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A review by steveab
Islands in the Net by Bruce Sterling
4.0
I reread this after many years. Didn't love it quite as much as the first time though, though still a great story. For the late 1980s, author Bruce Sterling anticipated many facets of the modern information age. Global information network, cyber crime, cyber terror, changing roles for women, desolation of Africa, corporate neo-liberalism, deadly drones, nuclear terrorists, shifting balance of power away from the West.
Laura Webster makes for an intriguing and admirable character, pulled from liberal idealist PR type work into the world of global intrigue. She toughens through a series of encounters and incident, meets lots of colorful characters, and finds the has a role to play in saving the world. A wild ride.
Laura Webster makes for an intriguing and admirable character, pulled from liberal idealist PR type work into the world of global intrigue. She toughens through a series of encounters and incident, meets lots of colorful characters, and finds the has a role to play in saving the world. A wild ride.