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    Trouble and her Friends

    By Melissa Scott

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    One of the quintessential and award-winning novels of the cyberpunk genre returns in a striking new edition. India Carless, alias Trouble, managed to stay one step ahead of the feds until she retired from life as a hacker and settled down to run a small network for an artist’s co-op. Now someone has stolen her pseudonym and begun to use it for criminal hacking. So Trouble returns. Once the fastest gun on the electronic frontier, she has been called out of retirement for one last fight. And it’s a killer.
    Less than a hundred years from now, the forces of law and order crack down on the world of the Internet. It is the closing of the frontier. The hip, noir adventurers who got by on wit, bravado, and drugs, who haunt the virtual worlds of the shadows of cyberspace are up against the edges of civilization. It’s time to adapt or die.

    “Scott’s talents for creating a future both hauntingly familiar and exotically remote are showcased in this feminist cyberpunk romp.”—Publishers Weekly

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherLethe Press
    Release dateAug 23, 2014
    ISBN9781311261793
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    Trouble and her Friends
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    Melissa Scott

    Melissa Scott is from Little Rock, Arkansas, and studied history at Harvard College and Brandeis University, where she earned her PhD in the Comparative History program. She is the author of more than thirty original science fiction and fantasy novels, most with queer themes and characters, as well as authorized tie-ins for Star Trek: DS9, Star Trek: Voyager, Stargate SG-1, Stargate Atlantis, and Star Wars Rebels. She won Lambda Literary Awards for Trouble and Her Friends, Shadow Man, Point of Dreams (written with her late partner, Lisa A. Barnett), and Death By Silver, with Amy Griswold. She also won Spectrum Awards for Shadow Man, Fairs’ Point, Death By Silver, and for the short story “The Rocky Side of the Sky” (Periphery, Lethe Press) as well as the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer. She was also shortlisted for the Otherwise (Tiptree) Award. Her latest short story, “Sirens,” appeared in the collection Retellings of the Inland Seas, and her text-based game for Choice of Games, A Player’s Heart, came out in 2020. Her most recent solo novel, Water Horse, was published in June 2021. Her next solo novel, The Master of Samar, will be out in 2023.

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    • 3/5
      This started out promising, I think Scott is a decent writer. But then it turned into a slog to read. I finished because it's for book club. I am not into Cyper Punk, so that's part of it, but a good story usually pulls me in and this one didn't.
    • 5/5
      This book was incredibly meaningful to nineteen-year-old me.
    • 4/5
      Good cyberpunk. It's more of a fun adventure than a deep, analyzing society kinda book, but I enjoyed reading it twice....
    • 4/5
      First off, the book is about hackers written in 1994, so its a bit dated, on the other hand, it is a well written story. I really enjoyed the characters of Trouble and Cerise - its not often you find an author who can write about a partnership that is truly equal. The first chapter, led me to think that it will be a typical leader/follower relationship, but I was pleasantly surprised when both characters tended to take a leadership role, and each had weaknesses and strengths. The secondary characters were just that, secondary. While they had the potential to be fully fleshed out, not much time was spent on them, and in in few spots, it would have helped the story along if there was a back story. The evil character in the story wasn't much more than a caricature. The story fell apart at the end and Trouble's new job was given to her to easily.About the internet - I think that Melissa Scott got the actual hacking part of the story right, but missed everything else. For example, Trouble has to use an unsecured landline phone from a bar. As a reader, I just want to say "Get a Cell Phone!". Trouble spends a lot of her time looking for a phone :) Other things - in a world where everybody has a Facebook page, shops online, and has multiple email accounts, Trouble's world is very limited and does not fit today's reality. The fear of the new unknown internet in 1994 is presented in this book. The author takes the story in a logical fashion, but in today's online world, it feels very dated.
    • 4/5
      3.5/5stars. Vintage cyberpunk/shadowrun originally published in the mid-90s. It held up amazing well and reads as fresh today.
    • 4/5
      Well written, but the physical metaphor for the internet and the references to the "BBS" as the common space are dated. The gender politics are also slightly dated, but then, twenty years ago it would have been impossible to predict the rise of gayglers, and gay geeks in general. If she were writing it today, she'd probably make more of the gender fluidity of the net.