Tag: book
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Book Review: Perdido Street Station
Perdido Street Station February 27, 2001 The Amazon summary for this book reads: The metropolis of New Crobuzon sprawls at the center of the world. Humans and mutants and arcane races brood in the gloom beneath its chimneys, where the river is sluggish with unnatural effluent and foundries pound into the night. For a thousand…
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Book Review: Photomosaics
Many years ago I grabbed books on various alternative art styles. One of the books, new and exciting at the time (think 10 years ago) was on photomosaics. In short, art made by computer that creates a montage of other images. One thousand images of donkeys can be used to make a picture of George…
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Book Review: City Come A-Walkin’
Author: John ShirleyISBN: 0-9642505-1-9Dell Publishing / Eyeball Books Depending on who you ask, the history of Cyberpunk literature starts around 1980, but is heavily influenced by different people. According to cyberpunk.ru: William Gibson, one of the five writers associated with the cyberpunk genre, is credited by critics and peers for typifying the cyberpunk writing form in…