false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172527986m/185825.jpg 185825 7 "So it's true what they say: <I>information wants to be free</I>!" But the information in question, in this case, is Dee Model, a sexy, butt-kicking, love-slave android who's just mysteriously become self-aware, eluded her owner, and filed for her own autonomy. And the person making the remark (ironic given that it's a centuries-old reference) is Ax Terminal, a "freelance professional eunuch and part-time catamite," a resident of New Mars, the wormhole-away-from-Jupiter free-market anarchy set up thanks to the fast-folk, an uploaded race of überhumans experiencing reality and evolving at ultrahigh speeds. Android Dee, as it turns out, may have been nudged toward freedom by Jon Wilde, her cloned body's former husband (they met at Glasgow University back in the '70s), who just recently came back from the dead (revived by himself, in robot form) to join in the struggle between robot abolitionists and the malicious boss man of New Mars, David Reid (Wilde's former rival and owner of the sex slave that happens to be a cloned copy of Wilde's former wife). Now <I>this</I> is what great science fiction is all about.<p> Action-packed, inventive, and satisfyingly weird, Ken MacLeod's <I>Stone Canal</I> (the retroactively U.S.-released prequel to <I>The Cassini Division</I>) lets loose with a steady stream of challenging ideas and novel technology, taking on questions of free will, identity, and the nature of consciousness, all the while telling a bang-up story. Reminiscent of K.W. Jeter's best work, <I>The Stone Canal</I> certainly deserves a look. <I>--Paul Hughes</I> 1104971 1996 The Stone Canal: A Novel (Fall Revolution) total:151|5:39|4:60|3:41|2:8|1:3| 151 577 229 9 3 0 false false Tue Mar 03 12:52:09 -0800 2009 Tue Mar 03 13:12:12 -0800 2009 more...]]> 4 1 false false Mon Nov 12 00:21:11 -0800 2007 Mon Nov 12 00:21:39 -0800 2007 5 0 false false Tue Feb 10 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Thu Mar 12 15:11:49 -0700 2009 Thu Mar 12 15:16:18 -0700 2009 Alternating between recollections of the recent past and near future to a time far in the future on the settlement of New Mars, it finds the protagonist suddenly reborn from a digital ...more...]]> 5 0 false false Mon Mar 30 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat May 09 18:00:42 -0700 2009 Sat May 09 18:01:10 -0700 2009 more...]]> 0 0 false false Tue Dec 01 13:47:23 -0800 2009 Tue Dec 01 13:47:23 -0800 2009 5 0 false false Sun May 06 22:56:31 -0700 2007 Sun May 06 23:01:14 -0700 2007
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