Oryx and Crake299 reviews Margaret Atwood Anchor, 2004 The end of the world as we know it? + Good 'til the last drop -- then not. + Atwood Evolves + Is This Our Future????             Islands in the Net15 reviews Bruce Sterling Ace, 1989 Incredibly underrated, though not for everyone + With respect to the other reviewers... This is one of the gutsiest SF novels I know of. Bruce Sterling has set his novel in one of the most incredibly detailed, well thought out futures ever developed. He's thought about his world geopolitically, economically, ideologically, and on a host of other levels, including how people live on a ...             Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence, Volume 1: After the Long Goodbye (Ghost in the Shell)11 reviews Masaki Yamada VIZ Media LLC, 2005 Souls, friends and dogs. + Thank you, Mr. Yamada + Don't miss this "quiet" release! + A Great Piece of Literature in its Own Right             White Light, Third Edition30 reviews Rudy Rucker Running Press, 2001 Brilliant Fun + countably good fun + Challenging and Surreal - Not for Everyone + Good early Rucker: sets, drugs, rock & roll + An Interesting and Unique Novel             Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?210 reviews Philip K. Dick Del Rey, 1996 Competing Future Religions, Animal Life Extinction, Android Pets & More + Valuing Fake Animals Above Fake Humans + Enjoyable if abstract vision of the future + Quality Read             Cyberweb3 reviews Lisa Mason Eos, 1998 Interesting...pretty cool actually... + DEEPER THAN DEEP Cyberweb is a pretty nifty cyberpunk novel...lots of interesting ideas...I liked it...there's a sequal to it too, but I can't remember its title...             Slapstick: Or Lonesome No More!72 reviews Kurt Vonnegut Dial Press Trade Paperback, 1999 AMAZING. + Is Slapstick over-rated? + A little less love, a little more decency + Classic Vonnegut.             Futureland33 reviews Walter Mosley Grand Central Publishing, 2002 Excellent...The Type of Scifi I want to read! + I like a little rage with my sci-fi + as always, interested Walter Moseley's "Futureland" was excellent. This is the type of scifi I want to read. I enjoy stories about how societies fall apart and implode. This is the only type of scifi that I enjoy. But according to the other reviewers here "Futureland" is not scifi because it deals with social ...             Deserted Cities of the Heart Bantam Books, 1989             Rim: A Novel of Virtual Reality10 reviews Alexander Besher Harpercollins (Mm), 1996 Thoroughly Engrossing, A Rare Find! I found this book in a used bookstore in Seattle, now I'm looking for Besher's other novels. An incredible story, with an East-West future angle, so many different elements: it's metaphysical, funny, a thriller, with far-out ideas I've never seen anywhere else before. What a writer!             Synners17 reviews Pat Cadigan Thunder's Mouth Press, 2001 excellent, highly complex, cyberpunk sci-fi + Free SF Reader + Universal themes in a sci-fi disguise Pat Cadigan's "Synners" - excellent, highly complex, cyberpunk sci-fi by an author I now very much want to read more of. Perspective switches between different characters in different narratives and I'm sure I missed a lot by only reading this in bits interspersed with a lot of other things. ...             The Long Orbit Mick Farren Del Rey, 1988             The Man Who Fell to Earth (Del Rey Impact)35 reviews Walter Tevis Del Rey, 1999 Brilliant, relevant...and very lonely + A Sci Fi classic that probably you've not read... + Responce This a deceptively simple story, told in simple, uncomplicated prose, but with unexpected depth and relevance. It might come off as slightly trite now, as with most mid-20th century fiction set in "the near future" (the late 1980s, of all things!), but I'm sure in 1963 it was truly a sign of the ...             Neuromancer451 reviews William Gibson Ace, 1984 Lives up to the hype + Still Good After All These Years Okay, now I understand what all the fuss is about. Gibson creates a vivd and engrossing world, entirely believable despite being so fantastic, and does so with a daring, sharp prose style that makes no apologies for bowling forward and leaving slow readers behind. He never holds you by the hand. ...             Ambient (Womack, Jack)7 reviews Jack Womack Grove Press, 1997 A Splendid Mix of Anthony Burgess and William Gibson + Circling the Drain + Like "Clockwork orange" with a cyberpunk feel. "Ambient" is William Gibson's cyberpunk vision cloaked in a future English quite akin to Burgess' in "A Clockwork Orange". Womack's daring, original prose is coupled with his stark, bleak vision of a future United States in which New York City has virtually succumbed to urban rot and environmental ...             Viriconium18 reviews M. John Harrison Spectra, 2005 A very distinctive cup of tea that's not for everyone + Mind-Bending and Challenging + Excellent and amazing writer, stories range from okay to superb The phrase 'a writer's writer' is often trite and overused. But this is the only accurate and concise description that can be applied to M. John Harrison and his work. You're here trying to decide if this book is worth your time and money, and so you'll read a mixture of reviews to make that ...             Light78 reviews M. John Harrison Spectra, 2007 Light + i would like to spoil the ending but The majority of the story appears complex as it unfolds, but blossoms into a beautifully written conjunction of the three main story arcs: three characters of different times and places, one the creator of the technology another relies upon, the other hopelessly intertwined with both. The ...             Mockingbird (Del Rey Impact)28 reviews Walter Tevis Del Rey, 1999 Don't Miss this Wonderful Book + A Terminator movie with less violence + It is not the tale but the telling + I wish Walter Tevis was still alive...             Shockwave Rider24 reviews John Brunner Del Rey Books I demand a reprint + Excellent, but it could have been more + Grand-daddy of all cyberpunk Little is to be added to the other reviews. This 28-year old book not only decribed the internet as it will become very soon long before its inception, but computer viruses (called "worms" by Brunner) before the first PC too, plus a few other things and issues not even mentioned yet. Since a ...             Hardwired19 reviews Walter Jon Williams Night Shade Books, 2006 A fun read... For me, different reasons than most... + This book kicks serious booty + An amazingly realized world... + Not Free SF Reader + Giving sf another chance