{"id":347,"date":"2008-10-04T23:03:20","date_gmt":"2008-10-04T22:03:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/?p=347"},"modified":"2010-03-29T08:02:08","modified_gmt":"2010-03-29T07:02:08","slug":"gridlinked-neal-asher","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/2008\/10\/gridlinked-neal-asher\/","title":{"rendered":"Gridlinked (Neal Asher)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Sci-Fi, 7\/10 &#8211; September 2008<\/em><\/p>\n<table cellpadding=\"2\">\n<tr>\n<td>\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.tomfotherby.com\/Images\/BookReviewImages\/gridlinked.jpg?w=620&#038;ssl=1\" \/>\n<\/td>\n<td>\nWhat if you could have Google hardwired into your brain? Then you would be &#8220;gridlinked&#8221; like Special Agent Ian Cormac has been for thirty years &#8211; ten over the max. The book explores what it may be like to be unplugged after being fused with machines for so long. I found the slow re-gaining of humanity after being unplugged pretty interesting. This was my first Neal Asher book and I enjoyed it a lot. In no bad way, I found the atmosphere quite similar to Ian M Bank&#8217;s culture society, for example in both worlds, AI\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s run the universe &#8220;<em>and honestly, why would you trust any one else to?<\/em>&#8221;\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p>I liked the Terminators (a.k.a robot golems) but didn&#8217;t like the incomprehensible alien that called itself Dragon. It represented too random a subject in a world that seemed so organised. So did Ian Cormacs boss who was an immortal formed from the Hiroshima nuclear blast of the 2nd world war. I wasn&#8217;t satisfied with the ending of the book &#8211; I wanted more answers. Maybe a sequel will shine more light on the situation?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sci-Fi, 7\/10 &#8211; September 2008 What if you could have Google hardwired into your brain? Then you would be &#8220;gridlinked&#8221; like Special Agent Ian Cormac has been for thirty years &#8211; ten over the max. The book explores what it may be like to be unplugged after being fused with machines for so long. I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":52,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[18],"class_list":["post-347","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-review","tag-cyberpunk"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/52"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=347"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1577,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347\/revisions\/1577"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}