Days of Atonement

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Summary: Good Book!!
Review: A wonderful and exciting novel with a lot of surprises. Hard SF meets the Southwest Law and Williams makes it interesting all the way through.

Rating:
Summary: Good Book!!
Review: A wonderful and exciting novel with a lot of surprises. Hard SF meets the Southwest Law and Williams makes it interesting all the way through.

Rating:
Summary: An unlikely success.
Review: I didn't expect to like this book. In fact, I left it sitting on my pile for months before I gave it a chance. An unlikely combination of police procedural and hard science fiction, this novel somehow manages to pull it all together perfectly, making it one of Williams' best (which is saying a lot). Try it

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Summary: Excellent political/police-procedural/SF thriller
Review: Just a quick heads-up re this excellent New Mexico political/police-procedural/SF thriller, which I just reread.

It's a terrific page-turner -- kept me up til the small hours. I enjoyed it more the second time than the first -- I hadn't remembered it as being so good, and put it on the reread pile after someone online commented on how good the book is.

This is as good a portrayal of red rage as you're likely to see anywhere.

There are nits to pick -- a 3 digit code to unlock the heavies' Uzis! -- but they won't bother you during the read.

This was WJW's "crossover" novel before The Rift, and it's a far, far better book -- one of his best. Don't miss. Out of print, but readily available.

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Summary: Not his best
Review: This is not as exciting as Walter John Williams' more outrageous far-future space opera, and no where near as good as the more cyberpunkish Hardwired; it does read more like a police procedural equipped with sci fi style stock characters. And of course, time travel. Near-future stuff like this doesn't age well--I particularly liked the scene where the scientist asks the policeman "do you know how to use a mouse?" but this does flow fairly well, and has its heart in the right place. A must for Williams fans anyway.