Lucifer's Dragon
10 best books like Lucifer's Dragon (Jon Courtenay Grimwood): California Voodoo Game, The Sky Road, Budayeen Nights, Slant, Mysteries of the Diogenes Club, Elvissey, Fools, Needle In The Groove, Storming the Reality Studio: A Casebook of Cyberpunk & Postmodern Science Fiction, Down the Bright Way
| Author | Larry Niven |
| ISBN | 0517128144 |
Dream Park, the ultimate in amusement parks, was about to embark on the greatest Game ever: the California Voodoo Game. Across the world bets were being placed; fortunes and reputations hung in the balance. Gaming careers would be made--or destroyed. And the most advanced software package ever invented...
| Author | Ken MacLeod |
| ISBN | 0812577590 |
Centuries after the catastrophic Deliverance, humanity is again reaching into space. And Clovis, a young scholar working in the spaceship-construction yard, could make the difference between success and failure. For his mysterious new lover, Merrial, has seduced him into the idea of extrapolating...
| Author | George Alec Effinger |
| ISBN | 1930846193 |
George Alex Effinger's first short-fiction collection in nearly 15 years, these nine tales are set in Budayeen, the walled city in the sand, a city of dark shadows and even darker inhabitants, where a Raymond Chandleresque vision has been created -- hardboiled, noir, futuristic -- but with a twist....
| Author | Greg Bear |
| ISBN | 0812524829 |
In the sixth decade of the 21st century, the world has been transformed. Nanotechnology has been perfected, giving humans the ability to change their environment and themselves on the cellular level. And the study of the mind has brought about a revolution in both human psychotherapy and artificial...
| Author | Kim Newman |
| ISBN | 1932265309 |
3 1/2
This is a collection of 5 short stories/novellas - more stories about the elusive Diogenes Club. I'll list them in the order of preference, not appearance:
Kentish Glory: The Secrets of Drearclif Grange School - 4 stars
My favorite of the lot, perhaps because it's the...
| Author | Jack Womack |
| ISBN | 0802134955 |
At once a biting satire and a taut, fast-paced thriller, Elvissey is the story of Isabel and John, a troubled couple who voyage from the year 2033 to a strangely altered 1954. They are on a desperate mission to kidnap the young Elvis Presley and bring him back to the present day to serve as a ready-made cult...
| Author | Pat Cadigan |
| ISBN | 0553295128 |
In her first novel, Mindplayers, Pat Cadigan introduced a very cool setting and technology. Unfortunately, in my opinion, she didn't do much with it, storywise. Cadigan returns to the setting of Mindplayers in her third novel, Fools, and this time she delivers an engrossing story that takes full advantage...
In this astonishing novel Jeff Noon allows the complex rhythms of dance music to infect his language, creating a new kind of writing / liquid dub poetics / in the grooves he discovers a world where the scratches of the stylus cut the body / a dj's samples are melodies of blood / love is a ghost lost in the boom...
| Author | Larry McCaffery |
| ISBN | 0822311682 |
The term “cyberpunk” entered the literary landscape in 1984 to describe William Gibson’s pathbreaking novel Neuromancer. Cyberpunks are now among the shock troops of postmodernism, Larry McCaffery argues in Storming the Reality Studio, marshalling the resources of a fragmentary culture...
| Author | Robert Reed |
| ISBN | 1841492558 |
In the deepness of space there are millions of worlds like our own - and each with its own humanity. They are linked by the Bright, an ancient pathway between the stars created by an ancient, godlike race known only as the Makers. Now humanity travels the Bright, uniting its worlds to a common desiny. But...
| Author | John C. Brewer |
| ISBN | 1937979008 |
"A riveting modern thriller." -- Midwest Book Review
Hector’s father is dead. Killed fighting in Iraq. So his mother moved the family back to her boring hometown where Hector can’t connect. Worse, his new next door neighbors, the Zahedis, are from Iran, and the son, Sanjar is Hector’s...
| Author | Bruce Sterling |
| ISBN | 0929480708 |
Non so davvero perché, ma non riesco ancora a farmi piacere Sterling come vorrei. E dire che lui è proprio il padre cofondatore del genere che più amo, il cyberpunk. Alla fantascienza visionaria e ipertecnologica di Gibson, che preferisco, si affianca quella più sociologica e geopolitica di Sterling....
| Author | John Clute |
| ISBN | 0765303787 |
It is the dawn of the fourth millennium, and for trader Nathanael Freer it is business as usual. Tile Dance, his ship, is in the safe hands of KathKirtt, an AI with two minds, and a loyal krewe of cybernetic and android helpers. His latest commission-to deliver a shipment of nano-forges to the planet Eolhxir--is...
I will admit that my choice of rating for this book varies from moment to moment but I a kind soul so shall leave it at this.
The reason for my indecision is that the book has many good points but a rather weak ending - normally I would mark it accordingly but there is more to this author.
You see this...
I failed.
I made it sixty-five pages into Necroville before I sank down onto the baking-hot sands of defeat, dazzled by McDonald's bright prose, but confused, lost and thirsty for something else to read. I lay there - watching the unread novels in my collection circling - and wanted to give in,...
| Author | Stephen Baxter |
| ISBN | 0061054216 |
Stephen Baxter to me is one of those hard science fiction writers who comes up with some amazing ideas and then sets about blowing your mind with them. Anti-ice is no different, from its discovery to the final pages of the book what you have here is an alternate history story driven by an extra ordinary discovery.
Stephen...
