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Hailed by Bruce Sterling as a “political activist, gizmo freak, junk collector, programmer, entrepreneur, and …
It's okay, but some of it seems a little obvious from the 2010 vantage point -- this can be seen as a measure of its success, of course.
A feel good, thrill a minute ride that will leave you breathless and wanting more!
Or an idea of what Hollywood is like, and how it tries to sort out good ideas from bad ones. It's funny.
The interesting thing is that Bendis is a damn good writer who has gone on to do some really amazing work since, and you could argue that Spiderman wouldn't have happened without Bendis's Ultimate Spiderman work. So in a way, he has made a big budget movie, and comic book movies are now "credible" in a way that they weren't at the time this was written.
"The year is 2021, and the human race is - quite literally - coming to …
Surprisingly, the movie is better than the book.
Trotter's book stands equally alongside the works of Julia Child and James Beard. -- Library Journal Cooking a gourmet dinner …
In this pathbreaking work, Edward S. Herman and Noam Chomsky show that, contrary to the usual image of the news …
From small dinner parties to big-time shindigs, Entertaining For Dummies shows you how to impress and pamper your guests no …
Eeesh. It's rather embarrassing to even admit having read this. But I feel better, because at least I'm not in the position of having written this book. Having to read about Bronson's bald fantasies about being a writer and sleeping four hours a day so he could write more... I am in awe at the object lesson that Bronson provides. He has become a writer and fulfilled his dream, but only so he can write about himself. The people he writes about are backdrop, filler, to the quest that Bronson provides for himself. And it's also obvious that the people who Bronson writes about are those most like himself. All in all, a fairly nauseating experience.
One of Mars's most elite warriors, Dreams-of-War, must travel to Earth. where she has been …
I had a hard time reading this book. It's one of the few science fiction books where I couldn't hold my suspension of disbelief.
Forget the haunt-tech bringing the spirits of the underworld back to life to serve in machinery. I'll buy that, I'll buy a time travelling 9 year old, I'll buy that all the males are dead and that people on Mars believe that they colonized Earth rather than vice versa.
But. This is a civilization which can jump from Pluto to Earth, and they don't have ubiquitous e-mail. Or cellphones. Or anything resembling a police force that would like to notice these interesting characters running around with guns. Not are there barely any characters surrounding the protagonists, there's barely a sense that the world reacts to their presence. It's a backdrop.
And looking at it more closely: what in this story had any science behind it, or …
I had a hard time reading this book. It's one of the few science fiction books where I couldn't hold my suspension of disbelief.
Forget the haunt-tech bringing the spirits of the underworld back to life to serve in machinery. I'll buy that, I'll buy a time travelling 9 year old, I'll buy that all the males are dead and that people on Mars believe that they colonized Earth rather than vice versa.
But. This is a civilization which can jump from Pluto to Earth, and they don't have ubiquitous e-mail. Or cellphones. Or anything resembling a police force that would like to notice these interesting characters running around with guns. Not are there barely any characters surrounding the protagonists, there's barely a sense that the world reacts to their presence. It's a backdrop.
And looking at it more closely: what in this story had any science behind it, or any kind of scientific thinking? You could transplant this story very effectively into a Lord of the Rings type setting and be none the wiser -- the ghosts would still be ghosts, the one dimensional warriors would still be one dimensional warriors, and the kind nursemaids, the plucky young girl with mystical powers and the evil monsters would all be exactly intact. And it would be more believable.
Anyway. The plot is forgettable, the characters hackneyed, and the world ridiculous. Apart from that, it's great.
A collection of stories and poems about faeries in all parts of the world by a variety of authors.
My godfather's book. :-)
Lifechanging. Those funny monkeys!
A story about colonists on an alien world, and the psychological effects thereof.
I don't know what it is, but the more John Brunner I read, the less I'm impressed. The writing is just so... 1950s. The characters are cardboard cutouts, the plot is derivative, and the payoff is contrived.
It's not awful. But it's not The Shockwave Rider or Stand on Zanzibar by a long shot.
