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Title: Sisters of Glass by D. W. St John ISBN: 0-9658407-2-7 Publisher: Elderberry Press Pub. Date: August, 1999 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $19.95

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Average Customer Rating: 4 (6 reviews)

Rating: 4
Summary: On past William Gibson
Comment: Although I think William Gibson (Neuromancer, Mona Lisa Overdrive) is not very good at the mechanics of writing, his conception of stories and originating ideas such as virtual reality, cyberpunks and so on are wonderful at feeding the imagination's hunger. But recently I've discovered D.W. St. John whom is a little better at mechanics, a little better storyteller and has gone beyond what Gibson has imagined for the future. Since all of what we see, feel, taste etc are just firings of synapses, there is now Ultimate Reality, which is basically fantasy programs that can be plugged into the brain for whatever experience. After which follows the by product of a huge population of UR junkies whom are always passed out in a program, only waking up to eat or to perform other bodily functions and for these interruptions have come to hate the flesh and it's empirical imperfections. This is just one plot among the many in Sisters of Glass involving un-bioethical corporations, intrusive government and a loner on the run and in love with a clone. Whichever anime company gets the rights to this one first will have a classic on their hands.

Rating: 5
Summary: LOOKING FOR SOME LOUSY ROMANCE GARBAGE, WON'T FIND IT HERE!
Comment: It was great! You won't find some stereotype romance here!

Rating: 5
Summary: PROSE GLASS SHARP! WEAR GLOVES WHEN YOU READ THIS!
Comment: This novel is almost 400 pages of scene. Intense doesn't even begin to cover it. No filler. No page after page of narrative summary. No symbolism. No artsy fartsy description dragging on for pages to let the writer prove how literary he is.

Every word takes you right there. This is it, take it or leave it. Okay, so there's some jargon in it about the net and DNA, so what? It's a story about some very real people, that's all, even if they do live in the future.

It's about what it means to be human, what it means to be a man. Raymond Chandler might have written it if he had lived to see 2000. He didn't, so it's up to this guy, St.John, (whoever the hell he is) to do it.

It ain't Danielle Steele. I haven't slept in two days reading the damned thing and I still can't get it out of my head.

Read it.