Skin of Giants eBook Mike Cooley
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From the man who can’t get a strange buzzing noise out of his head, to one who can’t stop himself from killing, to the robot who wants to save his creator, Skin of Giants is full of strange and otherworldly stories. Stories of a girl that wants off the grid, and of an experiment gone horribly wrong. Stories about machines and men. Stories about love, loss, pain, joy, freedom, and forgiveness.
Skin of Giants eBook Mike Cooley
Old School Science Fiction short stories. Mike Cooley's writing is competent, even a bit playful with scientific terms: a plus.A recurring theme seems to be the lonely disembodied or re-embodied mind on a mission of suicide and/or escape. Mind-transfer as plot-element in many of these stories.
Some minor formatting glitches on my Kindle: irregular paragraph indentations, some not indented; some paragraphs have micro-spaces between them.
I am a difficult reader to please. While I was almost always clear about "what" was happening, I was often not clear about "why" it was happening. For example, in the Jen & Dav story, Jen goes off-grid at extreme danger to both of them; I wasn't clear about exactly what that even meant or why it was so important to her until much later in the story. More hints up front would have helped me identify with her.
I enjoyed THE UNBLINKING EYE.
"Roger, Phillip, Isaac, Robert, give me your power!"
@hg47
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Skin of Giants eBook Mike Cooley Reviews
Mike Cooley's mind definitely operates in several dimensions, because SKIN OF GIANTS is a mind-bending adventure-hop through a few of them.
Aliens...robots...scary high-tech machines controlling humans' every move...This collection of short stories has all of those, plus much more. Skillfully written and wildly imaginative, Skin of Giants is a good read for any sci-fi fan!
I thoroughly enjoyed this book! More than anything, it took me back to when I was reading Asimov's magazine as a kid, filled with shorts that all entertained me, and some that made me stop and think.
It has all the staples of Sci Fi menacing aliens of the interstellar kind, androids, and escapes from dystopic visions of the future. The stories are well-written, and told with a fresh spin.
At $0.99, it was a downright bargain. Definitely looking forward to more like this.
I really enjoyed this collection of stories, but it is the first story that really gripped me. The narrative is so vivid that I found myself feeling that it was at least semi-autobiographical. You don't usually get that accurate of a decription of events and settings unless the author has personally lived some version of the story in real life. This small book is a great companion for a plane ride. Perfect length, very entertaining and just enough thought provoking puzzles to leave you with some reflective moments after.
This single-author short story collection is clearly aimed at the seasoned science fiction fan. There are a number of recurring themes and tropes, such as robots and artificial intelligence (Blood and Wire, Evanesce), a reverence for the Mothers and Fathers of science fiction (Blood and Wire, Skin of Giants), the transference of consciousness (Transmute, Angela, Connections, Same As It Ever Was) and the wider-reaching theme of what a man is prepared to do for the woman that he loves (Evanesce, Angela, Connections).
Personal favourites include Blood and Wire, which starts out as a cliché-ridden science fiction story with its robots, space and time travel and alien's perception of Earthlings, and ends up in an unexpectedly clever and strangely poignant place; and Connections, which makes excellent use of realistically written dialogue to keep the reader's attention.
Mike Cooley's short story collection succeeds in paying homage to the masters and mistresses of Science-Fiction without aping them. The key to his success is that he understands what writers such as Ellison, Asimov and Bradbury were doing in their work. Namely that the robots, aliens, dream-states, parallel dimensions and so on were a means of exploring the human condition and everything that informs it. Here are stories that explore ethical dilemmas such as coping with the death of loved ones (Trasmute & Connections) and considering the impact of a single death on a wider scale (Blood and Wire). Here are stories about reality and how we can both shape it (Activation) and be, in turn, shaped by it if we give up our control in exchange for a passive existence (Evanesce). There are also vignette-length pieces (Angela & The Unblinking Eye) that create variety with stories that last for, and effectively capture, a moment. There are also stories like Desert Voices and The Flies Know that excel in their plain and simple weirdness. Lastly, there is the title story, my favourite in the collection, which explicitly salutes the great and the good of the Science-Fiction genre. It also acts as a paean to all speculative fiction and states beautifully why it is an important and vital part of our lives. There could have been no better way to close this powerful and concise work.
Don't waste your time. This book was so disjointed, it made me glad I was finished reading for the day.
Old School Science Fiction short stories. Mike Cooley's writing is competent, even a bit playful with scientific terms a plus.
A recurring theme seems to be the lonely disembodied or re-embodied mind on a mission of suicide and/or escape. Mind-transfer as plot-element in many of these stories.
Some minor formatting glitches on my irregular paragraph indentations, some not indented; some paragraphs have micro-spaces between them.
I am a difficult reader to please. While I was almost always clear about "what" was happening, I was often not clear about "why" it was happening. For example, in the Jen & Dav story, Jen goes off-grid at extreme danger to both of them; I wasn't clear about exactly what that even meant or why it was so important to her until much later in the story. More hints up front would have helped me identify with her.
I enjoyed THE UNBLINKING EYE.
"Roger, Phillip, Isaac, Robert, give me your power!"
@hg47
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