videogame nerds, nerds
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My boyfriend tried to convince me of the entertaining qualities of this book. I thought it was a little too hokey and computer-nerdish for me. Also, the diabetic & crippled cop subplots were weird.
A mystery, a love story, and a hacker thriller all in one.
It's a bit dated in it's computer terminology and it's take on the gamer/hacker culture but it's still intriguing.
It's a bit dated in it's computer terminology and it's take on the gamer/hacker culture but it's still intriguing.
This is an excellent read. I couldn't put it down. About a virtual reality MMPORG where two players get locked into the game. Excellent!
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