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Lover and hero, Jack Barron, the sold-out media god of the Bug Jack Barron Show, has one last chance to hit it big when he meets Benedict Howards, the power-mad man with the secret to immortality. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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4.0 out of 5 stars Where are you when we need you Jack Barron, May 6 2002

By	dinadan26 "dinadan26" (Burwood, New South Wales Australia) - See all my reviews

...this work was dated, it is dated in its language, it is dated in the world view that it presented, but it is perhaps most dated in presenting a "media" figure who has retained some morality and who refuses to completely sell out to the powers to be.

In a nut shell, a once powerful leader of a left leaning political group has sold out his ideals, to become the host of the best rating current affairs show in America. By chance he is offered the chance to break a story on the most powerful corporate figure in America, a story which could change the fabric of America. Does he break the story, or does he accept the very attractive offer made by the corporate figure - after all wouldn't we all like to forever.

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1.0 out of 5 stars An old book that doesn't wear well, Mar 5 2002

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I read this book -- and was somewhat impressed -- when I was a kid, but rereading it today it seems like a book written mostly to impress adolescents of the 1970s. The female characters are poorly drawn, the hip lingo is *really* out-dated, and the conundrum faced by the protagonist fails to grab today's adult readers. Even the profanity is boring.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Wonderful Read, Wonderful Imagination, Jul 24 2001

By	J. A Magill (Sacramento, CA USA) - See all my reviews (TOP 500 REVIEWER) (REAL NAME)

Norman Spinrad is one of those authors who never "broke out" but not because of the quality of his work. I would rank him with Ellison and Dick for quality. In short, he should be one of the greats.

His imagination is so rich that you will spend as much, or more, time thinking about what you are reading as actually reading his work. This book is a tremendous example of his gift. Spinrad understands the direction our purient privacy denying society twenty years before we arrived in our current sorry state.

If anything, reading this book you often forget when he was writing because the society he describes is seemingly so famil

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5.0 out of 5 stars SF that's all too real.
If you've got a problem, bug Jack Barron, the television personality with one-hundred million viewers. If you've got $50,000. Read more

Published on Oct 19 2000 by S Smyth

4.0 out of 5 stars Cyberpunk, before Gibson & co...
This is a great pre-cyberpunk novel. The main character, Jack Barron, is a TV journalist. His nemesis and arch-villain is one rich and ruthless industrial. Read more

Published on May 5 2000 by Joss Delage

5.0 out of 5 stars Classic Premonition
Jack Barron is the prototype for Larry King/Ted Koppel. When I read this book while in high school in 1970 I was blown away. Read more

Published on Dec 25 1998