Monthly Archive:: August 2007

Series Review Round Up – Alec Effinger’s Marid Audran

Well I finally finished Alec Effinger’s series about Marid Audran. Moving onto Spook Country but not before I give you all a quick review and my recommendations. I will try not to include any spoilers. First of all the series consists of 3 books. Make sure to read them in order: When Gravity Fails, A [&hellip

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Another Punk… Steampunk

Out of the world of Cyberpunk came the concept of Steampunk… ” Steampunk is a subgenre of fantasy and speculative fiction which came into prominence in the 1980s and early 1990s. The term denotes works set in an era or world where steam power is still widely used—usually the 19th century, and often set in [&hellip

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A night with William Gibson in Spook Country

As mentioned in my last post – Ling and I attended a signing and reading of William Gibson’s Spook Country last night. About 50 + people attended (full house) the event at Cody’s (last remaining) Bookstore on 4th St in Berkeley. Ling and I have attended these kind of events before ( for Neil Gaiman [&hellip

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Spook Country…

Tonight Ling and I are heading to Spook Country …. actually we are heading to Cody’s bookstore in Berkeley to see/hear William Gibson talk about and I am sure read from his new book Spook Country… Clearly Gibson is one of the pioneers of Cyberpunk and either Ling or I will have a report back [&hellip

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All The World’s Indeed a Stage …

Well, “Spook Country” I hear has a rock star protagonist. Rock stars have appeared in a few cyberpunk stories, one of them actually on my list of “Book I’ve Never Finished.” But a modern day concert a cyberpunk bloggable event? Oh hell ya! Especially if it’s RUSH. CONCERT SPOILERS BELOW I should note, just in [&hellip

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A Fistful of Steampunk!

Interesting site, A Fistful of Games, has a write-up of playing a steampunk board game, or a modified rule set of another game to encompass steampunk elements. Or something. OK. I didn’t really read it all the  way through, but I intend to. So I’m bloggin it here to remind me! Anywho — we’ve really [&hellip

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Blogging from Firefox

Just found this great Firefox addon called ScribeFire (actually Ling told me about it). It allows you to blog directly from within Firefox. Very cool you should check it out. Powered by ScribeFire

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Shadowrun the series Part 2

So what makes the Shadowrun Novels so special? Glad you asked. As I said in my previous post I was really a fantasy book reader prior to reading the first book in the Shadowrun series Never Deal with a Dragon. What made Shadowrun so unique was that it combined Science Fiction with Magic. The premise [&hellip

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Shadowrun the series Part 1

I mentioned earlier that this site’s name is an homage to the Shadowrun Novels and thought I would expand on the series a little bit and tell you why I enjoy it so much. First of all Shadowrun started out as a RPG ( role playing game ). I have to admit I have never [&hellip

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