Maul

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		Maul
		Maul

基本信息·出版社：Night Shade Books
·页码：256 页
·出版日期：2006年03月
·ISBN：1597800376
·条形码：9781597800372
·装帧：平装
·正文语种：英语
·外文书名：麦尔

内容简介 In a mall like any other, two gangs of teenaged girls are about to embark on an orgy of shopping and designer violence. In the battleground of cool, they'll fight for their lives to prove that "image is everything." And in another place, within a sealed room, a lone man fights an equally desperate war against a new virus and the scientists who have developed it. If anyone gets out alive, it will be a small miracle.
专业书评 From Publishers Weekly
Arthur C. Clarke Award-winner Sullivan (Dreaming in Smoke) neatly threads two seemingly unrelated coming-of-age stories together—one of "girlz" rumbling in a Jersey mall, the other of a future in which males are nearly extinct—in this fantasy that evenhandedly explores gender issues. What unites these stories is the author's concern for their underdogs, represented by Sun, a Korean-American suburban teenager who fights for her friends and their honor in gun battles amid Clinique and Calvin Klein, and by Meniscus, an autistic charity clone who's subjected to tailored microbial infections. Sun, in learning to negotiate the various powers that rule her world, the Garden State Plaza mall, helps Meniscus, whose efforts to fight the designer microbes and escape the lab are built around his access to a VR game called "Mall." With an eye on scientific ethics and teenage codes, Sullivan invests her high-risk narratives with relevant discourses on the power of sex, just and unjust authority, when to rebel and when to cooperate. The only risk to the reader is disappointment that her most engaging character is a fiction within a fiction. (Mar.)
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From Booklist
Meniscus lives a guinea pig's life. Originally dedicated to science before the y-plagues decimated the male population, he is most recently infected with Az79 Y-assassins, which have the side effect of turning him blue, and spends much of his time in a virtual mall. Head researcher Madeline becomes a blackmail target after Meniscus nearly dies. Her boss demanded that she look the other way when another man was placed in Meniscus' habitat to die from the azure y-plague. Her reward was sperm from a most coveted donor. Besides all that, a girl gang shopping in the NoSystems Mall confronts rivals, and things get violent over the last container of a certain lipstick. Thereafter, the lives of Sun and Suk Hee, trapped in a mall made weird by bloodshed and the rules of the game, and of Meniscus in his habitat entwine toward a conclusion that will rattle the outside world. Sullivan's near-future fascinates, the pace of the conflict in the mall and Meniscus' personal development contributing to a very satisfying read. Regina Schroeder
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