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Title: Strange City: The Future of Neo-Tech by Charles Beeler, Wolf Kahn ISBN: 0-7388-2270-1 Publisher: Xlibris Corporation Pub. Date: 08 August, 2000 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $24.99

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Average Customer Rating: 1 (1 review)

Rating: 1
Summary: Couldn't finish it.
Comment: I got about two-thirds of the way through this book before deciding that I couldn't finish it. I was hoping to read a reasonably coherent depiction of the Neo-Tech philosophy, but what I got is a weird, weird, weird! mix of: Ayn Rand; Transhumanism; Right-Wing historical conspiracy theories; ignorantly portrayed ethnic and racial stereotypes; and despite the explicit Atheism, some quasi-religious ideas similar to those of Mormonism, the Jehovah's Witnesses, the Technological Singularity theory, Christian Rapture/"Left Behind" theology, and even Frank Tipler's Omega Point theory.

Now, there is no reason a priori why these elements could not have been incorporated into a mind-bending story, provided that the writer was reasonably competent and had a sense of irony. (Philip K. Dick comes to mind.) But this author (1) is an uncritical Neo-Tech true believer, despite the fact that Neo-Techies aren't succeeding in life better than the rest of us, and (2) clearly isn't literate enough to have any business writing novels, as evident by the pervasive misspellings, lack of punctation, broken sentences, etc. I also have to wonder how much of the novel's weirdness is due to the source material, namely, Frank Wallace's Neo-Tech, and how much is due to the author's particular obsessions. It's not weird enough in the right way even to be unintentionally funny. Definitely not worth buying.