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Title: The Zenith Angle by BRUCE STERLING ISBN: 0-345-46061-8 Publisher: Del Rey Pub. Date: 27 April, 2004 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 2.62 (8 reviews)
Rating: 1
Summary: Weak..A short story writ too long
Comment: Overall, this was a disappointment. Either you like Sterling's prose or you don't. I happen to like it but this book is less than a novel that what seems like a long treatment for a novel. Plot points come and turn on a dime with little involvement of characters or even explaination. Bits and pieces sparkle with Sterling's take on things but these flashes are far and few in between. You really don't care that much about any of the characters and when the main protagonist goes through huge, mostly unexplained behavior shifts, you really don't care. I only kept reading it to the end just to see if Sterling would put him and the reader out of their misery. I think I'm going to have to re-read "islands in the net" to wash the bad taste of this one out of my mouth.
Rating: 2
Summary: Very disappointing!
Comment: I've come to expect a lot more from Bruce Sterling, starting with amazing shaper / mechanist universe, aka Schismatrix Plus. All his other works are very good, though none invoked in me the same sense of wonder. Reading "Zenith Angle" was shocking, knowing Bruce Sterling cannot be this awful! Mind you, this book ranks fine with most other populist crap printed today, but for Sterling to have his name associated with this book should be devastating! I am truly sorry that some of Sterling's peers, such as Gibson, Rucker and even Varley exhibit similar letdowns in their latest books. Perhaps they should consider being less of visionaries and more of simply good authors / writers. 3rd grade language, terrible charachterization, jerky story line and no excitement!
Rating: 5
Summary: Not a true sci-fi, but great none the less!
Comment: There isn't a lot I can add to what the editorial reviews and fans haven't already written, but I, too, am a conspiracy "nut" (if you love sci-fi and cyberpunk it is almost mandatory) and this book is like water to a thirsty man in the desert. I would've loved to have given this book six stars, if that were possible. It is, in my opinion, cyberpunk enough to rank with "Neuromancer", "Mona Lisa Overdrive", "Snow Crash", "Cryptonomicon", "Altered Carbon", "Prey", "Cyber Hunter" and more. Loved it!
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Title: The Confusion (The Baroque Cycle, Vol. 2) by Neal Stephenson ISBN: 0060523867 Publisher: William Morrow Pub. Date: 13 April, 2004 List Price(USD): $27.95 |
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Title: Quicksilver (The Baroque Cycle, Vol. 1) by Neal Stephenson ISBN: 0380977427 Publisher: William Morrow Pub. Date: 23 September, 2003 List Price(USD): $27.95 |
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Title: Altered Carbon by Richard Morgan ISBN: 0345457684 Publisher: Del Rey Pub. Date: 04 March, 2003 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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Title: Eastern Standard Tribe by Cory Doctorow ISBN: 0765307596 Publisher: Tor Books Pub. Date: 01 March, 2004 List Price(USD): $23.95 |
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Title: Broken Angels by Richard K. Morgan ISBN: 0345457714 Publisher: Del Rey Pub. Date: 02 March, 2004 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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