The synopsis on the back of the book is laughably misleading; this is a pointless book about chauvinism and violence. It's hardly even mil sf; it reads like a 12 year old boy playing with soldier toys. I'm totally fine with violence, but the stuff in this would be better off (and more entertaining) in a shlocky action movie.
Definitely not worth your time.
The one salvageable part of the story is the fine corporate intrigue that motivates the plot but is only actually handled for a page towards the end. I felt throughout that there were good ideas at the periphery of this story but they are completely steamrolled by all the painstakingly detailed combat and gore.
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vilmibm reviewed Systems by W. T. Quick
He is the master of information retrieval. A genius of finding out anything that anyone …
Review of 'Systems' on 'Goodreads'
1 star
vilmibm rated Wired to Death: 2 stars
vilmibm rated Cyberpunk handbook: 5 stars
vilmibm rated Trouble and her friends: 4 stars
Trouble and her friends by Melissa Scott
Gay cyberpunk, baby!
Idoru by William Gibson
From first page Berkley paperback September 1997:
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vilmibm reviewed Technogenesis by Syne Mitchell
Review of 'Technogenesis' on 'Goodreads'
4 stars
really quite delightful. a hidden gem.
vilmibm rated Mad honey symposium: 5 stars
Mad honey symposium by Sally Wen Mao
""Like Sylvia Plath's poems, these visionary poems are not only astute records of experience, they are themselves dazzling, verbal experiences. …
vilmibm rated Snow Crash: 3 stars
Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson
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vilmibm reviewed Weaving the Web by Tim Berners-Lee
The history and original design of the World Wide Web by its creator
Review of 'Weaving the Web' on 'Goodreads'
3 stars
an ok memoir but damn tim you have some bad ideas.
vilmibm rated Pink noises: 5 stars
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Voices from Chernobyl by Svetlana Aleksiévitch
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OCLC 85692734 LC Class Z666.5
Review of 'Glut' on 'Goodreads'
5 stars
read this goddamned book all of you
vilmibm reviewed Fools by Pat Cadigan
Review of 'Fools' on 'Goodreads'
3 stars
Pat Cadigan is a wonderful author but I'm not so into this one. the perspective switching is dizzying and mostly frustrating. some great concepts and characters though.