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Silver Screen (1999)
A novel by Justina Robson

 
Awards
Philip K Dick Award (nominee)
Arthur C. Clarke Award (nominee)
"Perfect blend of excitement and thought-provoking concepts ... far above the ordinary."
Peter F Hamilton


Ray Croft may or may not have been a genius. On his death he left behind a court case that could destroy everything he had worked for, and a rival who's about to live out Roy's dream, but turning himself into a machine. He also left a special mystery which only one person alive can solve.This first novel by a young British author offers an enjoyably different, even subversive, slant on AIs and cyberspace. Insecure and overweight heroine Anjuli O'Connell is a flawed genius whose photographic memory makes her worry about how human she is. Her best friend, after all, is the quirky corporate AI named 901--successor to past versions of 900, the mysteriously disaster-prone 899, etc. A human friend dies to upload his mind into cyberspace, seeking that SF dream of bodiless immortality ... which doesn't work as expected. Another pal interfaces with terrifying biomechanoid weapons- suits that pull their wearer into mental symbiosis, a new "I" continuous with the old but different: "Where does life end and the machine begin?" Meanwhile 901's grasping multinational owners OptiNet, and the Machine-Greens who preach AI liberation, seem equally murderous. As 901's humanity or otherwise becomes a case for the Strasbourg Court, expert witness Anjuli is targeted by assassins and entangled in the hunt for a Hitchcockian McGuffin known as the Source, perhaps literally the secret of life. This requires a hair-raising solo commando assault, in that biomech suit, on a cult church's heavily fortified abbey bunker. Robson's plot zigzags in unexpected directions, especially with revelations about the Source; there's tragedy and trauma, but happy surprises too. An impressive SF debut. --David Langford

Genre: Science Fiction
 
Used availability for Justina Robson's Silver Screen


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Paperback Editions

October 2005 : Paperback
Title: Silver Screen
Author(s):: Justina Robson
ISBN: 1591023386 / 9781591023388 (USA edition)
Publisher: Pyr
Availability: Amazon UK   Amazon   Amazon CA   

March 2000 : Paperback
Title: Silver Screen
Author(s):: Justina Robson
ISBN: 0330375660 / 9780330375665 (UK edition)
Publisher: Tor
Availability: Amazon   Amazon UK   

August 1999 : Paperback
Title: Silver Screen
Author(s):: Justina Robson
ISBN: 0333754379 / 9780333754375 (UK edition)
Publisher: Tor
Availability: Amazon UK   Amazon   

Kindle Editions

October 2005 : Kindle edition
Title: Silver Screen
Author(s):: Justina Robson
ISBN: B002D48O0Y
Publisher: Pyr
Availability: Amazon   Amazon UK   

 


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