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A review by roba
The Rapture of the Nerds by Cory Doctorow, Charles Stross
3.0
Like fantasy and Tolkien, this is one of those SF books that uses the same basic toolkit as many others to make its aftermath-of-a-21st-century-singularity world. (I'm most familiar with Ken MacLeod's stuff, but I'm sure there's plenty of others doing similar things.)
It's quite pacy and there's some fun extrapolations of the toolkit pieces, plus some clunky satire on typical Boing Boing bugbears like Facebook and EULAs and so on. Entertaining enough, but without the weight to keep me reading the final few pages.
It's quite pacy and there's some fun extrapolations of the toolkit pieces, plus some clunky satire on typical Boing Boing bugbears like Facebook and EULAs and so on. Entertaining enough, but without the weight to keep me reading the final few pages.