This one just, for whatever reason, didn’t resonate with me. With Williams at the helm, this series has the potential to be entertaining. I will probably give the next book in the series at some point. That said, Walter Jon Williams has writing chops and this book is not bad. I eventually had to call Houston informing them of my problem. Unfortunately, I never really got connected to the plot and when you are reading a high-octane, action-orientated, punked thriller like this and you find you attention wondering fairly consistently, than I think it's a pretty bad sign.
Let me say that despite the well worn premise (which, admittedly, was not as well worn at the time it was written), the writing was solid and there were some interesting moments of genuine fun. Um…not exactly ground-breaking as far as plots go:
Together, with an eclectic band of misfits and talented ruffians, they go about trying to bring a world of pain to the whoreporations running the show. Cowboy eventually teams up with Sarah, a street-wise bodyguard/assassin. Cowboy spends his time scratching out a living helping to break the power-grip of the corporate controlled orbitals. Our story centers on Cowboy, a cybernetically enhanced ex-fighter pilot who now acts as a smuggler in a now balkanized United States. If the above does not sound familiar, than you have not done enough cyberpunking. **bio-mechanical implants and enhancements are the norm **mean, faceless mega-corporations now run the planet from orbital satellites Written in 1986, this early cyberpunk story takes place in a world that has become cliché for these kinds of novels: Thus, I figured I could either round up to 3 stars and spend the review hating on all the things I didn't enjoy or basically hating on the story, or I could stick with 2 stars and try to be more balanced in my assessment. However, I also didn't "like it" enough to bestow the 3rd star and thus proclaim to the world that all should read this.
It doesn't deserve the stigma that is associated with the 2 star rating. It was moderately entertaining and had some excellent moments of action, story and character interaction.
Struggling to slap a rating on this novel really crystallized for me the problem with the current star rating system.
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