Another online review of The Amadeus Net to pass along, this one with much more heft to it. I am truly honored to be compared with Philip K. Dick.
You can find it here at Amazon.com, from one of their top 100 reviewers, Stone Junction. [Scroll down a little to see the review.]
A nice announcement about The Amadeus Net appears on the “about us” page of Abyss & Apex. Definitely an ezine you should check out if you like interesting and original SF and fantasy.
In The Amadeus Net, Mozart does not enter the sex-change clinic to avoid jail, but he does think it will help him keep out of the public eye.
In Bulgaria, an alleged thief is definitely in the spotlight, after having a sex-change operation, but it will keep him out of jail. Sretko Itskov, now known as Albena Mihailova, had the operation after being charged with theft. According to Bulgarian law, Albena can’t be charged for Sretko’s crimes.
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Welcome visitors from Digested Readers. This isn’t a review of The Amadeus Net, so much as a recap of what the book is about. If anyone would be interested in doing a review, please contact me via email to see if I can arrange to get you a reading copy.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart walks into the sex change clinic, determined to have his “sprouter” snipped off. So begins The Amadeus Net, a satirical novel that explores art, love, and identity at the end of the world.
The year is 2028. For more than two centuries, the one-time wunderkind has kept his existence secret while he tried to understand his immortality. Living in style through funds raised by selling “lost” Mozart works, he has also helped to create Ipolis, a utopian city-state, after the cataclysmic Shudder, a global disaster caused by an asteroid strike in 2015.
But a few complications mar Mozart’s perfect world. The woman he loves is a lesbian, which, paradoxically, makes him forget about his sex-change plans. The world’s greatest reporter knows he’s still alive and will stop at nothing to expose him. The stakes are higher than he knows, because if the reporter finds him, so will the spy planning to sell Mozart’s DNA to the highest bidder. Oh, and, by the way, the world might end in seven days.
Mozart’s only allies are a psychotic American artist, a bland Canadian diplomat, and the city itself: a sapient, thinking machine that is screwing up as only a sapient, thinking machine can.
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