A Review of The Final Evolution

The Final Evolution by Jeff Somers My rating: 5 of 5 stars Avery Cates is a bad ass. A major bad ass. And he knows it. And so does half the world. What's left of it, anyway. It's a futuristic dystopia Jeff Somers gives us in this five book series and it's incredibly depressing, with …

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A Review of Degrees of Freedom

Degrees of Freedom by Simon Morden My rating: 5 of 5 stars Degrees of Freedom is the winner of the 2012 Philip K. Dick award and it's very well deserved, I think. It's the third and final book in the Samuil Petrovitch trilogy. I loved it and I hated to see it end. Samuil Petrovitch …

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A Review of Theories of Flight

Theories of Flight by Simon Morden My rating: 4 of 5 stars This is the second book in a three book series and I loved the first book so much, I had to get the next two. However, this one wasn't quite as good as the first one, in my opinion. Still, it was pretty …

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A Review of Ambient

Ambient by Jack Womack My rating: 5 of 5 stars Brilliant! Ambient is a 1987 (publication date) update of A Clockwork Orange with some additional ultraviolence and a new language thrown in. The author even pays tribute to A Clockwork Orange early in the book. In this book, we follow O'Malley, a bodyguard for a …

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A Review of Equations of Life

Equations of Life by Simon Morden My rating: 5 of 5 stars Loved this book! Great dystopian novel. Samuil Petrovitch is a Russian ex-pat living in the London Metrozone after an apocalypse, that we're told little about, has occurred some years in the past. He's a grad student in physics and about to solve the …

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