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Private Universe — Seth Rain
And so we finally come to the end of this rather enjoyable series.
It’s been pretty much full gas all the way and all the way through you really don’t get much of an idea who is on whose side and what their actual agendas really are until they suddenly reveal themselves and off we go again in a completely new direction. It’s certainly been an interesting roller coaster ride.
And what a lovely ending, Seth isn’t afraid to kill lots of people that we like along with the ones we don’t: which we always like, don’t we?
I’m certainly looking forward to reading more from Seth in the future. 10 out of 10.
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Android State — Seth Rain
We begin immediately after the events of Messiah Online with Cardinal, having declared the UK an android state, telling all humans to leave the country or die.
Our protagonists, Blake (The Postman) and Lola, are determined to stop him, but how? Has Cardinal become too powerful?
Once again, super good stuff and it’ll keep you reading until the end and, like me, you’ll go jumping straight into the last book in the tetralogy, Private Universe.
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Messiah Online — Seth Rain
And so we continue where we left of with Spectrum Worlds, the pacing doesn’t slow down at all and The Postman still has no idea who to trust and, even as a reader with my god like view of things, i still have no idea who is being honest and what their real agendas are in these books: which is what makes them so good. Eventually things will come out in the wash and we’ll find out who is really pulling whose strings.
If you enjoyed the first book, you’ll enjoy this just as much.
But, between this and the last book in the series, there’s the penultimate book, Android State, which begins with all humans being told that they’ve got about 3 weeks to all get out of the United Kingdom or they’ll be killed on sight: should be fun.
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Spectrum Worlds — Seth Rain
The first book in The Cyberpunk Uploads series.
Having just been put through the ultimate in tedious and pointless interruptions to story flow and action scenes when i read The Heartstrikers series, to sit and read this book was an absolute pleasure. Yes folks, if you really like a high paced, non-stop, story line then this just might be what you’re looking for.
On top of the fast flowing story it’s also a rather good story. We essentially have a battle royale going between three groups: androids who hate humans and want to eradicate and/or enslave them, humans who want to do the same to androids, and then there’s the odd-ball androids and humans out in left field who think we can all live peacefully and happily together ever after. Centre it all in the London of the future, known as Lundun, and shove our main protagonist, The Postman, right in the middle of all this is.
The most astute reader will get to realise by the end of the book that there really isn’t anyone The Postman can trust, android or human, everyone seems to have agendas and secrets and i’m really looking forward to learning more in the next book, Messiah Online, which i dove straight into without any hesitation.
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The Memory Hacker — JT Lawrence
This is just way too overdone for me with too many holes in it.
By far, the worse of the 4 stories in 2054.
Nuff said, move along, nothing to see here.
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Deep Ocean Blues — Yudhanjaya Wijeratne
An interesting little novella based in a deep ocean thorium mine with a human, an AI and a bunch of OctoPods as workers: OctoPods are cyborg octopuses in case you were wondering.
It mostly explores the same theme as Blade Runner, as in, what is it to be me.
I am left thinking that there’s at least a full length novel in this deep underwater world and the onshore world that supports it and squabbles over the rights. There’s certainly a lot of interesting space for a novel or three to explore and fill.
Available in 2054 and also to read for free at Yudhanjaya’s website.
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Hedon — Jason Werbeloff
If dystopia is your thing then this is right up your alley. It’s dirty, violent, extremely sexually graphic — and the ending.
Definitely not for children.
Also available in Uprising: 12 Dystopian Futures.
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Code Breakers: Beta — Colin F. Barnes
Basically, it’s more of the same as Prequel and Alpha, which is all quite good and keeps one rivetted and moving along at a very good pace but, and here’s the thing, i just can’t handle diving into Gamma at the moment, it’s all become a bit too much.
Yeah, for now at least, i’ve totally overloaded all of my data banks and overheated my CPU’s with all this hacking, AI’s, post apocalypse chaos, everyone wanting to kill each other and take over the world, etc., etc..
So i’m off for some quiter paced reading for a while and maybe i’ll get back to reading Gamma and finishing the series sometime in the future, maybe not.
