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Neal Asher – The Skinner - Review
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posted by alexmc6
on Wednesday March 21, @05:56AM
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Markus reviews The Skinner, the first book in the ‘Polity’ series (4 books so far) by Neal Asher, and finds it fast paced, captivating, fascinating, and, in classic Neal Asher vein, slightly gory and OTT. Good stuff, then… worth reading for the planet's ecosystem alone!
The book kicks off with Keech, Janer, and Erin arriving on Splatterjay, named after it’s most (in)famous founder/settler/criminal’s nickname (Jay ‘Splatterjay’ Hooper), although the name is also the defining characteristic for the planet’s rather unusual and violent biology.
The three protagonists are not your standard fare, either…
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Karen Traviss - City of Pearl - Review
REVIEW: "Knowledge Power: Intellectual Property, Information and Privacy", Renee Marlin-Bennett
Neal Stephenson - Zodiac - Review
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posted by alexmc6
on Thursday March 01, @05:01AM
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Markus reviews Zodiac, the 2nd novel by Neil Stephenson, and is enjoying it enormously:
Maybe not his most sophisticated writing, but definitely up there with the most entertaining books I’ve read. Like, ever. Belongs on top of your reading pile!
Sangamon Taylor (ST to his friends) is an activist with GEE, the Group of Environmental Extremists, in their Boston office. He is a wizard with a Zodiac (a u-shaped semi rigid inflatable dinghy, usually with a serious outboard motor, for those not familiar with such matters), and a self-professed professional pain in the arse. Especially to big Chemical Industry Corporations...
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Iain Banks - Canal Dreams - Review
Near-future Bio-Terror Thriller: Greg Bear - Quantico - Review
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posted by alexmc6
on Wednesday February 07, @05:53AM
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 Markus reviews Quantico, a near-future SF thriller on Bioterror, and the FBI special agents chasing the terrorists, by Greg Bear, and find it a captivating read - part thriller, part military/police, part hard/biological sf; all parts well executed.
Quantico is cop Valhalla. They say good cops go there when they die. Every day you solve crimes, make arrests, study hard, work out, do target practice, and at the end of the day you get together with your fellow agents in the boardroom, swig back some beers, and laugh. Hardly anybody gets hurt, nobody locks their doors, everyone knows the rules, and the bad guys always lose.
Just like real live, then…
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Book review: Computer Security - 20 Things Every Employee Should Know
Kazakh-based SF: Liz Williams - Nine Layers of Sky - Review
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posted by alexmc6
on Friday January 26, @08:19AM
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 Markus reviews Nine Layers of Sky, an SF story set in the former Soviet Union and permeated by Central Asian Myth by Liz Williams, and, despite of some gaps in the story and a 'clunky' ending, seems to be rather taken by it.
Modern (aka Post-Soviet-Union) times, in Almaty, Kazakhstan. Elena Irinova, a former Astrophysicist on the Soviet Space Programme, is eking out a living by working as an office cleaner, dreaming of old space-faring glories in the past, and of a new live in Moscow, or Canada, in the future. When a strange, spherical, black object comes into her possession [...]
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Victorian-era space pirate adventure: Philip Reeve's Larklight - Review
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posted by Markus
on Thursday January 18, @07:46AM
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Markus reviews Larklight, the first book in the series of the same name by Philip Reeve, and is loving it: "Charming, to say the least. And excellently executed, from the story, the Victorian references, the illustrations, through to the packaging and little extras!"
The story follows Art Mumby, 11, when he and his sister are displaced from their home orbiting the moon by giant white spiders, and hook up with an infamous space pirate, Jack Havock...
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Alan Cash - The Janus Effect - Review
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