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ISBN 0-553-29512-8 (US pbk)
novel, science fiction, cyberpunk, posthuman, identity, future, edge, brain police, women
Near future, United States. 3rd novel. Multiple personalities. Takes place in the same future as portrayed in her earlier book Mindplayers . Winner of the 1995 Arthur C.Clarke Award.
"In a world of mindsuckers and bodysnatchers, of Brain Police and personalities for sale, you can't take anything for granted -- not even your own identity. When Marva, a struggling Method actress, wakes up in a hologram pool in an exclusive priv club with fancy new clothes, plenty of money, and the memory of a murder, she knows she had better find out whose life she is living, and fast. Pursued by assassins from a mysterious Escort Service as well as by renegade mind-pirates of every description, including her own, Marva must venture into the seamy Downs to learn who has written the script of the most difficult role of her career." [jacket blurb, US pbk, 1992]
"Cadigan is a writer of considerable power, adept at drawing sympathetic characters, and with a quick, black wit. Fools is a very good writer's best book yet." --Richard Kadrey (in Covert Culture Sourcebook , 1993).
"Reading Fools is the ultimate mind-suck. One moment you're thinking, help -- what's Cadigan on? Then you're hooked, flipping the pages to find out what happens next." --Marianne Brace (in The Guardian, Wednesday 16 March 1994).
"Hardcore cyberpunk. A multi-levelled and complex detective thriller." --Henry W.Targowski (in Mark/Space , 1995).
Highly recommended.
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