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General Rotors CHEVROLET / GEO • PONTIAC • OLDSMOBILE • BUICK CADILLAC • CMC TRUCK • GMAC FINANCIAL SERVICES Cyberpunk book lacks substance “Crash course” Wilhelmina Baird Ace Science Fiction Rarely does a book like “Crashcourse” come along. Even more rare is the occasion that I finish such a book, instead of throwing it across the room and making a beeline for my Heinlein collection — to erase the bad memory. “Crashcourse” is aptly named, for it tries to take off, but pancakes into the literary landscape. The story revolves around three losers living on the edge who are signed for a movie contract — just why they’ re chosen is never adequately or coherently explained. Seeing it as their chance to get off-planet, they immediately accept, but find out there’s a hitch — their star is a psy chotic mass murderer. She kills her co-stars to record their sensations of death or terror, making it the ultimate in snuff films. They have to face her down, and a predictable standoff results, with a semihappy ending. The problems with this book are reflective of the cyberpunk genre in general. Less than a decade old, cyberpunk is showing the same signs of ossification that burden fantasy. While fantasy tries to endlessly copy J.R.R. Tolkien, cyberpunk end lessly tries to copy William Gibson, with little success. In fact, the surest sign of this copying is when a book compares itself to Gibson. The other sure-fire sign is a blurb on the cover from Gibson himself. He called this one a “pungent, gleamy dark street future.” There is very little substance here; apparently Baird counted on her style to carry the book. Style, though, is not enough, especially when it's bad style. Baird, like other cyberpunks, tries to be tragically hip, speaking in semicomprehensibie slang, moving her characters in jerky scenes from one meaningless encounter to the next. Cyberpunk is also becoming, like fantasy and Harlequin romances, too formulaic. The characters are always street types dressed in black and liv ing shady existences. They are always trying to scam someone or something. The cities they inhabit are always dark, run-down and depressing. The plots revolve around illegal deals and techno-junk. The biggest roadblock, though, is the characters. Baird creates one-di mensional cardboard cutouts about which you don’t give a damn. When one of the main characters gets killed, the other characters—and the reader — show almost no emotion. To be successful, a story has to create real, living, breathing people about whom the reader cares. It’s tough to do, but Baird, like other cyberpunks, doesn’t even seem to try. She seems to see characters merely as vehicles for her glib plot and sense less dialogue. 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