The Demi-Monde Saga (5 books in series)
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review 1: Une suite qui tient toutes ses promesses !Le rythme de ce second volet n'a rien à envier à son prédécesseur.L'écriture, toujours plaisante, est au service des personnages, que l'on retrouve avec bonheur, et on poursuit l'exploration du demi-monde avec bonheur.La grosse nouveauté ...
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review 1: The Demi-Monde is a holodeck style cyberpace generated by a quantum computer with almost unlimited processing power that was built to train US forces in asymmetric urban warfare. It was designed to be indistinguishable from reality because that's the only way the terror of such e...
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review 1: I don't think I've ever before read a book where I struggled to get through the prologue. The author's prose style and affectations were simply that annoying to me. There's a density to his work that I think is intentional, but the hints he gives which are supposed to entice de...
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review 1: It is now spring in the second tale of the Demi-monde saga. In an alternate 2018 world, an artificial computer world was set up in the ABBA quantum computer. Inside the dupes seem quite real. Some of them have been modeled on the worst villains from history. In the first tale the...
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review 1: This was the June SF Discussion Group’s title. This book is a strange mix of characters that once lived and fictional characters---cheer on the fictional characters most of the historical characters are on the nasty side. It all starts when the President’s daughter gets trappe...