{"id":555,"date":"2009-07-05T22:33:21","date_gmt":"2009-07-05T22:33:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.revolutionsf.com\/revblogs\/geekcurmudgeon\/2009\/07\/05\/books-received-70509-night-shade-books-edition-part-2\/"},"modified":"2012-08-17T05:19:26","modified_gmt":"2012-08-17T05:19:26","slug":"books-received-70509-night-shade-books-edition-part-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.revolutionsf.com\/revblogs\/geekcurmudgeon\/2009\/07\/05\/books-received-70509-night-shade-books-edition-part-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Books received 7\/05\/09 Night Shade Books edition Part 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Let\u2019s take a quick look to see what\u2019s arrived in the mail here at the Geek Compound. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/ecx.images-amazon.com\/images\/I\/51eGXS63ZrL._SL500_AA240_.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Implied-Spaces-Walter-Jon-Williams\/dp\/1597801518\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;amp;s=books&amp;amp;qid=1246832478&amp;amp;sr=1-1\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"postlink\"><span style=\"font-style: italic\">Implied Spaces<\/span><\/a> by Walter Jon Williams<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold\">Promo copy:<\/span><\/p>\n<p>From Walter Jon Williams, the celebrated and influential author of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Hardwired-Walter-Jon-Williams\/dp\/1597800627\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;amp;s=books&amp;amp;qid=1246832643&amp;amp;sr=1-1\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"postlink\"><span style=\"font-style: italic\">Hardwired<\/span><\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Voice-Whirlwind-Walter-Jon-Williams\/dp\/1597800872\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;amp;s=books&amp;amp;qid=1246832701&amp;amp;sr=1-1\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"postlink\"><span style=\"font-style: italic\">Voice of the Whirlwind<\/span><\/a>, and <span style=\"font-style: italic\">Angel Station<\/span> comes <span style=\"font-style: italic\">Implied Spaces<\/span>, a new novel of post-singularity action, pyrotechnics, and intrigue. Aristide, a semi-retired computer scientist turned swordsman, a scholar of the implied spaces, seeking meaning amid the accidents of architecture in a universe where reality itself has been sculpted and designed by superhuman machine intelligence. While exploring the pre-technological world Midgarth, one of four dozen pocket universes created within a series of vast, orbital matrioshka computer arrays, Aristide uncovers a fiendish plot threatening to set off a nightmare scenario, perhaps even bringing about the ultimate Existential Crisis: the end of civilization itself! Traveling the pocket universes with his wormhole-edged sword Tecmessa in hand and talking cat Bitsy, avatar of the planet-sized computer Endora, at his side, Aristide must find a way to save the multiverse from subversion, sabotage, and certain destruction.<\/p>\n<p>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.revolutionsf.com\/bb\/weblogs\/upload\/16\/3469006654a51271b03a61.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold\"><span style=\"font-style: italic\">Lightbreaker<\/span> by Mark Teppo<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold\">Promo copy:<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Markham has returned to Seattle, searching for Katarina, the girl who, a decade ago, touched his soul, literally tearing it from his body. But what he discovers upon arriving is dark magick &#8211; of a most ancient and destructive kind! An encounter with a desperate spirit, leaping destructively from host to host, sets Markham on the trail of secretive cabal of magicians seeking to punch a hole through heaven, extinguishing forever the divine spark. Armed with the Chorus, a phantasmal chain of human souls he wields as a weapon of will, Markham must engage in a magickal battle with earth-shattering stakes! Markum must delve deep into his past, calling on every aspect of his occult training for there to be any hope of a future. But delve he must, for Markham is a veneficus, a spirit thief, the Lightbreaker&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/ecx.images-amazon.com\/images\/I\/51a-VVHQZRL._SL500_AA240_.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Passage-at-Arms-Glen-Cook\/dp\/1597801194\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;amp;s=books&amp;amp;qid=1246830035&amp;amp;sr=1-1\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"postlink\"><span style=\"font-style: italic\">Passage at Arms<\/span><\/a> by Glen Cook<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold\">Promo copy:<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The ongoing war between Humanity and the Ulant is a battle of attrition that Humanity is losing. Humans do, however, have one technological advantage &#8211; trans-hyperdrive technology. Using this technology, specially designed and outfitted spaceships &#8211; humanity&#8217;s climber fleet &#8211; can, under very narrow and strenuous conditions, pass through space undetected. &quot;Passage at Arms&quot; tells the intimate, detailed, and harrowing story of a climber crew and its captain during a critical juncture of the war.<\/p>\n<p>\n<span style=\"font-weight: bold\">More in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.revolutionsf.com\/bb\/weblog_entry.php?e=1987\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"postlink\">Part 1<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let\u2019s take a quick look to see what\u2019s arrived in the mail here at the Geek Compound. Implied Spaces by Walter Jon Williams Promo copy: From Walter Jon Williams, the celebrated and influential author of Hardwired, Voice of the Whirlwind, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.revolutionsf.com\/revblogs\/geekcurmudgeon\/2009\/07\/05\/books-received-70509-night-shade-books-edition-part-2\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-555","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v15.2.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.revolutionsf.com\/revblogs\/geekcurmudgeon\/2009\/07\/05\/books-received-70509-night-shade-books-edition-part-2\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Books received 7\/05\/09 Night Shade Books edition Part 2 - The Geek Curmudgeon\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Let\u2019s take a quick look to see what\u2019s arrived in the mail here at the Geek Compound. 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