Mindplayers
Pat Cadigan
1987 Bantam Spectra
C
This cyberpunk novel of the future is a bit slow in most places and just kind
of drifts from one scene to another, without any real plot.  Most of the
scenes feel like dreams; I guess the author didn't know enough about real
technology to even begin to try to make the stories realistic.  So, it's
all a bunch of dreams, wandering around aimlessly.  It reminded me of the 
movie eXistenZ, which was similarly hokey.  In the afterword of the book, it
is revealed this is really four short stories patched together with a little
glue; this explains the absence of plot but does not excuse it.