Mir: A Novel of Virtual Reality

By Alexander Besher

Book Overview

Ultimately a love story--or what Alexander Besher calls more accurately a love triangle between a boy, a girl, and her tattoo--Mir manages to be both serious and silly cyberpunk. This tense,... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0684830876
• ISBN13: 9780684830872
• Release Date: July 1998
• Publisher: Simon & Schuster
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.8" x 1.0" x 6.5"

Customer Reviews

Not Free SF Reader

A cyberpunk book of the slightly later variety. Live tattoos, jokes, and others. How do you feel if your girlfriend only loves you for you tatts? A bit of espionage, industrial and otherwise, computer virus smuggling, dodgy underworld, dodgy characters, and more abound. Think sort of a Charlie Stross or Ken Macleod flavour for the general tone. Probably a 3.25 this one.

I think the book was great but...

I loved the book, but I think that Besher needs to work on the ending. It just sorta ends, there isn't much to it. All in all the book was excelent, and I would recomend it to anyone.

Buddhist-cyberpunk and virtual reality in the 21st century

Epidermal programming is a cutting edge fetish. Sentient tatoos and the Mir 3.0 virus are loose in a world that exists both in consciousness and physical form -- and techno-pagan rituals can assist in moving both from body to body.Original, intelligent, expansive and truly entertaining. The author is creating an epic story arc that is sure to become a classic. Highly recommended for those who can use a bit of altered reality!