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Ack-Ack Macaque (Ack-Ack Macaque, #1)

Gareth L. Powell

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Jun 14, 2013 Ruby Tombstone Lives! rated it it was amazing

Shelves: wheres-my-effing-jetpack, biologys-a-bitch-baby, steampunkatorium, spec-lit, monkeys-with-guns, treasure-hunt-scorers

A WWII flying-ace gun-toting monkey. An alternative history steampunk story, set in a speculative future Paris. A well-written cyberpunk noir action adventure. Ninjas.

If that isn't enough for you, what MORE do you want?!

via Painting The Monkey on the author's blog

Seriously. This book is fantastic fun and lacks for nothing in the writing department. There are two quite original premises.... which I won't mention here, because it would spoil the fun. Discovering the central ideas early on in the b ...more

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Jul 18, 2022 Bradley rated it really liked it

Shelves: transhumanism, 2022-shelf, sci-fi

I'm of two minds on this one. I, like so many others before me, fell in LOVE with the concept. I mean, the cover has it all. WWII ace flying monkey with intrigue and mayhem. It just feels funky cool.

He's there, mind you, and he is exactly that, with a few caveats, but the majority of the novel isn't that.

That's where my other mind comes in, and while I'm not precisely disappointed, I do feel like I've been slightly bait-and-switched to a competent cyberpunk-noir SF with some fairly high Altered ...more

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