The Shockwave Rider, (Paperback)

from librisissimo

Brunner explicitly cribs his milieu from Alvin Toffler's "Future Shock" which purported to predict technological and social advances from the seventies onward. As with most 20th-century science fiction, quite a bit has come to pass, although not in exactly the way Toffler and Brunner imagined. Th...

from mustreaditall

I enjoyed The Sheep Look Up so much that I had really high expectations for this novel. But where Sheep was a sort of free form, bloody, experimental warning about the USA's impact on the global ecology of Earth, Rider is more of a standard cyberpunkish story. Don't get me wrong - there are some ...

from DinadansFriend

Well, once more Mr. Brunner, sometimes a city planner has shown us the future in advance. But in 1975, this was entertainment. The twenty-first century has made it manifest. A world of hacking computer networks for survival, of cyber war and soulless multi-nationals is navigated with some success...

from RandyStafford

My reactions to reading this novel in 1990. Spoilers follow. However, I was disappointed with this book on an ideational and literary level. First, this book, like many near-future, cautionary dystopias is a creature of its time. Brunner seems to have a somewhat tennous idea of how computers and ...

from DinadansFriend

Well, once more Mr. Brunner, sometimes a city planner has shown us the future in advance. But in 1975, this was entertainment. The twenty-first century has made it manifest. A world of hacking computer networks for survival, of cyber war and soulless multi-nationals is navigated with some success...