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William Gibson - The Peripheral
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(Review)
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Do I need to introduce William Gibson? Author of Neuromancer (and 12 novels since), winner of about everything which can be won in the field? Yes, he’s moved on from his Cyberpunk days, that’s perfectly ...
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Created on 28 December 2017
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William Gibson - Spook Country
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(Review)
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I don't think I need to introduce William Gibson here, no? The man who shot to fame with Neuromancer (book & trilogy), and has had many a great book (never mind award) to his name since then? Good. Spook ...
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Created on 28 November 2011
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Annalee Newitz - Autonomous
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(Review)
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... can and cannot be enforced. The book is dedicated to “the robots who question their programming”, which is interesting in itself, and has cover endorsements from both William Gibson and Neal Stephenson, ...
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Created on 12 January 2018
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Sydney Padua - The Thrilling Adventures of Lovelace and Babbage
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(Review)
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... (and of course of William Gibson and Bruce Sterling in their eponymous novel!), and it’s what Babbage’s work is generally referred to as, for better or worse. The book comes in the following structure: ...
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Created on 25 July 2017
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Olesya Turkina – Soviet Space Dogs
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(Review)
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... the veneration of Laika which Turkina shows strongly put me in the frame of mind of St Olga, from William Gibson's magnificently claustrophobic Hinterlands. The cover, depicting Belka and Strelka as Orthodox ...
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Created on 19 August 2016
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Bruce Sterling - Heavy Weather
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(Review)
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... to his name, including the proto-steampunk novel The Difference Engine, written with William Gibson. He also writes non-fiction.
Heavy Weather is a (maybe overly?) prophetic book, set in a near future ...
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Created on 12 May 2016
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Bruce Sterling - Mirrorshades
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(Review)
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... that I much prefer his fiction to his non-fiction.
After the introduction the book contains the following stories:
William Gibson – The Gernsback Continuum
This is, on the one hand, a classic. ...
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Created on 20 October 2013
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Tom Maddox - Halo
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(Review)
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Halo is the debut (and, so far, only) novel by Tom Maddox, writing partner of William Gibson and friend of Bruce Sterling (the book bears endorsements by both, which is what made me pick it up in the first ...
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Created on 15 May 2011
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Brian Herbert / Kevin J Anderson - Hunters of Dune
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(Review)
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... (thus providing a neat timeline from the last original Frank Herbert book), and come in small ‘story-bites’ from the various strands, a technique reminiscent of the way William Gibson wrote Neuromancer ...
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Created on 11 November 2010
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