From:	Gurth <jweste%smtp@******.HZEELAND.NL>
Subject:	Re: Fantasy-Cyber fiction
Date:	Thu, 21 Apr 1994 12:59:03 +0200

I've bougth Mindstar Rising a couple of days ago. Haven't finished it
yet, but it's interesting. I don't recall who wrote it right now (sorry),
but he's from the UK, and the book was published last year.

It's not really a magic/cyberpunk-blend, but it does bear some sort of
resemblence to SR. The story's set in the UK, somewhere in the next
century. Ice caps have melt (Britain has a near-tropical climate in
March), making the sea levels rise, and flooding large parts of the
world. The People's Socialism Party was in power in the UK for something
like 8 to 10 years, which totally wrecked the country. Only the major
roads are still OK, there are lots of people living in one house (because
it was illegal to build new ones), etc.

In the middle of this all is Greg Mandel, a retired soldier, who has had
a "gland implant" which enables him to read other peoples' emotions. He
can tell whether someone is telling the truth or not, if he's happy or
sad, and so on. He gets hired by a major corp to investigate dumpings of
good chips, as well as doing other shadowrun-like jobs.

I won't say more (mainly because I haven't read muchfurther yet), but I
think it's a pretty good book, sort of fitting in with SR anyway.



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