Press Enter

The book was part of a collection I have been replacing. It's hard to find, especially in a good condition.As such I was extremely pleased to receive it in the perfect condition it arrived in.Just as described completely.Received it in record time, also. Thanks so much for providing exactly what you advertised.

loved the book and you need to reduce the number of words that people have to write or they won't keep reviewing your products

I have borrowed this book from the library for years, and now I have my own copy. The technology may have changed since this book was written, but the interplay of the characters is still great.

Press Enter must be one of the scariest stories I've ever read. John Varley is a marvellous writer. I'd argue that this novella was one of the best things that he's done - actually arguably one of the best short pieces that anyone has done. Great characters and, like the best hard scifi, prophetic.Do you like great characterization? Do you like hard sify? Do you like clean, fit writing? Here you go!

Prophetic.

Nothing is ever explained. No one is the wiser on what happened and the MC makes dumb decisions that makes no sense other than for plot reasons, multiple times. Dont waste the time it takes to read or listen to this book. Characters were decent, but the story was idiotic.

IF YOU WISH TO KNOW MORE PRESS ENTER 'Victor Apfel, a lonely middle-aged veteran of the Korean War, gets a recorded phone call asking him to come to his reclusive neighbor's house to take care of what he finds there. The voice promises that he'll be rewarded. Victor would like to ignore the message, but he gets another call every 10 minutes. When Victor arrives at Charles Kluge's house, he finds Kluge dead and slumped over his computer keyboard, so he calls another neighbor -- a computer operator named Hal (har, har) -- and the cops. When the computer screen asks them to PRESS ENTER, they do, and this initiates Kluge's strange interactive suicide note. Things get weirder when Victor finds a large deposit in his bank account and the cops find no record anywhere of Charles Kluge. Even the IRS didn't know about him.The police investigator doesn't think it's a suicide, so they hire a Vietnamese computer programmer named Lisa Foo to figure out what Kluge was up to. When she drives up in her silver Ferrari, she brings a little joy to Victor's lonely existence. As the two of them get to know each other, both start to deal with troublesome issues such as Victor's serious medical condition and the horrors of the wars they've lived through and the racism those experiences engendered. (The focus on the geo-politics of Southeast Asia during the middle 20th century is a refreshing change from the Western focus of most science fiction.)Press Enter, which won the Hugo, Nebula, and Locus Awards for Best Novella in 1985, works on so many levels -- it's a romance, murder mystery, psychological drama, and horror story. It's exciting, moving, and scary. Though Press Enter is set in the early 1980s, it feels nostalgic rather than dated. Discussions comparing and contrasting the computer to the human brain feel current, as does Lisa's understanding that her skill with computer programming gives her power over others -- power that could corrupt her.I read Audible Frontier's version of Press Enter which is 3 hours long and is narrated by Peter Ganim, who does a nice job, as usual. Press Enter is going to stay with me, and not just because I have a son who's about to leave for college to study computer programming (shudder). I was enthralled from the first sentence to the last.

A massive award winner that is too dated and uninteresting. Written in the early 1980s, the book has to explain what a cursor is. It worries about artificial intelligence and the possibility of a system that is basically what the internet turned out to be. I just never cared, especially about the 50-year-old hero who gets to have repeated sexual bouts with a 25-year-old, huge-breasted Vietnamese woman. Bechdel test: Fail. Grade: C+