Tag: cyberpunk

• Review: A Calculated Life (Kindle Edition)

  I’m finding it hard to quite distil what A Calculated Life is actually about without constant referrals to the Amazon blurb. There’s a lot of hints from what I’ve read so far – about a dystopian police state with a “compliant population free of addictions”; very Orwellian, with a tinge of I, Robot, with genetically-engineered…

  Richard Holliday

  September 8, 2015

  Reviews

  cyberpunk, kindle, sci-fi

• Short Story: Traffic

  Trafficby Richard Holliday 1,888 words Fans whirred in the server hall. It was raining outside but here the weather never faltered from a dry warmth. The detritus of packing crates filled the floor. In ill-fitting, standard issue navy-blue jumpers, a couple of technicians unplugged their diagnostics equipment and stood back, with one’s finger poised above…

  Richard Holliday

  January 26, 2015

  Writing

  cyberpunk, kindle, short stories

• Short Story: Colour Blind

  Colour Blind by Richard Holliday 1,611 words Neophytes aren’t born as such, rather they’re gestated then emerge into the wilderness that is the world. They start their lives very much as they will continue them – as an incomparable bond of chromosomes and machined parts. Nothing more, nothing less. The sentinels of what’s left of…

  Richard Holliday

  October 10, 2014

  Writing

  cyberpunk, kindle, sci-fi, short stories