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Everyone in Silico
by Jim Munroe
Product Group: Book
Publisher: No Media Kings (2002-04)
ISBN: 0968636314
EAN: 9780968636312
Paperback: 256 pages
SKU: 07040241
Condition: Very Good As issued
Comments: Trade Paperback. Very Good condition with no markings. No highlights, underlines or notes in text. No creases to spine and one shallow crease in front cover with a couple of dog-eared pages.. Minor wear to cover. Tight binding and clean crisp text. Very Nice copy.
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Editorial Reviews
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Product Description
In Vancouver in 2036, people are tired of the rain. They're willing to give up a lot for guaranteed sunshine, a life with no wasted hours. A life free of crime and disease. A life that ends when you want it to, not when some faceless entity decides it's your time. Those who don't buy in — the poor, the old, the paranoid — have to watch as their loved ones, their friends, and their jobs leave the city. They have to watch as the latest prestige technology, Self, changes everything — not just the world but humanity itself. On the bright side, the rents have dropped. And in several unexpected ways, resistance is growing. This fascinating work of fiction tells what can happen when the cyberworld becomes more important than the real world.
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Amazon.com Review
In Jim Munroe's near-future novel Everyone in Silico, San Francisco has been destroyed by an earthquake and replaced by the virtual city of Frisco. Nearly everyone on earth wants to move to this fashionable cyberworld. This is no surprise. The physical world has become a sort of virtual reality: no one has privacy, and everyone is monitored by the corporations. Everyone is both consumer and salesperson, earning money by shilling cigarettes or software to strangers and friends. Why not abandon the flesh for the everlasting cyberspace of Frisco?Still, not everyone seeks to leave the "meat" world. A genetic-engineering artist known as Nicky creates rat-dog splices to sell to naive tourists and resists her mother's pleas to live in Frisco. Professional adman Doug Patterson watches his city, job, and marriage start to crumble as his coworkers and neighbors move online. When she loses her 12-year-old grandson to Frisco, Eileen Ellis dons her old military bodysuit and becomes, once again, a deadly supersoldier--but this time, she serves no corporate master. And Paul, mysterious soul in the cybermachine, seeks to orchestrate a new destiny for the human race. Everyone in Silico is the third novel by Jim Munroe, the former managing editor of radical anti-advertising magazine Adbusters. As a book, Everyone in Silico is rather wobbly. The pace is unvarying, the dialogue is sometimes slack, and the climax is diffuse. But like Steve Aylett and Paul Di Filippo, his fellow science-fiction satirists at publisher Four Walls Eight Windows, Monroe is unorthodox, off-kilter, and interesting. --Cynthia Ward
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Customer Reviews
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Witty But a Little Clueless
Rating  (2)
Date: 2008-01-25
1 out of 1 customers found this reveiw helpful
If you are afraid of virtual reality which will take over our world, you may get some food for thought in this novel. Munroe presents a world in 2036 when everyone wants to get transferred to virtual reality Frisco (ex San Francisco sadly destroyed by an earthquake) leaving their bodies behind. Munroe has some interesting ideas but he apparently likes them so much that instead of moving the plot forward dwells on them for far too long. In effect they don't really come together to make a real novel.
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lately
Rating  (5)
Date: 2005-10-27
0 out of 1 customers found this reveiw helpful
I read this book years ago and kinda forgot about it, but from time to time I find myself thinking about it for no apparant reason and wanted to come here and give it a huge thumbs up.
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Science, subculture, and silicon
Rating (5)
Date: 2003-05-21
3 out of 3 customers found this reveiw helpful
It's always interesting to read someone's work after you've met them and spent some time talking about other topics. Jim's novel is very much a reflection and projection of his personality and interests. The anarchist former managing editor of Adbusters crams a lot of political, cultural, and scientific concepts into this novel, which is a good companion read to the work of Cory Doctorow. Everyone in Silico isn't hard sf -- but that doesn't mean that it's soft or easy. Jim's ideas of homegrown genetic engineering, subcultural self-organization, street-level marketing, and the economics and experience of a digital afterlife are fascinating and forward thinking. Down to details such as the tattoo that, when scanned, dials an encrypted phone number, Everyone in Silico's dystopian future is deftly and effectively outlined as the multilayered plot unfolds.(This review originally appeared in Heath Row's Media Diet, ...)
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Horrible....YUCK YUCK YUCK
Rating  (1)
Date: 2003-04-16
3 out of 20 customers found this reveiw helpful
This is a horrible book. I have never felt so negatively about a book. NEVER! You can't follow the story, who is who? Who is real and who is in "Frisco" and has their body stored. What's up with the freaky make your own pets???? And the air??? The debt collectors vans that snatch you....What happened??? Confusion....ick.....what a waste of a tree.....
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Snap this up if you can find it!
Rating (5)
Date: 2002-09-19
0 out of 3 customers found this reveiw helpful
... take it from me, this is his finest book to date. Everyone in Silico explores -- with surprising delicacy -- themes ranging from the surreal to the quotidian and emerges triumphant and satisfying. ...
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