Stephen Bury? I don't think so. No, it's our old chum Neal Stephenson together with some anonymous author that have put together this novel of political intrigue - which, I have to say, reads a bit like a cross between a John Grisham novel and the Illuminatus Trilogy at the moment. I'm not that far into it so I'll extend this review once I form a better opinion of the book.
Stay tuned, folks!

Much Later...

Well, I'm most of the way through the book now and I honestly think that this book is even better than the outstanding Snow Crash. The reasons? Well, although Snow Crash was an in-your-face, instant gratification mixed with top notch techie gear kind of a book, it didn't have the slow burn kind of feel to it that Interface has, nor did it contain so many believable characters. It has the same attention getting feel that Snow Crash was well endowed with, but this time with a more "grown-up" storyline (although I think anyone would be extremely hard-pushed to come up with a better notion than the "Language as a virus" theme posited by the earlier novel.

Conclusion: It's Monday and I'm already posting my conclusions, mainly because of the fact that I didn't go to sleep until about 2AM last night. When I originally said that the book read like a cross between John Grisham and the Illuminatus trilogy I was even more accurate than I thought, although the ending is also reminiscent of Tom Clancy's Debt of Honour ending, if that's not giving the game away too much. Anyway, I loved it. It was very funny, it was a great story (that would almost convert well to film provided that the powers that be don't screw around with it too much) and apart from falling apart ever so slightly towards the end (it gathers itself back up anyway), it was splendid.

Ben gives it:

Price: I can't really give you the price at the moment because I have a reviewer's copy from Bantam which doesn't have a UK price (the US price is $5.99)
Published by: Bantam in the States, not sure who in the UK

last updated: 12th October 1996