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We have no future because our present is too volatile. We have only risk management. …
Interesting, how Gibson/ Cayce are tackling how brands and hyper-design are exerting influence over people, places and everyday life. I feel strangely comfortable with the writing. I think I understand Cayce's "allergy" to branding, at least partially.
When Rosemary Harper joins the crew of the Wayfarer, she isn't expecting much. The …
This book is so chock-full of warmth, I'm crying tears of happiness and contentment. If you need something to lift your heart, go get yourself some comfort food, rest down at your favourite spot and pick up this book and read.
Know your enemy - or be defeated
AD 2204 An alien shipwreck is discovered at …
Genetically modified humans – omnias – changing between male and female every 1000 days after achieving adulthood. Pronouns sie/ hir.
When Raccoon City, a remote mountain community, is suddenly besieged by a rash of grisly …
Glad the Jill sandwich made it into the book
'Tis done.The world is a most confused and unsteady place -- especially London, center of finance, innovation, and conspiracy -- …
As the flames of treachery spread outwards through the Imperium, Horus mobilises those forces who are loyal to him, and …
The Matrix: a world within a world, a graphic representation of the databanks of every computer in the human system; …
It is the late 1600s, on the high seas. A group of Barbary galley slaves plot as they ply the …
Neal Stephenson's Quicksilver, a monumental epic that follows his critically acclaimed international bestseller Cryptonomicon, is a novel of history, adventure, …
The Master of the Blind Tower — a vast fortification housing countless telepaths — has …
A well done "who-done-it?" in a unique setting, which allows the author to use rather poetic descriptions when it comes to the astropath's experience of the world. We also follow Shira Calpurnia's Fate after the events of the last book – Legacy – and how she has to deal with questions of self-worth and duty; in a very believable way.
Arbites officer Shira Calpurnia is appointed to protect an ancient trading charter, which is being …
In a society which is dominated by state religion and a class system, we are presented with a well thought-out story of Imperial law versus Ecclesiarchal law, wherein Shira Calpurnia is more of a side character used to deliver the story. This fact does not detract from the overall enjoyment, though. We can see aristocracy acting at its worst, in hereditary intrigues and inter-ship politics. Besides that, the novel provides us with some nice insights into the Adeptus Mechanicus and the dangers of warp travel and how it affects the average human being.
News of Horus's treachery is in the open, and a time of testing has come. …
Title and subtitle are as far as the prominent two plot threads go. Besides some embellishment in form of some (to fans of the W40K universe) known rivalry between Legions (eg Space Wolves/ Thousand Sons) you get exactly what you'd expect. Embedded in a mix of martial action, gore and cosmic horror, is a fine, though somewhat superficial discourse about the meaning of brotherhood. Fans of space or rather warp travel get a believable description of the Immaterium, based on colours and emotions. All that written in diverse language, depending on which Legion's character is the point of view.
Patricia is a witch who can communicate with animals. Laurence is a mad scientist and inventor of the two-second time …
The Master of the Blind Tower — a vast fortification housing countless telepaths — has been murdered and Arbites officer …
Arbites officer Shira Calpurnia is appointed to protect an ancient trading charter, which is being bequeathed to its rightful heir. …