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A review by heliopteryx
Islands in the Net by Bruce Sterling
4.0
The most accurate portrayal of modern day technology, specifically the internet, that I have ever read from a book published in the 80s. There's no depiction of the Net as an approximation of a physical space, it's much more like the real world internet, a tool of mass, rapid communication.
At first, there's an odd sense that this book could have been published just recently, but the geopolitics extrapolated straight from the Cold War make it show its age a bit.
I hadn't read a cyberpunk book from the perspective of a corporate before. At first I thought the style of organization in the main corporation was made up, but it's a real thing, referred to as economic democracy in the book, but worker cooperatives in the modern day. Ocean Spray, the cranberry company, is an example of one such corporation.
At first, there's an odd sense that this book could have been published just recently, but the geopolitics extrapolated straight from the Cold War make it show its age a bit.
I hadn't read a cyberpunk book from the perspective of a corporate before. At first I thought the style of organization in the main corporation was made up, but it's a real thing, referred to as economic democracy in the book, but worker cooperatives in the modern day. Ocean Spray, the cranberry company, is an example of one such corporation.