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Revolution World
by
Katy Stauber (Goodreads Author)
Set in a near-future, post-ecological and post-economic collapse, Revolution World chronicles the romance between rogue genetic engineer Clio Somata, and martial-artist computer-programmer Seth Boucher. Sadly, the road of love is never easy... in this case, an overreaching US military establishment and an evil multi-national bioengineering firm has decided that they want w...more
Paperback, 300 pages
Published
March 1st 2011
by Night Shade Books
(first published March 1st 2001)
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Revolution World is a book set in a post-semi-apocalypse Texas. Full disclosure: I hate Texas. I hate Texans. However, Katy Stauber wrote with warmth and good characterization enough to make me forget how much I hate Texas and enjoy the Texan-centric ride that her book presented.
The book itself is jam-packed with gun-toting craziness. Genetic modifications, oppressive governments, resistance fighters, non-sparkly vampires, etc. It's pretty much what you would expect from an Austin author: cool a...more
The book itself is jam-packed with gun-toting craziness. Genetic modifications, oppressive governments, resistance fighters, non-sparkly vampires, etc. It's pretty much what you would expect from an Austin author: cool a...more
Oct 20, 2012
Tom Loock
rated it
5 of 5 stars
Recommends it for:
anyone who disagrees with US politics, any Texan, anyone looking for a very funny SF novel
Okay - Revolution World is "just" a four star novel, but I've awarded the fifth because so many readers were way too harsh with this first novel by Katy Stauber and I feel compelled to tip the scales back, because this novel deserves to be read. Why?
It's funny, often very funny (Friendly, helpful Canadian vampires, anyone?) and at times outright hilarious (Team Pom? Genius!). It's also deeply political, and dares to speak out on important issues like the so-called laws dealing with "terrorists"...more
It's funny, often very funny (Friendly, helpful Canadian vampires, anyone?) and at times outright hilarious (Team Pom? Genius!). It's also deeply political, and dares to speak out on important issues like the so-called laws dealing with "terrorists"...more
I’m guessing Katy Stauber is from Texas – or wants to be from Texas.
The Lone Star state of mind is central to “Revolution World” (Night Shade Books, $14.99, 228 pages), which is set in a dystopic near future in which the American government has become tyrannical and the global economy is in tatters.
Stauber does a nice job of mixing in a love affair with a solid narrative about genetic engineering and advanced computer hacking, but she throws in one too many extraneous elements and mucks up an o...more
The Lone Star state of mind is central to “Revolution World” (Night Shade Books, $14.99, 228 pages), which is set in a dystopic near future in which the American government has become tyrannical and the global economy is in tatters.
Stauber does a nice job of mixing in a love affair with a solid narrative about genetic engineering and advanced computer hacking, but she throws in one too many extraneous elements and mucks up an o...more
This book is a hilarious romp through a future world. Nerd romance! Gene-tweaked carnivorous giant bunnies and flammable extra-methane-producing cows! Vampires that are neither supernatural nor undead! Government, corporate, terrorist, and Texan plotting! The characters are engaging and the romance is, well, nerdy--and very sweet. It could have used better editing; some of the dialogue and exposition is a bit awkward, and I wish people would stop using "alright" as a word. All in all, an excelle...more
I had a lot of fun reading Revolution World. The author calls it a "beach read for nerds", and I think that's a perfect description. It's a funny, wildly imaginative story full of fire-breathing cows, ninja pomeranians, giant attack bunnies, and a sweetly awkward nerd romance. (Gotta love it when to show their love, the bioengineering whiz creates superintelligent ninja guard dogs (the aforementioned pomeranians) for her computer geekboy, while the geekboy is busy coding algorithms to spoof sate...more
I was so disappointed in this book.
I got it for a good price (5 or 6$ from Baen’s ebook library), and it seemed like it would be an awesome book. It’s in Texas! As a former Texan, I <3 Texas! It has ninja Pomeranians! giant killer bunnies! fire breathing cows! gene splicing! vampires! villains! good Tex-Mex!
