Snow Crash1 review Neal Stephenson Subterranean, 2008 Beautiful copy of an amazing piece of SciFi This is a replacement for my _extremely_ well worn softcover copy of this book that I've had for years and years. The signed/boxed edition is very nicely done and I'm very happy with it.             Idoru141 reviews William Gibson Berkley Trade, 2003 for jaded futurists in search of "that physical thing" + Virtual is Almost Real There is an odd surface tension here; some readers may approach Idoru from the wrong bias, through the lens of Neuromancer and the Sprawl trilogy. Those readers will expect the traditional cyberpunk romp of amphetamine-fueled Yakuza battles and twisted violent sex in coffin hotels; those readers ...             A Good Old-Fashioned Future14 reviews Bruce Sterling Spectra, 1999 The Quintessence of Sterlingism + Great place to start investigating this smart science fiction writer + Stellar collection of stories from cyberpunk's visionary + Excellent collection of cyberpunk stories             Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?209 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             Count Zero63 reviews William Gibson Ace Trade, 2006 Cyberpunk sweetness + My favorite cyberpunk novel + Not Free SF Reader + Great book, a little lacking in plot             Holy Fire (Bantam Spectra Book)37 reviews Bruce Sterling Spectra, 1997 Sterling's best novel -- "A+" + My favorite Sterling book + Like an Altman movie + Surprisingly Excellent             Mona Lisa Overdrive46 reviews William Gibson Spectra, 1989 SF NOIR...POETIC DREAMSCAPES OF A DISTOPIC FUTURE...(Part 3) + Best sprawl narrative. + Not Free SF Reader + Probably my favorite Gibson + Razor girl shines             The Diamond Age: Or, a Young Lady's Illustrated Primer (Bantam Spectra Book)332 reviews Neal Stephenson Spectra, 2000 A remarkable vision of the future, that doesn't quite become tangible + Dated and yet... still a good time. + Stephenson creates intriguing nano tech world The Diamond Age is an ambitious book, and one that kept me enthralled through about 350 of its 450 or so pages and then impatiently waiting for what turned out to be a highly improbable, fairly confusing, Hollywood style ending (where at all odds and in spite of massive casualties on all sides and ...             All Tomorrow's Parties130 reviews William Gibson Berkley, 2003 Oddly Interesting Story + "And what shall she do with Thursday's rags / When Monday comes around" A very odd story. There are shifts of location that sort of take you by surprise and then there are the trips through a computer land. Eventually you understand that this is a future world. It is an odd jumble of events that create the interest. At first there is the odd character, Laney, who ...             Halting State47 reviews Charles Stross Ace Hardcover, 2007 Simply awesome + A really pleasant surprise + Fun and Games best book about the coming future and what physical and digital systems will look like and how we will interact with them Read this book!!             Globalhead8 reviews Bruce Sterling Spectra, 1994 Third World Posse + Hits and Misses + An Intriguing Mix Of Sterling's Short Stories + A mixed bunch of stories             Accelerando84 reviews Charles Stross, 2005 Picking up the shattered pieces of my pre acceleration brain + A pretty amazing book. I believe Cory Doctorow said it best when he said something like 'makes hallucinogens obsolete' This book is brain meltingly lovely. Instead of being sci fi to inspire the dreams of yesterday (which seems to be so much of what's out there), Stross creates sci fi that is truly future speculative ...             Singularity Sky69 reviews Ace, 2007 Wonderful but probably not for everyone I personally was absolutely spellbound by this book. Wonderful creative ideas: A space-going civilization called "The Festival" that attacks by raining down telephones that, if you pick on up, will grant you your every wish if you only tell it a story... "The Eschaton", a sort-of god that evolved ...             Neuromancer449 reviews William Gibson Ace Hardcover, 2004 Case Meets the Matrix [T] + enjoyacble Neuromancer bends your thoughts and concepts with its theme of man integrating self with computerized Artificial Intelligence - what we commonly dub as AI. Written in a style reminiscent to James Cain, Micky Spillane, Dashiell Hammett and other authors of that 19th century mystery genre, the ...             Glasshouse43 reviews Ace, 2006 Incredible, even as a standalone + "In the Village" Sometimes I like to go into bookstores and buy a book at random without reading the description. I did that with Glasshouse, and I was very pleased. Apparently it's part of a series, but I read it as a standalone novel and understood everything. Stross is incredibly creative, and the book is ...             Burning Chrome67 reviews William Gibson Eos, 2003 worth it for "Hinterlands" alone + Solid, introductory selections + all wonderful but not all cyberpunk + Excellent collection of short stories + Not Free SF Reader             Toast6 reviews Charles Stross Cosmos, 2005 if you like Stross, a must read. + optimistic projections + A worthwhile collection from a promising new talent in science fiction. ANTIBODIES alone is worth the price of admission on this book. Significant for readinig Stross' getting up to speed work and some of these stories are classic SF in their own right.             We Can Build You20 reviews Philip K. Dick Vintage, 1994 a marvelous Dickian portrait of a man loosing touch + Much better than people say + A science-fictional Trojan horse Lots of people seem not to care for this book, which (along with Flow My Tears... Dr. Bloodmoney and Deus Irae) is one of my favorites, hands down. First of all- In this man's honest opinion, Phillip K. Dick is the ONE bona fide (as in Oh Brother- 'he's bona fide!') GENIUS of American letters, ...             Count Zero63 reviews William Gibson Ace Trade, 2006 Cyberpunk sweetness + My favorite cyberpunk novel + Not Free SF Reader + Great book, a little lacking in plot             Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?209 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