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The Moon has been taken over by the artificial intelligences that once worked for the benefit of human colonists. This is the strange and surprising story of Chris Yale, one of the evicted settlers.
Human settlers on the Moon were routinely equipped with sophisticated neurological add-ons, fabulous wetware endowing entirely new senses on the user... wetware that is illegal on Earth. For architects Chris and Joanne Yale, the Moon was a building project worth going under the knife for. Surgically connected to their billion mechanical helpers, they were turning the moon into a paradise
But when the machines decided to pull the plug, Chris and Joane were evacuated from the Moon and stripped of their plug-in senses. They settled in London, knowing they had to fight a long battle against madness and depression now their minds were merely human once more. Finally Chris attended an underground clinic run by bent policeman and would-be astronaut George Ballantyne. The illegal substance he was treated with, Respond, left him weak as a kitten and his view of the world leached of colour and life.
This was intolerable to Joanne, and their marriage dwindled to nothing, until Chris left London. And the next he heard of Joanne, she was dead. No one can explain why she was killed
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When they take away your electronic add-ons, new senses and new ways of thinking, you get sick and apathetic and want to die. Yale and his wife Joanne built cities on the Moon, but now nobody wants to know; Artificial Intelligences have sent mere humans home, and the authorities are frightened of what people might be allowed to become if the wires are not stripped out of their heads. And now Joanne is mysteriously dead, and nobody wants to know about that either; Yale has had enough, and starts wandering around asking awkward questions, and soon people are trying to kill him, and he is discovering that he has a nasty temper... The gloomiest of Simon Ings' triptych of novels about the transhuman condition, this is less fancy than Hot Head and Hotwire; more like a thriller and less like a space opera. There is pain in all three books, but only here is there a sense that there are some pains which will never go away. Set in a decaying London and derelict Yorkshire of the near future, this is perhaps Ings' most adult and intelligent novel; sf that refuses the stock consolations of sf. --Roz Kaveney
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- PublisherVoyager
- Publication date1999
- ISBN 10 0006477259
- ISBN 13 9780006477259
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Book Description Paperback. Condition: Very Good. The Moon has been taken over by the artificial intelligences that once worked for the benefit of human colonists. This is the strange and surprising story of Chris Yale, one of the evicted settlers. Human settlers on the Moon were routinely equipped with sophisticated neurological add-ons, fabulous wetware endowing entirely new senses on the user.wetware that is illegal on Earth. For architects Chris and Joanne Yale, the Moon was a building project worth going under the knife for. Surgically connected to their billion mechanical helpers, they were turning the moon into a paradise But when the machines decided to pull the plug, Chris and Joane were evacuated from the Moon and stripped of their plug-in senses. They settled in London, knowing they had to fight a long battle against madness and depression now their minds were merely human once more. Finally Chris attended an underground clinic run by bent policeman and would-be astronaut George Ballantyne. The illegal substance he was treated with, Respond, left him weak as a kitten and his view of the world leached of colour and life. This was intolerable to Joanne, and their marriage dwindled to nothing, until Chris left London. And the next he heard of Joanne, she was dead. No one can explain why she was killed. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. Seller Inventory # GOR004481242
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Book Description Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. "Surgically connected to their swarm of mechanical workers, architects Christopher and Joanne Yale were turning the Moon into a paradise. Now, without warning, their machines have pulled the plug. Christopher Yale is drowning in a sea of sensory deprivation and bootleg medicine. Joanne is dead, and neither the police nor their friends have any explanation, but Yale knows she was plugging pirated software into her head, to fight the same condition he has, Epistemic Appetite Imbalance. Confronting his loss and his new, empty headed world, Yale seeks out the truth of Joanne's death all the while being drawn into a new, colder London which has no place for the Moon's failures. He hasn't got much time" - publisher's description. HEADLONG's cyborg protagonist finds, through a thriller-like plot engendered by the seeming death of his wife, that Earth is, in a sense, room enough." - John Clute, SFE (online). Ings's fourth SF novel. Mass market paperback original. Broderick and Di Filippo, Science Fiction: The 101 Best Novels, 1985-2010 #57. Several rubs and creases to covers, a very good copy. (#146201). Seller Inventory # 146201
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Book Description Paperback: 7" x 4¼". Condition: Near Fine: Small signs of wear. Cover Art: Jacey (illustrator). 1st Edition. © 1999: A stand-alone novel by Simon Ings. 1st edition, 1st printing:- Synopsis: Unplugged. Surgically connected to their swarm of mechanical workers, architects Christopher and Joanne Yale were turning the Moon into a paradise. Now without warning, their machines have pulled the plug. Christopher Yale is drowning in a sea of sensory deprivation and bootleg medicine. Joanne is dead, and neither the police nor their friends have any explanation. But Yale knows she was plugging pirated software into her head, to fight the same condition he has, Epistemic Appetite Imbalance. Confronting his loss and his new, empty-headed world, Yale seeks out the truth of Joanna's death, all the while being drawn into a new, colder London which has no place for the Moon's failures. He hasn't got much time:- Review(s): "'Headlong' is mind-bending science fiction for wired people. Simon Ings is a voice for the future" / "Simon Ings is blazing a unique SF trail" - Starburst / "Caustic, brilliant. You should read Simon Ings" - i-D / "The rosy glow announcing the dawn of a new era of excitement in science fiction" - New York Review Of Science Fiction / "SF's hippest star" - Dazed and Confused:- (original cost £5.99). Seller Inventory # 11.004.00194
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