All the Wind in the World
7.0
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Keep your eyes open . . . your head down . . . and your love secret. Sarah Jac Crow and James...
Young adult
Black Mirror - Season 3
8.7
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Black Mirror is a British science fictiontelevision anthology series created by Charlie...
Ross (3284 KP) rated Black Mirror - Season 1 in TV
Jan 8, 2018
The first episode sees the UK prime minister forced into considering an unpleasant act after a ransom demand from a kidnapper. It serves as a good representation of media coverage and their involvement in spreading panic and stoking outrage.
The next episode was a near-future look at a world where some classes of people spend their days on exercise bikes, presumably powering society. They are forced to watch endless hours of a small number of TV shows and are charged a fee to skip pop-up adverts for porn shows. The indictment of where society is headed, including the disposability of talent shows and how much more mandatory watching adverts could become, felt like something of a warning to turn back now!
The final episode revolved around people having the ability to instantaneously rewind and re-view moments of their lives and cast it to TV screens. The story looks at how this plays a part in a man's suspicions over his wife's faithfulness to their marriage. Similar to the previous 2 episodes, it shows that the technology, and people's reliance on it, does not help real life in any way, rather it further fuels suspicion and malcontent.
Three stories about the way the human race is headed told brilliantly.
The Peripheral
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Flynne Fisher lives in rural near-future America where jobs are scarce and veterans from the wars...
Intrusion
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Imagine a near-future city, say London, where medical science has advanced beyond our own and a...
Ghost Milk: Calling Time on the Grand Project
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What happens when the games have gone? Iain Sinclair reports on the trouble to come Beginning in his...
Leanne Crabtree (480 KP) rated At Your Beck & Call: Tales of a male escort in Books
Jan 7, 2021
This is my third book by the author, I think, and one thing I've noticed is she does a lot of background. And in this, I didn't care--AT ALL! I didn't care how he became an escort or what his clients liked or disliked.
I wanted him to meet this client he falls for and find out how he was going to make the relationship work with her considering his job and the mentioned age gap. Nowhere near that by 28% in--and 3 days later--so I'm giving up since I haven't enjoyed it much up til now.
I think I'm going to avoid this author in the future.
The Great Divide
Ben Fisher and Art by Adam Markiewicz
8.0
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In the near future, humanity awakens to the horrifying reality that the faintest touch from...
Dystopia
Cori June (3033 KP) rated Trickster's Girl (The Raven Duet #1) in Books
Aug 18, 2020 (Updated Aug 18, 2020)
I'd recommend it for kids that are wanting something YA but aren't ready for the mature sex and violence that is typical for most YA whose protagonist is 15 or older. Not that there isn't some hard discussions or danger. Mostly the biggest thing about it is the MC likes to think and sometimes talk in exclamations! It gets a bit tiring accurate or not.
Vinland Saga, Volume 9
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Fighting for a Future Thorfinn and his crew are on their way to Greece, the first leg of...