Member Since: Oct. 06, 2012

Joe Woodhouse

Biography

Joe Woodhouse is an IT consultant in Melbourne, Australia. He works with Sybase enterprise database software and information & data architecture generally.

http://joewoodhouse.brandyourself.com/

Smashwords book reviews by Joe Woodhouse

  • We Were Gods on March 01, 2014

    One sentence summary: if Iain M Banks and Iain Banks had collaborated on a novel, it might be very much like "We Were Gods". Feinman's timing is prescient. The books contains many social controls and surveillance opportunities from high technology and they read like the Snowden-leaked catalog of NSA techniques yet this was written and published earlier. Uncanny coincidence, or the mark of a thoughtful writer with insights into the implications of technology? I haven't seen this much attention and detail given to social consequences since some of Larry Niven's work, although more recently Charles Stross comes close. It reads a bit like some Cory Doctorow titles, in that there are in-jokes and references for tech-savvy people, but it is accessible and enjoyable without relying on that insider knowledge. This absolutely lives up to and builds on the promise of Feinman's first work, "Duplicate" - also highly recommended. Trigger warnings for sex and (sensitively done and plot-relevant) sexual violence.