Bad Voltage

Bad Voltage

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High-tech lowlifes, bio-enhanced delinquents, or doped-out street kids, they've learned to survive in riot-torn future Paris, playing simulated war games in the fall-out shelters beneath the city. Soaring high and fast on gravfield skimboots, they head straight into the heart of violence and terror, then out and down to the safety of the tunnels to party unti...more
Paperback, 309 pages
Published June 6th 1989 by Roc
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Patrick
Left to my own devices, this is the kind of crap I would write all the time: unadulterated cyberpunk drivel, filled with profuse drug use, sassy/cynical characters, unabashedly gushy prose, and strews of earnest, embarrassing/cool futureslang: essentially, Neuromancer fan fiction.

The fact that Bad Voltage's inspiration is Neuromancer is no secret: Case from Neuromancer gets name dropped once, and I have the suspicion the character on the cover is supposed to be some badass version of William Gi...more
Ed
Part of the popular/mainstream response to cyberpunk writers like Gibson and Sterling, this "pulp" cyberpunk novel rehashes most of the technocultural, cybercultural tropes of late-80s sci-fi including near-future urban setting (this time Paris), youth culture, drugs, techno music, high-speed chases, jacking in, gang warfare, and downloaded consciousness. However, as I write about in my dissertation, Littell's Bad Voltage offers an interesting counterpoint to Gibson's Neuromancer in how it deals...more
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A bi-lingual (English / French) writer living in Barcelona. He is a dual citizen of the United States and France and is of Jewish background. His first novel written in French, Les Bienveillantes , won two major French awards.
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