In this novel Simmons faces the eighties dystopia nightmares, now usual for the Science Fiction fans. A science fiction novel with a soft retro taste, a plot painted with the classic shades of techno thriller. However, a great writer like Simmons could not stop to trace the footsteps of other greats...
Right now things aren't looking good for reading Simmons books again. I'd enjoyed The Terror a lot, I'm one of the few who rather liked Drood, and I was prepared to give him a pass on the Joe Kurtz books as I figured he was going for a stylistic aping of the pulps (replete with their of-the-time cas...
I'm not entirely sure what to make of this book. It's a lot of things; near-future dystopia, murder mystery, violent political thriller, tale of addiction and recovery and (partial) redemption. On most of these fronts it succeeds admirably. It starts slowly but builds up to become a gripping tale th...
America is broke, on the decline and hooked on Flashback, a drug that lets you relive past events. Nick is a former policeman, investigating the murder of the son of a highly placed Japanese leader in Los Angeles, and pining for his dead wife. Sobering look into what could be our future.
Nick Bottom, once a detective with the Denver Police Department, once a family man with a wife and young son and a beautiful little house set among greenery and mountain views, has been, for the last half decade, an addict. He, like 85 percent of the rest of the population of what's left of the Uni...
Flashback by Dan Simmons Note: apologies if this is a duplicate...it didn't seem to post the first time. If you, like me, have been watching the recent US government shutdown with a mixture of amusement, horror, and incredulity, you may have been wondering why on earth Congress decided to shut d...
The actual plot with the mystery is interesting. And if that were all this was I'd probably give it four stars.Unfortunately, that's not all it is. For a book that takes place roughly 20 years in the future there is a surprising mount of Obama bashing. Apparently Obama's entitlements bankrupted t...
This is one of those books where I enjoyed it but at the same time I think it fell short. I love the concept. The characters were great and the tale interesting but there is something I can't quite put my finger on that keeps me from giving it the fourth star.The concept of the nation addicted to ...
When reading other reviews for this book I knew that I must finish it because I just wanted to see what all the hype was about. What is it about this book that allows normally reasonable people to dissolve into calling the author names and resolutely refusing to overlook politics of a book that ult...
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