Cody Django Redmond
  • Home
  • About

science-fiction

A collection of 4 posts
books

The Peripheral

Woah. William Gibson's newest does not disappoint. A hard-edge sci-fi premise told with his signature style and grit. As usual, it requires a very close read, but the dividends are worth it. There really are so few authors who can follow-through so masterfully on such cool ideas. The impression I
Apr 14, 2017 1 min read
books

Handmaid's Tale

The first book I've read in 2017 is "The Handmaid's Tale" by Margaret Atwood. It's a work of speculative fiction set in the Republic of Gilead, a dystopic totalitarian theocracy which has taken control of a United States beset with environmental disasters and a plunging birthrate. Society has been restructured
Feb 11, 2017 1 min read
books

Science fiction

"He, She, and It" blew my mind. It's as cyberpunk as anything else I've read, but also deep in identity, emotion and mythology. Not to mention that the conceptions of the future (as written in 1991) are simply uncanny. I've since picked up "Women on the Edge of Time", written
Nov 29, 2015 1 min read
books

Cryptonomicon

Finally. Finished. This one took me a little while. Not necessarily a difficult read; definitely enthralling. The sheer volume of the book, with all the characters, places, timelines, histories, mythologies, is staggering. Stephenson weaves it together like a magician. Hard to belive this came out in 1999, it feels just
Sep 6, 2015
Page 1 of 1
Cody Django Redmond © 2025
  • Mastodon
  • Github
  • Twitter
  • Facebook
  • LinkedIn
  • Bandcamp
  • WeeklyBeats
Powered by Ghost