Nearly Roadkill

Paperback, 385 pages

English language

Published Jan. 5, 1996 by High Risk Books.

ISBN:: 978-1-85242-418-3
OCLC Number:: 35046127

(2 reviews)

"A novel written in cyberspace, Nearly Roadkill is an Infobahn erotic thriller without any boundaries - virtual, sexual, legal, or otherwise. What-appears-to-be Boy meets what-appears-to-be Girl. But their world is the Net, where any persona - and any gender - can be created. They pose as a host of different personalities, switching identities and genders as quickly as they create passwords. Named Scratch and Winc, these two genderless beings cybersurf into the various worlds on the Net as they fight government intervention on this final frontier."--BOOK JACKET

2 editions

Catship reviewed Nearly Roadkill by Kate Bornstein

It's messy in a really good way

4 stars

Everyone in this book is a mess and says and does questionable things. It's also very sweet, very very sweet.

Sci-fi wise, it's..... something inspired by 90s internet, but powered by targeted ads, which have become a political necessity cause the government needs business money to do internet.

And that's kinda the starting point for how things get much much bigger than the main characters. Two horny queers who meet again and again in different chat rooms and have sex. And like changing roles too much to behave in the predictable way that is needed for targeted ads.

I really like how the authors' intimate knowledge of weird internet cultures and the people who make them shows. There's even some multiples having a short appearance.

I'm not happy with the ending, but eh, it's fine.

mouse reviewed Nearly Roadkill by Kate Bornstein

like Hackers (1995) but with GENDER

5 stars

This book has the energy of Hackers (1995) but with an incredibly interesting and thoughtful exploration of gender, loads of sex, and a prescient read of corporate influence on internet culture.

Subjects

Internet -- Fiction.
Computer sex -- Fiction.
Information superhighway -- Fiction.

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