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Irreconcilable Differences
by
James R. Strickland (Goodreads Author)
Rachel Santana is thirty-six years old. She's an agent for Interpol Covert Services. Before that, she was an interrogator at the White Sands Reeducation Camp, following the breakup of the United States. Before that, she was a prisoner there. Before that, a Yankee, one of a group of corporate mercenaries trying to extract something like a victory in the Middle East. Before...more
Paperback, 312 pages
Published
August 1st 2008
by Flying Pen Press LLC
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Nov 30, 2010
James
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5 of 5 stars
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Recommends it for:
Cyberpunk fans, Anime fans, Spy/Espionage story fans
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 rural hacker...more
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 rural hacker...more
Sep 15, 2008
Michael S.
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5 of 5 stars
Recommends it for:
Anyone who wants to see where cyberpunk might be headed.
Recommended to Michael S. by:
James R. Strickland
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 be on the cutting edge.....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.
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James R. Strickland has been telling stories since before he could read or write. By a long and circuitous route, through mandatory journal-keeping in high school, this led to an English Writing degree in 1990, and the pursuit of a master's degree in Communications from 1990 through 1993. Taking a break from graduate school, Strickland moved to the San Francisco Bay Area - nerdvana - to pursue a c...more
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