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Code Breakers: Alpha — Colin F. Barnes
After the super lively prequel i was wondering if this could keep up, and i have to say that it more than matched my hopes. This is all rather full on stuff, it just doesn’t stop steaming along full tilt. I can’t remember the last time i read a book so fast, just didn’t want to put it down.
Back are our two wonderful protagonists from the prequel and this time they’re joined by Jerry. Jerry’s lead a rather sheltered life in a nice big, clean, domed city, that is, until it all goes wrong one day and he has to leave and run off into the wasteland outside.
There’s also lots of other great characters added to the mix with lots of cyberpunky, post-apocalyptic, dystopian shenanigans to go along with them. Yes, folks, we loves any kind of shenanigans at Kindle Worm HQ and this ones got several different kinds.
Full steam ahead into Beta: don’t go away, i’ll be back soon.
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Code Breakers: Prequel — Colin F. Barnes
A quick and lively prequel for the main series, which i have dived eagerly straight into without a pause.
Characters are really well written and perfectly suited for this nuked out, post apocalyptic wasteland that the world has become. I am so hoping the rest of the series holds up to what’s been suggested here because it looks like it’s going to be a rather good read.
Next up: Code Breakers: Alpha.
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Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom — Cory Doctorow
Published a year after Altered Carbon this book takes a lot of the re-sleeving ideas from Richard’s book and instead of placing them into the realm of super warriors, criminals, etc.; Cory puts them into a future Disney Land theme park in an alternative dystopian future.
Having very much enjoyed Altered Carbon, i was left quite disappointed by the sequels, especially Woken Furies, and so it was rather nice to find a story like Cory’s that took some of the best ideas of Altered Carbon and spun them into a new Earth-side future that we can all begin to relate to because we’ve all heard of these real places.
No, this isn’t the blood and gore fest that Altered Carbon was, and neither does it have the amazing future-sex-drugs thing — they’re still smoking crack from crack pipes FFS. 
But it does have the murder mystery and the loss of the intervening memories between back up and re-sleeving that Altered Carbon does, all wrapped around who gets to control various Disney Land attractions.
So yeah, if you’ve read any other Cory Doctorow books and enjoyed them then do give this a go, and also, if you enjoyed Altered Carbon, i’d bet a few pennies that you’ll enjoy this also, albeit a very much tamed down version.
There’s also a follow up novella: Truncat.
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Obsidian Worlds — Jason Werbeloff
I only recently discovered Jason’s writing and i have to say that i’m really enjoying it.
Obsidian Worlds is a whole book full of short stories about random sci-fi things which i chose to read as inbetweenies between chapters of How Emotions Are Made. It worked out really well giving nice little breaks to allow Lisa’s cutting edge science to percolate through my synapses, although, unfortunately, there aren’t enough shorts in this collection to cover all the chapters in Lisa’s book. Ho hum, i’ll just have to find some other shorts to read.
So yeah, Jason has a Phd in philosophy and i think that kinda adds a certain flavour to Jason’s sci-fi, and i do like philosophers who chose to write stories instead of academic papers — much more fun for all of us.
Other philosophers who write stories that i recommend would be Aldous Huxley and Pascal Mercier.
Your Averaged Joe
The Cryo Killer
Falling for Q46F
Visiting Grandpa’s Brain
The Photons in the Cheese Are Lost
The Time-Traveling Chicken Sexer
The Man with Two Legs
F**king Through the Apocalypse
Bleed Me Silicone
Dinner with Flexi
The Experience Machine
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The Camille — Colby R. Rice
This novella is titled as ‘Til Dolls Do Us Part on Colby’s website and Colby says it is the first episode in what i hope will be a rather long series.
Set in 2054 when nano technology and AI has taken over most things and even the nano technology is intelligent.
As this is a novella don’t expect too much, but it’s certainly a great taster for what may be coming from Colby in the future. That being said, it can also be read as a stand alone if you’re just wanting something quick to read.
Colby is a great writer and really keeps your attention once you start reading. Do check out her other books.
Also available in the 2054 anthology.
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It looks quite exciting and sounds rather interesting.