Good, but not extraordinary SF story taking singularity/nanotech concepts into the future. The plot seemed muddied by its own cleverness, and I couldn’t help but be distracted by the large number of typos throughout this edition.
(This quick review is part of my September 2005 “clearing the decks” exercise.)
Oh dear, oh dear.
(This quick review is part of my September 2005 “clearing the decks” exercise.)
Meh. Just not good enough.
(This quick review is part of my September 2005 “clearing the decks” exercise.)
Endearing, but not especially magical.
(This quick review is part of my September 2005 “clearing the decks” exercise.)
Great fun–totally implausible, but a total romp, with a cast charming enough to make you swallow it all.
(This quick review is part of my September 2005 “clearing the decks” exercise.)
(This quick review is part of my September 2005 “clearing the decks” exercise.)
(This quick review is part of my September 2005 “clearing the decks” exercise.)
(This quick review is part of my September 2005 “clearing the decks” exercise.)
First of the Jack Parlabane novels. Brookmyre is still finding his feet with this one: the opening scene is one of the funniest I have ever read, but later parts of the book drag a bit, and the computer hacking sequence didn’t work for me at all. Still, a good satirical comedy thriller, and a great introduction to the characters of the series.
(This quick review is part of my September 2005 “clearing the decks” exercise.)
It doesn’t scale the emotional heights of L.A. Requiem, and it doesn’t have the same cocky swagger of the early Elvis Cole books, but The Forgotten Man is still a fine detective novel. An unidentified man is shot dead in an alleyway, and with his dying words he claims he was looking for his son Elvis Cole. Elvis never knew his father, and he finds himself drawn to the case like a moth to a flame. But he is not the only one…