The Diamond Age (Neal Stephenson)
Sci-fi, 7/10 – January 2009 I suffer from hayfever and it often turns beautiful summer days toxic because of the little flakes of pollen that float through the air like poison. The big theme of this book is nano-technology and I love how the book describes the impact both big and small to humans. The [...]
Gridlinked (Neal Asher)
Sci-Fi, 7/10 – September 2008 What if you could have Google hardwired into your brain? Then you would be “gridlinked” like Special Agent Ian Cormac has been for thirty years – ten over the max. The book explores what it may be like to be unplugged after being fused with machines for so long. I [...]
Interface (Neal Stephenson)
Sci-Fi, 7/10 – Apr/May 2008 I didn’t know anything about US politics until I read this book. I’m not much interested in politics let alone US politics but the book did an excellent job of hiding any potential boringness in character descriptions, a fast plot and a single super interesting sci-fi concept which any cyberpunk [...]
Snow Crash (Neal Stephenson)
Sci-fi, 8/10 – June&July&August 2006 What makes this book great is that despite it being interesting and exciting and thoughtful, is that it’s damn silly. All the characters are ridiculous and over-the-top, and that’s great. Two small examples are the nuclear powered machine gun and the cyborg guard-dogs but the biggest laugh is the method [...]
All Tomorrow’s Parties (William Gibson)
Sci-fi, 3/10 – January 2006 This novel wraps up the strand taken from Virtual Light through Idoru (the bridge series). I was disappointed because it lacked action and there isn’t much actually that happens overall, as a story. It follows the same Gibson format in that people are caught up in a technological/social paradigm shift [...]
Idoru (William Gibson)
Sci-fi, 6/10 – December 2005 It’s supposed to be the 2nd book in the bridge series but it’s pretty self contained. It’s about a rock-star celebrity wanting to marry a sort of computer-generated personality called an Idoru. It is not confirmed whether the Idoru is truly AI but she lives in the net more than [...]
Mona Lisa Overdrive (William Gibson)
Cyberpunk, 9/10 – Jan/Feb 2005 This is nothing to do with the Mona Lisa painting, it is the 3rd and final part of the “sprawl trilogy” and there’s a chick called “Mona Lisa” who bumbles about in almost ignorance. It doesn’t exactly tie all the threads up and man the Matrix is getting weird but [...]
Neuromancer (William Gibson)
Cyberpunk, 9/10 – Spring 2004 Wow, I’d never read anything like this before. The language and slang is heavy going but once I got to grips with it I began to love it. I like tech stuff and this kind of literature is just what I’ve been looking for. A great amount of imagination is [...]
