Cythera

by Richard Calder

Book Overview

The illegal immigrants of the year 2025 aren't from the Third World--they're from cyberspace. The acclaimed author of DEAD BOYS, DEAD GIRLS, and DEAD THINGS writes a lyrical science fiction novel... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0312180748
• ISBN13: 9780312180744
• Release Date: January 1998
• Publisher: St. Martin's Press
• Length: 311 Pages
• Weight: 1.03 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.8" x 8.6"

Customer Reviews

Cythera

When I initially read this book, I found it somewhat confusing, seemingly a let down from the Dead Girls series. The writing itself may actually be somewhat improved, but the plot seemed difficult or impossible to follow.I've since re-read it twice more, along with re-reading the Dead Girls series several more times, and I've read Calder's most-recently-available-Stateside book, Frenzetta, twice to boot. Seeing them all again, and next to one another, it becomes more apparent that these books fit together in a larger scheme. With this in mind, a lot of the confusion in Cythera vanishes. There is still some ambiguity to the plot, but with the context of Frenzetta especially, some of the more seemingly inexplicable threads are resolved, for me. The remainder of them work well as deliberate ambiguity. And who knows, perhaps his other novels will provide greater clarity.I'm looking forward to picking up The Twist, just to see where it fits in, and what clues it leaves. I know it's already been alluded to at least once, in Cythera I believe, at that.