It was silly, but not silly enough. Or if it were trying to give some sort of message (and it felt like it was) it was sloppily done.
In the future, society has collapsed, and not from the...more
I got it for a good price (5 or 6$ from Baen’s ebook library), and it seemed like it would be an awesome book. It’s in Texas! As a former Texan, I <3 Texas! It has ninja Pomeranians! giant killer bunnies! fire breathing cows! gene splicing! vampires! villains! good Tex-Mex!
It was silly, but not silly enough. Or if it were trying to give some sort of message (and it felt like it was) it was sloppily done.
In the future, society has collapsed, and not from the...more
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This is a book my boyfriend bought, read and loved and has been trying to get me to read it for a very long time. I put it off as long as I could...but then it happened to fit for a challenge, and I liked it well enough. The major thing that annoyed me was all the editing issues. I know it's not really fair to judge a book by those, but this wasn't a review copy and it's published by Night Shade Books. The amount of errors in words being flat out wrong, randoms words not deleted and a part of th...more
Stupid and not especially well written and pretty much every character in it is a Mary Sue. And trying to for humour is hard to do - definitely hit and miss. But not a whole lot stupider than say the dumbest of the Scalzi books (which are fantastic). So some potential here. And good ideas - from smart guard Pomeranians, to giant bunnies and fire breathing cows. This is billed as a first book - so hopefully there will be another book and it will be a bit better.
i think i dont particularly care for comedic fiction,unless one is a master of wit. This is a bit too broadly drawn - for instance, the Evil Corporation is 'Malsanto'. o Rly? The author can't seem to decide if she wants to write giggly, B-movie grade fluff or tackle Serious Subjects; and so, of course, does neither well. The literary equivalent of a bag of Cool Ranch Doritos.
For some reason, this book just didn't click with me. When I get into a really good book, it just flows. I didn't have that here. The story was good, and I particularly enjoyed the interpersonal dealings between Seth and Clio, but it just seemed that the important events in the book were lacking details to add that 'pop' to the mental imagery.
Not a bad book, just didn't make me go 'Wow!' by the time I was done.
Not a bad book, just didn't make me go 'Wow!' by the time I was done.
A fun read and an imaginative debut from a new author. I kind of wanted to like it more than I did, but I found the characters a little two-dimensional and ultimately I lost interest a third of the way through. I'll pick up her next book, though.
Enjoyed reading this one. It's quite fun and I liked that it was set in Texas. And who can go wrong with fire breathing cows and giant bunnies? The future is plausible and I think that it would be discussable by a book club.
Texas revolutions, fire-breathing cows, ninja pomeranians, Canadian vampires, and terrorist plots -- this book has something for everyone! Stauber is out there pushing the envelope, welding outrageous concepts together until you have something new, something fresh -- a tilting, juddering steel rollercoaster of a novel.
The core of the novel is an unexpected romance, but everything from gene manipulation to totalitarian government to videogames is explored, and somehow all comes back to the cente...more
The core of the novel is an unexpected romance, but everything from gene manipulation to totalitarian government to videogames is explored, and somehow all comes back to the cente...more
Great premise, but the execution left a lot to be desired. The pacing didn't quite work, and the romance subplots were at times painfully annoying.
Fast-paced fun read with lots of good ideas, lots of action and just the right (tiny) amount of romance.
The writing is painfully bad, and not in a beach-read guilty pleasure way.
Where is the next book?? Great read! Would make a great series!
Pretty good, bizarro punkish science fiction. It didn't grab me for some reason. Lots of excellent interesting ideas. You should try it yourself.
I wanted to give this book 5 stars. The blurbs were hilarious and I giggled throughout the book. BUT... it just didn't blow me away. Definitely a fun read, especially for nerdy Texans. There just wasn't that much depth to figure out.
I don't know that I'll be finishing this one. It reads pretty shallow, and at twenty pages in the cliches are coming fast and furious. Perhaps this book would be a of slightly higher quality with a re-edit.
I think I read like 10 pages of this book. Just didn't like the writing style. It seemed cheap (is that even a way to describe it???). I don't know, just wasn't for me.
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