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 rated Metrophage: 3 stars
Hammered by Elizabeth Bear (Bantam Spectra science fiction)
Once Jenny Casey was somebody's daughter. Once she was somebody's enemy. Now the former Canadian special forces warrior lives on …
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 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.
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 Voices from Chernobyl: 5 stars
Voices from Chernobyl by Svetlana Aleksiévitch
Consecuencias sobre las personas que les tocó vivir una nueva realidad que todavía existe pero que aún no se ha …
vilmibm rated Cybernetic revolutionaries: 5 stars
vilmibm rated Cyberpunk handbook: 5 stars
vilmibm rated Satan says: 4 stars
Satan says by Sharon Olds (Pitt poetry series)
vilmibm rated Trouble and her friends: 4 stars
Trouble and her friends by Melissa Scott
Gay cyberpunk, baby!