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4.0 out of 5 stars Zen Meets Cyberpunk, Jun 28 2004

By	Joshua Koppel (Chicago, IL United States) - See all my reviews (TOP 500 REVIEWER) (REAL NAME)

This review is from: Tea From a Empty Cup (Mass Market Paperback)

If you can wrap your mind around Zen concepts you might want to check out TEA FROM AN EMPTY CUP by Pat Cadigan, a short, but good, novel that takes a slightly Zen approach to the idea of virtual reality.

Virtual reality is here and it is cheap enough so that much of the population works just to live their lives in some of the virtual scenarios. One young man is found dead in a locked room where he was logged in. His throat was cut and there are no sharp objects in the room. A detective notices that a number of other similar deaths have occurred recently. Thus two quests are taken up as two women log in disguised as the young man and try to find out what he was doing and who he may have met. It is a strange world where things are more real than real. Sensations are heightened and rumors exist of a way out the other side. It is this world that the two women must navigate to find out what happened.

The switching viewpoints are a little more confusing that is usual but the future world is quite interesting. I like the melding of cyberpunk, virtual reality and Japanese philosophy. It blends well and offers a good backdrop for that rare commodity, the science-fiction mystery. I picked up the book to look at it and found myself hooked right away. A very entertaining read if you don't mind having your mind bent and limbered up a bit. Check it out.

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1.0 out of 5 stars Fool me once. . ., Sep 12 2003

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I bought this book based on a slew of hushed and awed reviews, and now issue fair warning. This is a shallow, pretentious, dull and silly book, which doesn't so much end as stagger to a halt. Word is that the 'story' picks up in a following book but, fool me once . . . Like Delmar, shackled in the flickering blue unreality of a picture show, I warn, "Do not seek the treasure." Unlike Delmar I know it is because there is no treasure to be found.

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1.0 out of 5 stars Utter Tripe, May 19 2003

By	R. Diamond - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

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Cyberspace is addictive, expensive and ultimately boring. Thanks for the newsflash.

With numerous typographical errors, undifferentiated cardboard characters, a murderously tedious whodunit and the most uninteresting rendition of cyberpunk in a decade, Cadigan has achieved a new low in modern science fiction.

Would have been more appropriately titled, Words from an Empty Book (and even that sounds more interesting than this book ends up being).

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4.0 out of 5 stars Good fun book for cyberpunk fans
This the first book of Pat Cadigan's I've read. I can't remember who or where I heard about it, but a good book. Read more

Published on April 19 2003 by Michael Pusateri

4.0 out of 5 stars Hey. . . I liked it.
I have to start off by saying that the cyberpunk genre is not my cup of tea (pun intended); however, due to a course I am taking in college, I have read a few books from this... Read more

Published on Dec 2 2002 by Kate Helmkamp

4.0 out of 5 stars Reality vs. Artificial Reality
"If it's reality, how can it possibly be artificial?" One of Pat Cadigan's characters asks this question in her novel Tea from an Empty Cup. Read more

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Tea from an Empty Cup is a cyberpunk novel with somewhat of a twist. A murder mystery entwines the lives of a smart homicide detective named Konstantin and a Japanese woman named... Read more

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