Interface (novel)

Interface
First edition cover
credited to Stephen Bury
AuthorNeal Stephenson and George Jewsbury
Cover artistBruce Jensen
LanguageEnglish
GenreScience fiction
PublisherBantam
Publication date
1 April 1994
Publication placeUnited States
Media typePrint (Paperback)
ISBN0-553-37230-0 (first edition, paperback)
OCLC28148075
813/.54 20
LC ClassPS3552.U788 I58 1994

Interface is a 1994 novel by Neal Stephenson and J. Frederick George (a pseudonym of George Jewsbury) and originally published under the joint pseudonym Stephen Bury. Reprints of the novel have credited the work to Stephenson and George.[1] It is a thriller, set in the then-future year of 1996 when a shadowy coalition bent on controlling the world economy attempts to manipulate a candidate for president of the United States through the use of a computer biochip brain implant. It was described by writer Cory Doctorow in 2007 as an "underappreciated masterpiece".[2]

Story

Illinois governor William Cozzano suffers a stroke. Meanwhile, in a separate subplot, African-American Eleanor Richmond, unemployed and living in a trailer park, discovers that her husband has committed suicide in their repossessed former home. An underground business coalition called the Network arranges for Cozzano to have a biochip implanted and for him to run for President of the United States. The Network is made up of a number of large fictional companies, with parallels in real business entities.

Richmond, after verbally humiliating a local racist cable TV Public-access television talk show personality who was running for Senate, has since found herself working in the offices of a Republican Colorado senator. After an event where she accused the citizens of Colorado of being welfare queens, she finds herself in the public eye as a candidate for Cozzano's running mate.

The Network's ability to perceive public opinion, skewed on the night of the vice presidential debate by a twist of fate, makes them select Richmond as vice presidential candidate. Their canny act of public relations work enables Cozzano to save his Presidential campaign. President-elect Cozzano is shot at his inauguration by a psychotic former factory worker who has learned of almost the entirety of the Network's plans. He dies almost instantly. Richmond becomes the first black and the first female President of the United States.

Characters

  • Eleanor Richmond, unemployed, protagonist
  • William Cozzano, governor of Illinois
  • Mary Catherine Cozzano, his daughter and a neurologist
  • Cy Ogle, campaign manager
  • Dr. Radhakrishnan, neurosurgeon

References

  1. ^ Stephenson, Neal; George, J. Frederick (2005) [1994]. Interface. Bantam Spectra. ISBN 9780553383430.
  2. ^ Cory Doctorow (December 10, 2007). "Interface: Neal Stephenson's underappreciated masterpiece". BoingBoing.net.

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