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vilmibm rated Synners: 4 stars

Pat Cadigan: Synners (2001, Four Walls Eight Windows)

Synners by Pat Cadigan

In Synners, the line between technology and humanity is hopelessly slim. A constant stream of new technology spawns crime before …

vilmibm rated Cyberpunk handbook: 5 stars

St. Jude.: Cyberpunk handbook (1995, Random House)

Cyberpunk handbook by St. Jude.

vilmibm rated What It Is Like to Go to War: 4 stars

Karl Marlantes: What It Is Like to Go to War (2011, Atlantic Monthly Press, Distributed by Publishers Group West)

What It Is Like to Go to War by Karl Marlantes

From the author of the New York Times bestseller Matterhorn, this is a powerful nonfiction book about the experience …

vilmibm reviewed MagicNet by John DeChancie

John DeChancie: MagicNet (1993, AvoNova)

Review of 'MagicNet' on 'Goodreads'

1 star

unrewarding garbage. avoid at all costs.

vilmibm rated Satan says: 4 stars

Sharon Olds: Satan says (1980, University of Pittsburgh Press, Feffer and Simons)

Satan says by Sharon Olds (Pitt poetry series)

vilmibm reviewed The hacker diaries by Dan Verton

Dan Verton: The hacker diaries (2002, McGraw-Hill/Osborne)

Review of 'The hacker diaries' on 'Goodreads'

3 stars

a bit sensational

vilmibm rated Speculative Relationships: 4 stars

vilmibm rated Idoru: 5 stars

William F. Gibson: Idoru (2003, Berkley Books)

Idoru by William F. Gibson

From first page Berkley paperback September 1997:

21st century Tokyo, after the millennial quake. Is something different here, in …

vilmibm rated Science and Society in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries: 5 stars

Science and Society in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries by Alan G. Smith

vilmibm reviewed Voyage along the horizon by Julián Marías

Review of 'Voyage along the horizon' on 'Goodreads'

4 stars

a bit hyperbolic / glosses over lovecraft's racism iirc / mostly full of wonderful lessons about life. taught me to reject the illusory "progress" of technological civilization. we're all just awful to each other all the time regardless of how technology evolves around us.