A potentially cool idea that Stross just doesn't pull off. The incompetent shrew club muscling in on the old boys club was also pretty tiresome. Especially since it was the basis of much of the underlying plot. And Mo may be smart but she's about as useless as Kira, the love interest from Hard to be...
As we pass the halfway mark of the year, we find the first of the new 'best of' anthologies flooding the market. Currently I have 4 monster tomes that I've been reading through, jumping around between favorite authors and intriguing titles. I'm not one to read an anthology from cover-to-cover, but I...
What if solving really complicated math problems actually opened portals to other universes. Or summoned things from them to here? And considering the calculation powers of computers, what if that put all the lovecraftian horrors of the multiverse just a few lines of code away? What if indeed. Ob...
Atrocity Archives: Laundry Files Series, Book 1 by Charles Stross Add a few dungeon dimension critters, a bit of Hitler on the moon, and (worst of all) an acre of bureaucratic red tape to this comic and you've got the Atrocity Archives.If you dabble in computer science, you probably already know tha...
A disturbing, near future dystopian vision of Britain that is frighteningly plausible. Besides the central premise, there are many other extrapolations arising from society as we know it to construct something that, taken as a whole, paints quite a worrying picture of our future. There are several p...
I gave up reading Ken MacLeod after three books in a row banging on in strident fashion about revolutionary left wing politics.I was given this one after a 5 or so year gap and was a little trepiditious about it. It turns out, however that this book has no such theme. It's a first contact novel, whe...
Disturbing look at how the nanny state could take over all aspects of life in the future.Concerns a mother who is having second thoughts about taking 'the fix' which is a genetic cure all pill for an unborn child. Set a few years hence, Macleod covers the possibilities of surveillance in the home, m...
I have a hard time rating this book. I found the narrative generally slow and a bit boring. It didn't keep my interest for more than a page or two at a time.That said, the ideas that the book deals with are well illustrated and engaging. I don't know if the slow, often boring plot was a necessary...
The stories were ok, non particularly memorable, except for the one I'd read before about the Neanderthals and another one about a pipeline in Nigeria (hmm, maybe that's why they were first and last)
I keep reading and reasonably enjoying Ken MacLeod's books, and i'm not entirely sure why. This one starts out with a really intriguing social-sf question - should a woman have to take a simple pill, with no side effects, to make sure her unborn child is healthy - and degenerates into (totally unrel...
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