- Paperback: 592 pages
- Publisher: Del Rey; Original edition (Sep 29 2009)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0345499948
- ISBN-13: 978-0345499943
- Product Dimensions: 15.4 x 3.1 x 23.3 cm
- Shipping Weight: 590 g
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #1,141,582 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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“Like Houellebecq, Dantec takes his inspiration from both high and low brow culture; he is the sort of writer who cites Sun Tzu’s Art of War and the Stooges’ ‘Search and Destroy’ with equal facility.”—New York Times
“The spirit of Philip K. Dick . . . animates the heady metaphysical world of French author Maurice Dantec.”—Denver Post
“[Dantec is] France’s reigning master of cyberpunk.”—Booklist
“The spirit of Philip K. Dick . . . animates the heady metaphysical world of French author Maurice Dantec.”—Denver Post
“[Dantec is] France’s reigning master of cyberpunk.”—Booklist
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Visionary, gripping, sumptuous and tantalizing, Grande Junction is a masterwork of hip, literary science fiction.
On October 4, 2057, most electronic devices on Earth are infected and destroyed by unknown viruses, and billions of people dependent on machine interfaces are killed as a result. Twelve years later, the survivors are sunk in a new Dark Age, a grim afterworld in which the only law is the law of the jungle.
In the sprawling ruins of Grande Junction, a thriving urban community centered on an abandoned spaceport, civilization is hanging on by its fingernails. In this last fragile outpost of knowledge and reason, hope and faith, a second wave of lethal viruses is unleashed–viruses that attack human beings directly, stripping away language, thought, humanity itself.
But it is also here that a young boy, a guitar-playing prodigy named Link de Nova, discovers within himself the power to fight a malevolent entity determined to remake the world in its own bleak image. Now, as the viruses spread and enemies converge on Grande Junction, Link and his friends and protectors, Chrysler Campbell and Yuri McCoy, prepare to fight for the survival of the human race with rifles, radios, and rock ’n’ roll.
On October 4, 2057, most electronic devices on Earth are infected and destroyed by unknown viruses, and billions of people dependent on machine interfaces are killed as a result. Twelve years later, the survivors are sunk in a new Dark Age, a grim afterworld in which the only law is the law of the jungle.
In the sprawling ruins of Grande Junction, a thriving urban community centered on an abandoned spaceport, civilization is hanging on by its fingernails. In this last fragile outpost of knowledge and reason, hope and faith, a second wave of lethal viruses is unleashed–viruses that attack human beings directly, stripping away language, thought, humanity itself.
But it is also here that a young boy, a guitar-playing prodigy named Link de Nova, discovers within himself the power to fight a malevolent entity determined to remake the world in its own bleak image. Now, as the viruses spread and enemies converge on Grande Junction, Link and his friends and protectors, Chrysler Campbell and Yuri McCoy, prepare to fight for the survival of the human race with rifles, radios, and rock ’n’ roll.
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excessively verbose; enamored of 20th century US culture, Dec 14 2009
By Kraven Moorehead - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Grand Junction (Paperback)
I tried this book after the author was compared to William Gibson; That comparison had no basis in reality. Dantec goes on for 500+ pages to an amazingly predictable ending. perhaps I would've enjoyed it more if I was more knowlegeable about Catholic dogma, or if I was more fascinated by american rock and roll culture.
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cyberpunk at its best, Jan 3 2010
By Christophe Petit "oscar" - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Grand Junction (Paperback)
A vivid prose, a deep culture and a rarely seen density of imagination makes this epic novel a great speculative fiction book in the tradition of orwell, dick, burroughs and ballard. A mix of sergio leone, mad max and philip k dick.
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