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A cyberpunk classic
I'm amazed there's no reviews of this. Back in the day, it was considered a cyberpunk classic. Probably not quite as great as neuromancer but a good follow up read if you want something "different but similiar" (the classic SF fan's request for reading materials after a new favorite).

Interstate commerce with anti-aircraft missiles, drugs, gangsters, cybernetics. near orbit stations, heroes with implants, all a man or woman could wish for in a cyberpunk future with just a hint, a wee hint, of a Western.

Inspired a supplement for the Cyberpunk RPG.

All in all, I enjoyed it greatly. ... Read more

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By day Dagmar Shaw orchestrates vast games with millions of players spanning continents. By night, she tries to forget the sound of a city collapsing in flames around her. She tries to forget the faces of her friends as they died in front of her. She tries to forget the blood on her own hands.

But then an old friend approaches Dagmar with a project. The project he pitches is so insane and so ambitious, she can't possibly say no. But this new venture will lead her from the world of alternate-reality gaming to one even more complex. A world in which the players are soldiers and spies and the name of the game is survival. ... Read more

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Asimov On Heinlein
I particularly liked this issue of the digest size sci-fi pulp because in his editorial, Isaac Asimov discusses my favorite author the late Robert A. Heinlein's book Grumbles From The Grave.Here's a brief quote: "I was astonished at the trouble that Heinlein seemed to have in connection with money and with the efforts of editors to force him to revise his novels.As the universally acknowledged master of the art of science fiction writing, it seemed to me that he should have had trouble in neither direction..."Of course there are also good stories by Charles Sheffield and others. ... Read more