9/18/2023 0 Comments Download save eclipse fate hollowCIA agent Stoner has to ally himself with similar undesirable leftists when he, in the course of his work, comes across SA's grand plan for post World War Three Europe - and the efforts to purge the CIA of blacks and other minorities. I also noticed quite a few examples of pairs of characters developing certain themes: Colony Security Chief Russ Parker has to ally himself against Marxists and anarchists to defeat SA fascism. Shirely makes references to bulletin board services, but the efforts of Smoke and Witcher and Kessler and others center on going through the established, centralized media outlets and exposing SA propaganda and getting their own aired. Spoilers follow.Reading this novel the second time around the aspect I found most dated, even though it was published after William Gibson's Neuromancer which anticipated some aspects of the Internet, was its lack of vision of distributed media, specifically distributed media made possible by the Internet. My reactions to reading this novel in 2002.
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