Beautiful Red
Gelesen von M. Darusha Wehm
M. Darusha Wehm
(4,293 Sterne; 29 Bewertungen)
The future is boring. Technology has solved 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 she discovers that her employer's computer system has been invaded.
Jack enlists the help of her only friends – her co-worker, Gilles and Adrian, an online friend she's never met – to help her track down the source of the invasion. Her investigation leads her to a shadowy group called the Red, where Jack learns that not everyone lives a life of quiet servitude.
Even though she believes that the Red are responsible for a series of gruesome attacks, Jack begins to become attracted to their worldview. In her search for the people responsible for the attacks, she confronts the leaders of the group as well as her own burgeoning sense of self-awareness.
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Still applauding in Borneo
Lord Jim
(4 Sterne)
This is my second book of Darusha's after Self Made. The near future, tech driven and isolationist cyberpunk genre is really growing on me....it is a thought provoking possibility....which this book explores in detail with an array of tech concepts and lifestyle choices. Absolutely love Darusha's narration...the delivery reminds me of Nathan Lowell...hope you receive this as a compliment Dsrusha. So...onto my next book by this author...
By: radioCat
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I have come to Beautiful Red long after its completion, but I think, not too late. Many of the comments made on PodioBooks have been appreciative, and a few not so. I must throw my hand in with the book's supporters. Beautiful Red is a well crafted cyberpunk story involving ...
By: Ollie
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Just finished reading this book from my book reader app on my phone and felt compelled to make a comment somewhere about the book. Thought the first half was brilliantly put together. The ideas about the future were brilliant, and the story was built well around this. Now the bad ...
By: BritOnTour
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***** WARNING: SPOILER ALERT ***** BE careful reading these comments as Ollie felt it necessary to write/complain about the ending of the story. ollie, you may have been disappointed in the ending, but there really is no need to ruin it for everyone else. It seems that a lot of ...
By: Brian
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Hopefully, I'm not giving anything way, but *SPOILER ALERT* just in case. The two final surprise revelations seem incredibly unlikely to me. What are the odds that those, plus the main events, would all occur around Jack? Despite this strain on suspension of disbelief, the story as a whole was ...
By: Paul
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Just finished listening to this book. Overall I really like the writing and narration. The ending felt a little abrupt but OK. Good job of building a world that reminds me a little (not too much) of “True Names” by Vernor Vinge and “Trouble and Her Friends” by Melissa Scott. ...
By: Dan Dessau
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This novel has the substance of a short story. All of the relevant action and big plot reveals happen in the last three chapters/episodes. I can't believe I sat through the whole thing, waiting for the plot to get going. This is decent prose but a mediocre story, featuring a ...
By: osmia
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I loved your world building. Could really feel like I was in Jack's shoes. It was great that she could afford to eat real food once a week. Made me feel happy for her. I did not see the end coming the way you did it. Great story.