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This is the best book of the trilogy; it is better than the first two books combined. (But it is not a stand-alone read, so if you haven't read the other books, start at the beginning with "The Cybernetic Walrus". Unless you've read the other two books, this won't make any sense.) The readers get almost everything they want: amazing world-building of some very remote chance universes, the connection of the characters explained, characters' real identities revealed, Cory finally showing some real guts, their actual location and program shown, and the truth about Matthew Brand and the aliens. Of course, those familiar with the work of Phillip K. Dick will have a chuckle at the end, and at the expense of a certain very pretentious character. All in all, a good finish for the Wonderland Gambit.


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HotWired Dodo The Wonderland Gambit No 3 Jack L Chalker 9780345388490 Books Reviews

This is fantastic stuff. I read through the whole series very quickly, always wanting to see what happened next. Chalker is a great storyteller, with excellent character development and retroactive exposition that will continue after you have finished the book, while you wonder just what the "real" reality is. BTW, I think "The Matrix" _did_ steal heavily from this series.
You will never see life the same after you read this book. Who knows, maybe everything WE know is wrong too!
Actually, Chalker manages to incorporate his favourite themes that stagnation leads to Hell, his fascination with how much power corrupts, and what some call an obsession with transformation. If nothing else, his "first world" in this book brilliantly analyses what would happen if women really did have power. David Brin did an equally good (albeit different) job, and few others have avoided the standard clichés. As a conclusion to his most paranoid trilogy, the book is brilliant, up to the last chapter. Fans of the late Phil Dick (of whom I am one) should recognise it as the last chapter of Dick's own book UBIK. This lack of originality nonetheless fits in with one of the most paranoid trilogies I have ever read.
I enjoyed the first two books of the trilogy. I found this last one a bit more fantastic than what had come before. It almost moved into Piers Anthony territory, but without the puns. Yes, we encounter "realities" (Everything you think you know is wrong) where not just politics and technological evolution are different, but the "human" species has evolved differently, too. Fun to play with these speculative worlds, but not as entrancing (for me) as the ones that more nearly paralleled _this_ world.
And yes, the reader finally gets the Holy Grail in this novel, but is it really anything more than just another cup? It doesn't matter, the quest was a lot of fun. We even got a bit of character development in the process. The worst thing about this book is how hard it is to get ahold of. It took me three months to track one down. If you're contemplating reading the trilogy (a worthwhile endeavor), then make certain you have a copy of this book in your hands before you begin!
This series is true genius. Read this and you will see where the Matrix folks got their ideas and framework and plot.....
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This is the best book of the trilogy; it is better than the first two books combined. (But it is not a stand-alone read, so if you haven't read the other books, start at the beginning with "The Cybernetic Walrus". Unless you've read the other two books, this won't make any sense.) The readers get almost everything they want amazing world-building of some very remote chance universes, the connection of the characters explained, characters' real identities revealed, Cory finally showing some real guts, their actual location and program shown, and the truth about Matthew Brand and the aliens. Of course, those familiar with the work of Phillip K. Dick will have a chuckle at the end, and at the expense of a certain very pretentious character. All in all, a good finish for the Wonderland Gambit.