The Diamond Age: Or, a Young Lady's Illustrated Primer (Bantam Spectra Book)333 reviews Neal Stephenson Spectra, 2000 Brilliant + Dated and yet... still a good time. Absolutely one of the best science fiction novels I have ever read. Mind blowing in its scope and vision. It's images and idea will stay with you long after you read the last page. I only wish Neal Stephenson would continue to explore the world created in The Diamond Age.             Cryptonomicon834 reviews Neal Stephenson Avon, 2002 Nerds of the world, rejoice! Stephenson pens a zinger + Fantastic. Stephenson's best. + Count me as a fan + NOT WAR AND PEACE BUT...... + Cryptonomicon             Broken Angels82 reviews Richard K. Morgan Del Rey, 2004 A great followup to Morgan's Altered Carbon debut! + Good book + Broken Angels by Richard K. Morgan: A Review + Reminiscent of Gibson's sprawl series. + Not Free SF Reader             Starfish (Rifters Trilogy)37 reviews Peter Watts Tor Books, 2008 First-rate science fiction novel, definitely among the best I have ever read + Free SF Reader + Best writer I've read this year + Great Hard Science Fiction + Science fiction with good characters             Already Dead: A Novel55 reviews Charlie Huston Del Rey, 2005 Vampire tales for a nihilistic world + Good book, but I need a break Great book. Joe Pitt is a fantastic character. The writing is first rate. The plot moves along nicely. My only complaint (and its not big enough to knock the book off the five star rating) is that it is too short! Still, the author seems to put out sequels on such a regular basis that it ...             One Shot (Jack Reacher, No. 9)128 reviews Lee Child Dell, 2006 Another Reacher thriller! + SEXY, THRILLING, SEXY, THRILLING, SEXY, THRILLING + One Shot + Really Good + Very Good!             The Shotgun Rule: A Novel24 reviews Charlie Huston Ballantine Books, 2007 Brilliant! + Do you really have to see it - to call it? First, I must say Charlie Huston is one of the most provocative, creating, and brilliant and thought provoking authors of our time. He doesn't scare away from difficult topics like racism, drugs, alcoholism, violence, sexual abuse and parental relationships. The latest Huston novel examines the ...             Blindsight69 reviews Peter Watts Tor Books, 2008 Indescribably delicious. + amazing riff on modern cognitive neurobiology In a scientifically chuthuloid universe, "The Speed of Dark" and "I Am Legend" meet "Spider Monsters from Mars" over drawn philosophical debates about the merits of consciousness. The mind boggles. If that first sentence made sense to you, you're better prepared to read this book than I was. It ...             COLDHEART CANYON Clive Barker HARPER AUDIO, 2001             Detour: A Novel25 reviews James Siegel Grand Central Publishing, 2005 Great Read! Fast Paced and Action Packed! + Awesome edge of your seat action packed!!! + A thrill of a ride... This is the second book I have read by Siegel. The first being "Derailed" (much better book than a movie by the way). I really enjoyed the author's style while reading that book. It had action, it was interesting, not full of boring details. And each chapter left you hanging and craving more. ...             No Dominion: A Novel25 reviews Charlie Huston Del Rey, 2006 Smart, sharp and gritty fun. + vampyre fan!! + Gritty and great! + The new drug in town + Wow...             Sharp Teeth29 reviews Toby Barlow Harper, 2008 Very effective use of free verse form + Fun, imaginative, well-written The storyline alone would have made this book a nice "politics in werewolf-packs roaming modern LA" novel. I bought it based on back cover comments waiting for a connecting train, and did not realise it would be in verse (I might not have bought it if I had known, to my loss) The choice of free ...             Altered Carbon208 reviews Richard K. Morgan Subterranean, 2008 Spectacularly good SF + Impressive first novel + Sci fi noir at its best + futuristic Chandler             Snow Crash (Bantam Spectra Book)545 reviews Neal Stephenson Spectra, 2000 SNOW CRASH by Neal Stephenson + A Really Fun Cyberpunk Novel + I think I enjoyed it Snow Crash is a cyberpunk science fiction novel by Neal Stephenson, originally published in 1992. It involves virtual reality and computer science, religion (particularly ancient Mesopotamian religions, Sumerian in particular), linguistics, and philosophy. Stephenson writes in the present tense, ...             Derailed174 reviews James Siegel Grand Central Publishing, 2004 flawless + Very good thriller + What tension! I was engaged from page one. This is one of the best books I've read in a long time. It's intelligent, well thought-out, action-packed! I love Siegel's fresh edgy voice. Often while reading, I said to myself WOW! This guy is great! And yes, some of the action...was ...             Deceit28 reviews James Siegel Grand Central Publishing, 2006 Falls apart in the middle....too complicated I really enjoyed James Siegel's last two books (didn't read "Epitath") But this one makes the same mistake as another book I just read, "Gone Baby Gone." It gets needlessly complicated and then the ending is much less than the sum of all the parts. "Deceit" starts off very promising: fallen ...             Woken Furies: A Takeshi Kovacs Novel57 reviews Richard K. Morgan Del Rey, 2007 Unfortunatly... + A well developed universe for exploring practical immortality from a mercenary point of view + Excellent + A very satisfying finish to the Takeshi Kovacs trilogy :)             Perdido Street Station264 reviews Ballantine Books, 2003 Not your typical fantasy (Thank God!) + Rewarding fantasy world for those who have the patience + Thick, Unsavory and Wonderful For the past 30 years or so, the fantasy genre has, with the exception of a few great works from a few great authors, mired itself in a situation where it has become unimaginative and unoriginal where works have become practically clones of each other. In recent years though, a few inspired souls ...             Maelstrom (Rifters Trilogy)9 reviews Peter Watts Tor Books, 2001 Fantastic sequel to _Starfish_ + Free SF Reader + Everything that Wm Gibson was supposed to be.... + An Intriguing Novel from One of Canada's New SF Writers             Behemoth: Seppuku7 reviews Peter Watts Tor Books, 2005 Satisfying conclusion to a fascinating series + Satisfying ending to an intriguing series + Behemoth First off, for those of you haven't already read "Behemoth: B-Max" (at least) you will definitely want to do so before tackling "Behemoth: Seppuku". For reasons that the author explains in the first volume, they constitute one book that was split into two due to pressures in the publishing issue. ...