"Chevette never stole things, or anyway not from other people, and definitely not when she was working."

So how's she going to explain the sunglasses? And not just any sunglasses, but this one, very special, very expensive pair, loaded with the data that threaten to utterly transform her city of San Francisco, State of Northern California, in the year 2005.

Halonhakkaaja kindly promised to deliver this book to sumako, thank you!

Book is now here.

Thank you for the book! Great surprise. Thank you also to the courier!

Sain kirjan suomeksi, joten lukemista nopeuttaakseni tämä on vapaa uudelle lukijalle.

Kiitos muuttotyhjennysavusta!

Thank you very much for this book, my spouse wanted to read it.

My spouse said that the story was a bit dull and that it definitely wasn’t the best book he has read by Gibson.

This wishlist book is on its way to the next reader. Happy reading!

Book arrived safely. I look forward to reading it. Thanks for sharing.

Described in the blurb on the back as an "audacious, witty and passionate look at our possible future" we are told about five types of guns and two non-lethal weapons in the first five pages. For me this is a real problem. Right from the outset I struggled to see this story as being little more than a thriller. A thriller that was lacking in enough action, intrigue and twists and turns to make it a real page turner.

Similarly whilst I saw the bridge, inhabited by the lower reaches of society, as symbolising the distance between the haves and have-nots of technology the very fact that it was set only some 12 years after it was first published and 15 years before I actually read it meant that it just didn't feel particularly futuristic nor a proper social commentary (if it had been set in say 2050 I might have felt differently). This ultimately meant that I struggled to see just what message the author was trying to convey.

Sci-fi isn't really my thing and this was my first book by the author. Therefore, I don't want to appear overly negative, there were some good elements. Firstly I enjoyed the author's pared down writing style, he has avoided overblown text making it is easy to visualize his 'futuristic' California. Likewise I felt that the two main characters, whilst only sketched, had enough substance to imagine them struggling to find their niche in a society where power has been placed into the hands of the techno-savvy. An interesting if not compelling introduction to the author.

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mooched this book recently.. will read it soon and then send on