Everyone in Silico - Softcover

Still, not everyone seeks to leave the "meat" world. A genetic-engineering artist known as Nicky creates rat-dog splices to sell to naive tourists and resists her mother's pleas to live in Frisco. Professional adman Doug Patterson watches his city, job, and marriage start to crumble as his coworkers and neighbors move online. When she loses her 12-year-old grandson to Frisco, Eileen Ellis dons her old military bodysuit and becomes, once again, a deadly supersoldier--but this time, she serves no corporate master. And Paul, mysterious soul in the cybermachine, seeks to orchestrate a new destiny for the human race.

Everyone in Silico is the third novel by Jim Munroe, the former managing editor of radical anti-advertising magazine Adbusters. As a book, Everyone in Silico is rather wobbly. The pace is unvarying, the dialogue is sometimes slack, and the climax is diffuse. But like Steve Aylett and Paul Di Filippo, his fellow science-fiction satirists at publisher Four Walls Eight Windows, Monroe is unorthodox, off-kilter, and interesting. --Cynthia Ward

. . . Munroe drops in excellent touches -- bioterrorists planting seeds, not bombs; home cloning labs -- that help make SILICO one of the freshest and scariest, yet most hopeful, near-future yarns in a long time." --TIME OUT NEW YORK, October 24, 2002

"Young Toronto author Munroe proves no less inventive with his third novel than he did with his others . . . as he projects a future in which a global virtual reality corporation is winning the p.r. battle against those who prefer to live their lives the old way. . . . The plot dynamics and imaginative leaps are engaging, and the care Munroe takes in examining Frisco as a full-fledged, not unattractive phenomenon also marks this as a story to be taken seriously."
--KIRKUS REVIEWS, August 15, 2002