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Silicon Sunset : Where the Information Highway Really Leads

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I truly hope Scott Grusky's vision of the future does not come to pass. He gives us a little sugar with our medicine, though. The story is clever, entertaining, and often funny. It's a fascinating tale of where society might be headed (although I hope not).

This book uses trite, convoluted language to tell a story that's frankly just not all that compelling. Yes-the concept of implanting computer chips in human brains may have been revolutionary at the time, but now it's passe and I think there's got to be a GOOD writer out there who can make that theme a LOT more interesting.

You will yawn all the way through this book. Only read it if you're having trouble sleeping!

While reading Silicon Sunset by Scott Grusky, I was shocked and horrified by many of its plotlines. If Grusky's vision and completely logical premonitions come true, the world will be a living computer application-- complete with a KILLER APP.....

Grusky, a newcomer to the Sci-Fi book world, could quite possibly be one of the greatest writers our time. Deftly intelligent and with quick-witted humor, Grusky explores the darker side of the high-technology trends.

This book will win awards this year. ***** 5 Stars

Let me begin by saying that I am not normally a science fiction reader. I also don't know a tremendous amount about computers or cyberculture in general. Perhaps that is why I'm even more impressed by Grusky's Silicon Sunset. He does a truly bang-up job of exploring foreign/technical territory and making it absolutely fascinating. His mind-numbingly detailed world, which is set in the year 2077 when all humans have been implanted with networked computer chips, has a multitude of clever and compelling features. Even several days after finishing the book, I find myself still pondering various aspects of the storyline, and still reaping little insights that Grusky planted about where we are headed as a civilization. I strongly recommend this book to anyone that is tired of formulaic plots and conventional logic. Grusky is really onto something universal here, so Internet newbies should not be put off by the high-tech subject matter. I don't see Silicon Sunset as stu! ck in any genre. It is a gem of a read for anyone who loves to think and discover new truths about our world!

now that scientists are plotting to put microchips in human beings, this novel is more salient and relevant than ever. i think this should be required reading for anyone who thinks of cloning, genetic engineering, and cybernetics as mere larks. the villian in the piece is a little too realistic, if you know what i mean. this is a very enjoyable book.

This was a very enjoyable book about an unpleasant version of the near future. The book started off following the main characters for a few days, giving the reader a glimpse at their daily lives. Beginning with the second section, which goes back over the history that led up to this "dystopia", I found it very hard to put down. I would recommend the book highly, particularly if you have liked books like Neuromancer, by Scott Gibson.

Silicon Sunset, is, um, disturbing, in that it shouldn't be so easy for the reader to slide into such a finely crafted madhouse world-and language -as that depicted here without any hand-holding from the author, but (t)here you are, and if you take that as the point of the novel you could lose some sleep... The timing of this story is exquisite, and accidental. Grusky's been birthing the damn thing through a decade-long series of oblivious midwives, and has finally had to perform the delivery himself. I'm here to report that the baby is very healthy indeed, even if it does have two navels and an eye in the back of its head. Strange creatures such as this are, I think, youbetcha welcome now as we stumble around trying to craft our self-fulfulling prophecies for these highly charged Last and First days; something, ANYTHING, to counteract the ennui of, say, yet another rock-in-the-sky fx-moneysuck placebo with the audacity to call itself Armaggeddon... For orientation (not! ! description), Silicon Sunset is more Millennium than X-Files, more 'This is who we are' than 'The Truth is Out There.'  Nah, that truth is In Here, in the mirror, and boy howdy, what a funhouse mirror you stand before when you enter Silicon Sunset!  Most importantly, this bambino's FUN to interact with. Being one who dives out the window at the mere mention of an economic report on TV, I was surprised to find myself so caught up in all the bizarre intricacies of that aspect of the plot. Ditto for this particular take on cybernetic evolution. Grusky has an odd talent for immersing himself in the most unpalatable topics (he'll spend YEARS if necessary), then emerging with a wickedly delicious angle on it, to which a big old belly laugh, half on-site spontaneous, half o mama appreciative, is the only possible response. For me the appreciative part had to do with how surprisingly familiar are the strange events, and their context, in Silicon Sunset.  Again, 'this is who we are.' ! ! Or may become. Wow.