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Hol
Hol rated it 5 years ago
I still dream was a very good speculative sci-fi and has confirmed my love of James Smythe (as if I needed it) even more. When the book opens we meet Laura when she’s a teenager. She’s destroying the latest phone bill to have hit the mat before her mother and step-father discover it. The reason sh...
Yzabel
Yzabel rated it 7 years ago
[I received a copy of this book from NetGalley.]Although I didn’t adore this book, I found it to be an interesting take on artificial intelligence; on what contributes to developing an AI; on the trials and errors involved, and on how the best intentions can be tainted by poor execution, like what h...
bookaneer
bookaneer rated it 8 years ago
I'll admit I was a bit wary when I picked up Djinn Falls In Love: tempted by authors such as K.J. Parker and Claire North, I worried that the collection itself might suffer from repetition. I needn't have worried. The collection demonstrates a truly staggering variety of perspectives on the concept ...
Dor Does Books
Dor Does Books rated it 10 years ago
As those of us who have nothing better to do than stalk me know, I really like James Smythe's books. When this first cropped up on my radar, for some reason I thought it was YA, which it isn't, so I wasn't really on the look-out for it. Happily, I have a rather fabulous local library who have a knac...
Hol
Hol rated it 10 years ago
This book had a fantastic premise and as soon as I read the synopsis, I couldn’t wait to start it. Set in a future where everyone uses a programme called ClearVista that can predict, with unparalleled accuracy, the probability of an event happening, our protagonist, Lawrence Walker, uses it to pre...
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