Sep
2
Book MEview: Epoch
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Over the weekend I burned through Timothy Carter’s Epoch. It was provided free of charge and sent through Minibook Expo, an awesome site where you can get books for free so long as you let the publisher know what you thought about the book(s) in question.
Here’s publisher Flux’s summary…
In his fourteen years, Vincent Drear has been sure of a few of things. First, the world is going to end. And until it does, he has two jobs: saving souls and protesting movies about boy wizards. But Vincent wonders if there’s more to life than this. His suspicions are confirmed when he finds an elf at his school science fair. Vincent’s excitement fades, though, as the elf informs him that his family’s religion is right about one thing: the end of the world is coming-in forty-eight hours! Vincent can’t save the world. His only hope is to get his family off Earth before demons wipe out everything, paving the way for a new epoch.
Did I like it? Hit the jump and find out.
Jul
3
Spooky Countries
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So I just started reading Gibson’s latest book, Spook Country, and while it took a couple of chapters for me to get into it (right around when Blue Ant was mentioned. Oops, was that a spoiler? Suckah!), it’s starting to get interesting. There’s talk of virtual reality never having left, instead it’s evolved into what you’re viewing right now. And then there’s the talk about “the grid”, and how the net has always been more than just what’s on screen, but where you’re sitting right now.
It’s fascinating stuff. I thought Gibson had lost it for the first few chapters. He’s been quick to prove me wrong. More on this when I’m done.