Admittedly, though he is often lauded as one of America's finest science fiction novelists, Ubik is the only Philip k. Dick work I have ever read. Being more familiar with the man than his writing, thanks to biographies and movies, I spent more time than usual giving my attention to Dick's peculiar, almost psychotic descriptiveness. When ( Read more... )

Copyright 1994, 663 pages, Signet Publishing ISBN 978-0-451-18496-2 ( Read more... )

By Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman - 383 pages, 1990 ( Read more... )

By William Gibson
480 pages 2007

For as much as my review of Pattern Recognition was tainted by general disapproval of Gibson apparently abandoning the cyber punk genre altogether, I couldn't help but be retroactively sorry for panning it as hard as I did. It seems Pattern Recognition was intended to kick off a new world for Gibson's playthings - The ( Read more... )

Neuromancer Review, by William Gibson - Copyright 1984 271 pages

Gibson was not the first author to tackle distopia-based cyber futures, but he rewrote the framework by which all future artists of the cyberpunk genre would be bound.
Case, a burned out hacker in the geographically ambiguous flesh-and-blood sprawl, receives an offer he literally ( Read more... )

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