Skip to main content
PBS logo
 
 

Search - Slant (Queen of Angels, Bk 4)

Slant (Queen of Angels, Bk 4)
Slant - Queen of Angels, Bk 4
Author: Greg Bear
In the sixth decade of the twenty-first century, Earth has been transformed. Nanotechnology has been perfected, giving humans the ability to change their environment and themselves down to the cellular level. And the study of the mind has brought a revolution in human psychotherapy and artificial intelligence. — It's a sane and perfect world....  more »
ISBN-13: 9780312855178
ISBN-10: 0312855176
Publication Date: 7/1997
Pages: 349
Rating:
  • Currently 3.9/5 Stars.
 8

3.9 stars, based on 8 ratings
Publisher: Tor Books
Book Type: Hardcover
Other Versions: Paperback
Members Wishing: 1
Reviews: Member | Amazon | Write a Review

Top Member Book Reviews

althea avatar reviewed Slant (Queen of Angels, Bk 4) on + 774 more book reviews
Helpful Score: 3
Slant, is a aequel to Queen of Angels, but, I would say, is much less ambitious and also a much better book.
Policewoman Mary Choy is back, after a few life changes (divorce, move from LA to Seattle, job change). When she's called on to assist in an investigation of sex workers killed through botched back-alley nanotech operations, she does not expect to be launched into a far-reaching conspiracy to bring down society. But a billionaire investor's mysterious suicide, a virtual-reality murder, and an unprecedented epidemic of mental disturbances and general crime all seem to be somehow related...
With diverse characters that include a has-been porn star, a scientist with self-induced Tourette's syndrome, a renegade AI, and a heist mastermind without a past, Bear discusses many of the same themes as in the previous book, but in the context of a complex, entertaining and action-filled novel.
reviewed Slant (Queen of Angels, Bk 4) on + 2 more book reviews
Helpful Score: 1
Loved this one. At once futuristic and prophetic. Even in 1996 Bear predicted that we will all be staring into tiny little screens of our "pads", what today is the "smart phone". But that's just part of the story.
Highly recommend this book.
Read All 4 Book Reviews of "Slant Queen of Angels Bk 4"


Genres: