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End of Year Final

Phases of Gravity by Dan Simmons

The Making of the President 1960 by Theodore White

The Peripheral by William Gibson

Stella Maris by Cormac Mccarthy

The Slap by Christos Tsiolkas

Why Orwell Matters by Christopher Hitchens

Liberation Day by George Saunders

My Family and Other Animals by Gerald Durrell

December 31, 2022 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

Phases of Gravity – 3/5 One of the very few “realistic” novels by Dan Simmons. Usually his novels are science fiction, horror, fantasy, or some combination of those. Sometimes his books are noir or suspense, and even though those books take place in the real world, it’s just not quite the same thing as realism. Don’t tell Raymond Chandler I said this.  This book was written in the late 1980s and our lead character Dan Baedecker is a retired astronaut who has also in recent […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Non-Fiction Tagged With: Christopher Hitchens, Christos tsiolkas, Cormac McCarthy, dan simmons, George Saunders, Gerald Durrell, Theodore White, william gibson

vel veeter's CBR14 Review No:701 · Genres: Fiction, Non-Fiction · Tags: Christopher Hitchens, Christos tsiolkas, Cormac McCarthy, dan simmons, George Saunders, Gerald Durrell, Theodore White, william gibson ·
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Zero History

Zero History by William Gibson

November 2, 2022 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

This is the third and final “Blue Ant” novel, which circulates around a few recurring characters like a musician turned brand specialist and a Dutch advertising entrepreneur. In this book, we focus on the world of wildcat clothing design, specifically underground denim design. A mysterious denim designer has been doing guerilla product drops in order to avoid the world of fashion and our business exec Hubertus Bigend puts Hollis (our musician) and a another older character Milgrim on the task of finding the designer. Milgrim […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: william gibson

vel veeter's CBR14 Review No:623 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: william gibson ·
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The greatest Alien movie never made.

Alien 3: The Unproduced Screenplay by William Gibson by Pat Cadigan

February 1, 2022 by TylerDFC Leave a Comment

Alien3 had a long, strange trip before it made it to screens in 1992, fully six years after the critical and box office smash Aliens made writer/director James Cameron a household name. During that time more than twenty scripts were considered at one time or another for the follow up. Before work began the only consideration was that series heroine Ellen Ripley, played perfectly by Sigourney Weaver, would be sitting this one out. Weaver had expressed fatigue with the series and did not think there […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Horror, Science Fiction Tagged With: alien, Alien 3, Alien 3: The Unproduced Screenplay by William Gibson, Ellen Ripley, Hicks, Newt, pat cadigan, william gibson, xenomorph

TylerDFC's CBR14 Review No:4 · Genres: Fiction, Horror, Science Fiction · Tags: alien, Alien 3, Alien 3: The Unproduced Screenplay by William Gibson, Ellen Ripley, Hicks, Newt, pat cadigan, william gibson, xenomorph ·
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Double Blind and Spook Country

Double Blind by Edward St Aubyn

Spook Country by William Gibson

January 25, 2022 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

Double Blind – 2/5 Sometimes I read a book and I wish I listened to the audiobook. Not that I always feel this way, but throughout this book I kept feeling I might give it a better shrift if I had listened to it. Reading it though, I felt my experience of it to be quite anemic and my reaction to the book was lukewarm at the best and slightly antagonistic at worse when it came to to ways in which St Aubyn handled some […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: Edward St Aubyn, william gibson

vel veeter's CBR14 Review No:35 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: Edward St Aubyn, william gibson ·
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Pattern Recognition

Pattern Recognition by William Gibson

January 21, 2022 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

I have read this novel four or five times now, and even taught it a few times. Each time I read it the scope of it dramatically shrinks for me. It happened this time as well. I first learned about this novel right when it came out and it was nominated for the Virginia Book Prize. And one of my professors, who is otherwise really buttoned-down and prim, knowing that Edward P Jones’s The Known World was going to win, decided she would champion this […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: william gibson

vel veeter's CBR14 Review No:28 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: william gibson ·
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A somehow really boring corporate espionage technology thriller

Agency by William Gibson

November 14, 2021 by CoffeeShopReader 1 Comment

I have attempted William Gibson before; I did not enjoy Neuromancer at all. But Agency is considerably more recent and the premise made more sense to me. Basically, Verity is an app developer/tester who is brought on to field test “Eunice” an AI assistant of sorts, but Verity realizes there’s a good bit more to Eunice than anyone seems to have guessed, and soon mysterious corporate shenanigans are afoot, and there is some involvement from parallel universes, one of which has the technology to keep […]

Filed Under: Science Fiction, Speculative Fiction Tagged With: #Science Fiction, Agency, artificial intelligence, multi-verse, peripheral 2, Speculative Fiction, william gibson

CoffeeShopReader's CBR13 Review No:91 · Genres: Science Fiction, Speculative Fiction · Tags: #Science Fiction, Agency, artificial intelligence, multi-verse, peripheral 2, Speculative Fiction, william gibson ·
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