Jeffrey Thomas's novel
Deadstock sounds like an excellent evening-filler for those who enjoy hard-SciFi action:
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Punktown, crime-ridden metropolis on the colony world, Oasis, is home to the scum of countless alien races. Stalking its mean streets is Jeremy Stake, the private detective with chameleon-like abilities he does not want and cannot control. There's his wealthy client, Fukuda, whose company makes synthetic life forms as playthings for the rich. Then there's Fukuda's beautiful teenage daughter, whose priceless one-of-a-kind living doll has been stolen. And there is the doll itself, growing in size, intelligence, and resentment.
The destinies of all these individuals will converge, and collide, in Punktown.
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True, "Punktown" sounds a bit cheesy; but that's part of the allure, is it not?
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