Thoroughly disturbing and believable!
I recommend this title without reservation.

Just far too conventional for my tastes.

And the backing vocals annoy the hell out of me.

Many will disagree with me that this represents an astounding, breathtaking work.

Bleakly haunting, yet beautiful.

Great direction and performances all around, an excellent script oozing with Philip K. Dick-style paranoia, and a modicum of class consciousness… what could possibly put a damper on this film?

One of the most compromising, candied Hollywood endings ever. Good lord. It’s tacked on and takes every shred of believabilty out of the whole film, too. Bad writing.

An utter bore, but an excellent ending which is by no means worth the trouble. What the hell were Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee thinking when they signed on for this script?

I’ve only just finished this one, and it’s left me with that post-read tightly wound ball of intense, opposite emotions. That cold, churning feeling, as present in the pit of the stomach as it is in the mind, only great works of fiction leave you with.

In the end, there is no redemption for Chris Faulkner. The internal conflict of this young suit is unlikely to continue – he puts it best in the book’s final line of dialogue: There isn’t anything you can do anymore. There’s nothing you can do anymore to stop men like us!

The climax was a pure shot of adrenaline which eventually produced in me a feeling of sweet sickness very few novels have yet to produce.

This one succeeds on so many levels…

Truly a splendid novel. Paul J. McAuley is among the finest of worldbuilders alive today, and that’s not all. Fairyland is truly deserving of both major awards it received (and several it didn’t).

A truly disturbing look at a future where nanotechnology and gengineering reign supreme and neoliberalism has destroyed so many lives – a future that may, in hindsight, look disturbingly like our own.

Some of Keanu’s acting is so bad as to be almost MST3K-worthy. The goggles/gloves matrix sequences are splendid, however. Some plot elements are great, others are horrible. This is basically a partly hilarious film that nevertheless realises its cyberpunk setting but remains a bit of a grab-bag.

And where’s Molly?

I really enjoyed this, actually. It’s harrowing in the extreme, to be honest, although I think it’s safe to say I don’t ‘get’ Jean Rhys.