Frontera

What would an semi-cyberpunk future look like from the Martian frontier, far from the mega-cities of Earth? If the corporations that govern the world sent you an unstable, augmented mercenary to search for highly profitable secret technology, you just might find out. (spoiler alert: they did)......more

I love Lewis Shiner's later work and his short fiction, so I picked up his first novel. This is the one that got him lumped in with the cyberpunk crowd. Yes, there is augmentation of humans with computer hardware. Yes, it is dystopian. And yes, fans of cyberpunk (me included) would enjoy it. But it's......more

Shiner shows us an Earth where unchecked capitalism has left our cities in ruins and our people crushed under the heel of monolithic corporations. Nationalism is dead, but it's been replaced by the same greedy bastards that once used Nationalism to line their pockets. Did I mention this was written......more

A science fiction story about a rescue mission to a Mars colony which has been quiet for over ten years. This was a fairly entertaining, fast-paced, space techno-thriller that reads like an 1980s action movie. Most of the characters are jerks with their own personal, political, and corporate agendas......more

Governments are gone, corporations have unilateral control and so are just expressions of their internalized dogma. Martian colony Frontera has axiomatic guests, Reece and Kane, both heroes in their own eyes, ostensibly railing against the corps to do “the right thing” with a secret on the new front......more