My second novel. Naturally I think it's great, and everyone should read it. :)

Irreconcilable Differences is about a woman named Rachel Santana. She is an agent of Interpol Covert Services. She’s thirty-six years old, married, soon to be divorced, and an experienced undercover operator. They’ve taken a digital copy of her mind and personality, and implanted it in Micki Blake, a 16 year old hacker girl from rural Kansas.The mission: Locate the dangerous new player who is prowling the More...

James R. Strickland's sophomore effort for Flying Pen Press builds on the mastery, and creative bending, of established cyberpunk conventions he so skillfully demonstrated in his debut title Looking Glass. His latest work, Irreconcilable Differences, takes us even further into his dismantled, post-collapse, North America and beyond the dystopic industrial cores and fantastic corporate techno-palaces typical of the genre and brings it to new, and equally-gritty locales; a family farm, a motor More...

Cranks up the fast action of Looking Glass yet again, this time in an unusual location...the inside of the head of a teenage girl in central Kansas. You may be wondering "how's that gonna work?", but Strickland pulls it off in brilliant fashion. And, as before, we get a new approach to the question, "What does it mean to be human?" It's cyberpunk adventure and a coming-of-age novel all in one, and proves that, in a networked world, you don't have to be in the big city to b More...

The second book by this author and it's good, but not quite as good as the first, IMHO. The technical aspects of the writing itself tighten up, but the plotting and pacing aren't quite as good. Still good though.

Another solid cyberpunk tale from Mr. Strickland. Deftly managing dual perspectives of a jaded teen-age hacker and the battle-hardened veteran who's digitized consciousness is implanted in her brain, Irreconcilable Differences moves through the fractured landscape of a future Balkanized America menaced by corporate espionage and treachery. A worthy read.