The guys at work tend to get together for LAN parties on occasion, so I figured I’d pick up some first-person shooter games and try my hand at it so I could join in. This is definately one of those games that, after a certain point, you just have to play with other people, otherwise […]
Sorry, movie-makers, I already read the Chris Priest novel with the similiar name, and it was way better. It even got written a year earlier, minus the silly sexual “game pod” imagery and with actual characters.
This is probably a far more effective recruiting video than anything they’ve got out there now. Enjoy.
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Man, I wanted to love this book. Really, really wanted to love this book. I hadn’t read any of Buckell’s stuff before, but I’d heard about it; it sounded like a great concept: space opera with a cast of characters with Caribbean heritage. I mean, dreadlocks and big guns and ships with awesome names like
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You can now pick up a cheap copy of Daniel Abraham’s A Shadow in Summer on bookstore shelves. I did not lust after this book with ravenous passion of a bel dame, but I did enjoy much of what he did with it. My review/rant is here. Please support Series Fantasy That Doesn’t Suck.
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As I’ve been reading a recent SF title, it’s gotten me to think about what it is that makes fiction really great for me. Some of this I covered before when reviewing some of VanderMeer’s work, and the same issue is hitting me again with this book, only in the opposite way. See, so
pg 105 “All ten of us were women, Jamar. We gave up our wombs and in return were fitted with quantum computers running intrusion devices that can overpower lamina and make it extensions of our minds. It would be like being one with your ship, but anywhere. Your mind replicates, copying itself endlessly until you