The Scifi-punk Bookfeed

Sci-fi Noir at its finest! The Ganymedan by R. T. Ester, Published by Solaris/Rebellion books Thanks to Solaris and Netgalley for the advance reader copy of this intense experience! It’s hard to know where to start. This book is a gripping sci-fi thriller with a shadow of tragic  darkness. It inhabits a future solar system so vivid and lived in, that felt so plausible. It battles with questions of morality, and what does it mean to be alive and sentient for machines or toandroids, and humans. It is the desperate flight of a wanted man aiming to stop heinous crimes from continuing to be perpetrated in secret. And yet a lace of humor trims the narrative pleasantly.  The reader is instantly immersed into a future with its own culture and jargon and you learn to adapt to it quickly if you are familiar with science fiction. Pieces of the strange puzzle snap into place as the desperation grows and the tension mounts. While could not necessarily relate to the main character, V-dot, I...

A Cinematic Hacker Apocalypse! Zer0es by Chuck Wendig, published August 2015 by Harper Voyager I was hooked right from the start. It had me on the edge of my seat, hurtling forward as the cast of unique but tech savvy young folks are defined and herded up into a secret facility. The author's created still currently relevant ideas about hackers and artificial intelligence. I think too many things are done with the best of intentions but without the foresight or insight as to what effects they will have. That's something I took away from this book, besides the sheer entertainment value! (which is turned up to 11!) ***SPOILER The artificial intelligence plays the nemesis of our protagonists. ***  But our ragtag band of protagonists with big attitudes, and serious hacker skillz don't know what they are dealing with, and they must discover what is behind the madness that is spreading, in which humans are turned into almost zombie-like automatons, and what is the dark influence o...

This Cyberpunk Political Thriller will leave you reeling and thinking! Infomocracy by Malka Older, published June 2016 by Tor.com Books Picture a world where a Google-like corporation has grown so large it IS the entire internet. A world where global video surveillance is pervasive, and many consider innocuous. A world that in order to seek peace most nations have disappeared and micro-democracy has taken hold: the entire globe is fractured into pockets of population who can vote for any ideology that they choose. The lines of division visible only in your feed. Cities still exist but every few blocks the laws and attitudes may change.  This massive corporation is called Information. Information controls not just the Internet but is the arbiter of global politics, sovereign nations have mostly been abandoned for groups of 100k citizens voting for a plethora of global political parties. Each party employs secret agents who “campaign” for voters. There’s deceptions, public misinforma...