Samuil Petrovitch (5 books in series)
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review 1: Ok, a book about post apocalyptic London, an ex-crim-turned-physics-genius who has to save the city from the Russians, the ghetto gangs, oh and the first ever AI trying to turn London into the recently extinct Tokyo. With his sidekick 19 year old genetically enhanced Nun bodyguar...
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review 1: An extraordinary main character. From the first book through the end of this one (the third in a trilogy) he grows so wonderfully - without straying too far from the rough, foul-mouthed kid he started out as. It's fun to watch. Add him to a believable near-future dystopian London...
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review 1: Disappointing second entry in the series. To say that it is a mess would be an understatement: the author seems to throw everything at the wall to see what sticks, but in the end not much seems to make sense. On top of that, every time he doesn't know what to do with a character,...
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review 1: Samuil Petrovich is an amazing lead character. This series is a modern sci-fi classic. So well thought out and drawn. Easy to see why each of these books won the Philip K. Dick award. People will pass this series to their kids like LOtR and Song of Ice and Fire. Simply amazing. I...
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review 1: I found the plot similar in many ways to the Greg Mandel series by Peter F. Hamilton. Sometimes it felt a bit too fanciful, or that it had been fun to write, I guess, this made it less immersive. I find it doubtful that I will continue reading the series beyond this point. It was...