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Loading... Screwtop/The Girl Who Was Plugged In (1989)by James Tiptree Jr., Vonda N. McIntyre
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. My reactions to reading this double in 1998. Spoilers follow. “Screwtop”, Vonda N. McIntyre -- An engrossing but not terribly memorable story about life in a prison camp on an alien world. The characters were fairly well done. I particularly liked Gryf – the character with four genetic parents. “The Girl Who Was Plugged In”, James Tiptree, Jr I read this after watching an adaptation of it on the Sci-Fi Channel’s Welcome to Paradox. It was a fairly faithful adaptation which shows, stripped of Tiptree’s hip language, that this is a love story. It is one of the precursors to cyberpunk with the protagonist’s displaced mind, her love affair mediated via a telepresence. It reminded strongly of Frederik Pohl’s classic “Day Million”. (I have no idea if Tiptree was consciously responding to it or not.). Both talk directly to the reader in a chatty, edgy vernacular (though this story is substantially longer) and are love stories made bizarre and rococo by future technologies. I’m not a fan of Tiptree and consider her overrated, but I liked this one. no reviews | add a review
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Google Books — Loading... GenresMelvil Decimal System (DDC)813.54Literature English (North America) American fiction 20th Century 1945-1999LC ClassificationRatingAverage:
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I'm vaguely annoyed that TOR decided to insert a random snippet of some up and coming novel (Swordspoint, by Ellen Kushner), in the center, I suppose to add pages (46, give or take a blank page or so). ( )