Reviews for Stories

The average rating for Stories based on 2 reviews is 3.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2018-10-18 00:00:00 Stephen Yanikian If you're into stuff like this, you can read the full review. Ancient Rayguns: "Mirrorshades" by William Gibson, Bruce Sterling et al (Original Review, 1985) Isn't that just the thing? With the digital world, social media and the online life, comes an entirely new kind of creeping, monolithic conformity. When everywhere you go cookies are recording your choices, advertising companies can predict your needs and your boss is your friend on Facebook, you need to be careful about what you download on Kindle. Writers and publishers too are constrained by this social coercion and so we end up with a homogenised world. Writers are only allowed to be creative within strictly policed generic parameters.

Review # 2 was written on 2007-10-07 00:00:00 Matthew Peterson Here the mediocre and the barely readable rub shoulders with pop genius. The lesser cyberpunks come across like caffeinated 1950s squares desperately trying to sound like the beatniks they've heard so much about. Want some holodrugs to go with your cyberslang, daddy-o!!? The greats have a singular ease of style and taste for the bizarre that gives you a whiff of the 80s, but the colors are still bright after twenty years. Flawed, but essential.