Language: English
Written in: 2007
Published: 2008-12-01
Word count: 60,032 words (≈ about 4 hours)
License: Attribution Non-Commercial No Derivatives (cc by-nc-nd)
Categorie(s): Fiction, Science Fiction, High Tech, Thrillers
Tags: women, future, ai, computers, thriller, mystery, cyberpunk, science fiction
The future is boring. Technology has solved most of the world’s most pressing problems, leaving people with tedious work and mundane play.
Jack is a Security Officer Class 5, which sounds important, but isn’t. However, her banal life as a cubicle worker by day and tinkerer by night is interrupted when… (more)
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Darusha is the two-time Parsec Award shortlisted author of Beautiful Red and the Andersson Dexter novels Self Made, Act of Will and The Beauty of Our Weapons. She also writes short fiction.
She wrote critically about technology and its effect on society in her now archived weblog The Golden Hammer where she also podcast audio segments. She was also the perpetrator of several articles about popular and unpopular science at http://90ways.com.
She was previously the Senior Editor at The Conversations Network, the internet audio network started by IT Conversations’ Doug Kaye. In the physical world, she was a civil servant with the Government of Canada, and is now engaged more or less full-time in writing.
She is based in Victoria, BC, Canada and is currently living in New Zealand after sailing down the west coast of the Americas and across the Pacific Ocean with her partner, Steven, on their sailboat, Scream.
For more information about her writing and her travels, visit Darusha on the web at http://darusha.ca.
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Wed, 03 Aug 2011 18:26:11 +0200
Good book, I liked the fact that all the future high-tech makes sense, of course it is all sci-fi but it sounds like it could be possible in the (near) future, non of it sounds impossible or ridiculous. Clearly the author is aware of current technology and where it's weaknesses lie and improvements could be made. In the book these (obvious) improvements are the thing of the day, and people long for how it was in the past, which to us is now. This makes it possible for the reader to identify with… (more)
Good book, I liked the fact that all the future high-tech makes sense, of course it is all sci-fi but it sounds like it could be possible in the (near) future, non of it sounds impossible or ridiculous. Clearly the author is aware of current technology and where it's weaknesses lie and improvements could be made. In the book these (obvious) improvements are the thing of the day, and people long for how it was in the past, which to us is now. This makes it possible for the reader to identify with those people. I particularly liked the way the author uses descriptions of the world to explain the new status quo, the story about real food, about upgrade salons, how credits work, it all gives you an idea of the world that Jack lives in and why it makes sense that the Red exist.
(less)Mon, 17 Jan 2011 00:35:12 +0100
The book was written very intelligently. I liked the quite vivid writing style! I especially enjoyed seeing jester0boxen having quite some irritation resulting from being REALLY offline :) Quite close to us now, when our smartphone get's out of power :P. I also thought about the end being a bit to quick, a bit more red-interna would have been nice to read. I also wondered, why the big enterprises did allow for the revolutionary red to have such a big headquarter/training complex... Keep on up writing such nice stoies!