Hunting Gideon
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Tracking hackers and crackers for the FBI's National Infrastructure Protection Center may look like a video game to an outsider, but the outcome of the play is deadly serious. Through her online feline avatar, Sekhmet, Sue Anne Jones stalks the V-Net, the ultimate virtual-reality interface, in pursuit of evil in all its online forms. Her partner, ex-cracker Loren Hunter, provides cynical commentary along with his expertise in the V-Net's shadier alleys.
Their days of busting routine identity thieves and insidious corporate spies end when they get a new assignment: Hunt down a cyber-terrorist calling himself "Gideon," who has infiltrated the financial system and murdered the supervisor of an automated factory. Now Gideon is sending taunting messages, quoting scripture, and warning Sue that she must join his crusade or suffer--along with the rest of the virtual world--when he takes total control of the V-Net.
Jessica Draper
Jessica Draper is the author of the Last Days adventure trilogy: Seventh Seal, Rising Storm, and Final Hour. A bibliophile and wannabe librarian, she landed unexpectedly in the wired world. After several years of writing software documentation--which sometimes qualifies as speculative fiction--she left the tech industry to become an instructional designer creating multimedia courseware. Her latest novel Hunting Gideon and its upcoming prequel, Dancing with Eddie D'Eath, represent additional forays into a not-so-distant future, simultaneously fantastic and believable.
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Reviews for Hunting Gideon
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- Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5Short and sweet: Draper was unable to distance herself sufficiently from her own Mormon worldview to create a believable work of fiction. At greater length: It honestly took me almost two years to force myself to finish this. I was initially intrigued by the premise of this book, but somehow missed that it was by a Mormon author, from a Mormon press, about a Mormon agent. Unfortunately, on receiving the book I was slammed repeatedly over the head with Mormonism such that I, too, was utterly unable to distance myself from the author's Mormon-based worldview.There are two main problems here--setting/plot, and characterization. Cyberpunk is noir futurism. Hunting Gideon is Mormon not-very-futurism. Yes, it deals with computer technology and culture, but Draper substitutes the cynical, paranoid future of the noir / cyberpunk with a stereotyped sunny Mormon worldview. Here, those in authority aren't to be feared or mistrusted or viewed with justified cynicism; they are to be honored, valorized, respected, and obeyed. This can work if played as a dystopia, but not so much in the mystery / suspense plots traditionally paired with cyberpunk settings. Characterization. I have to spare a moment on the gender issues. Way too cute and, again, the author has failed to remove herself from her worldview enough to create a believable set of characters, instead shading into wish-fulfillment of the Twilight variety. I was hopeful when the story began that the wisecracking agent would transcend the stereotype, and there were some nods in that direction initially. But those nods never materialized into any depth of exploration, and ultimately the characters remained simple cut-outs. I give the book two stars because the prose was readable albeit clunky, meaning, not painful to read and not illiterate -- that gets a star -- and the book didn't greatly offend me -- another star.
- Rating: 1 out of 5 stars1/5I accidentally deleted this review. I remember that I didn't finish the book. I tried numerous times but never got past the first 10 pages. I found the writing style hard to read and I couldn't suspend my disbelief to get into the novel in the first place.
- Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5This was a fairly quick read and the plot was okay. nothing overly gripping but mildly entertaining. As a non-mormon that is fairly familiar with the religion I did not find the overtly religiousness of the book distracting. What was distracting is the language. The book is overly descriptive and I found the over-abundance of adjectives almost annoying. Unfortunately I found myself focusing more on the language than the plot. I think the author was just trying to hard to write like an author rather than finding her own voice.All in all not a horrible read but definitely no the best the genre has to offer.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5A light, quick read among visuals of a VR world. While this was no Johnny Mnemonic it was an interesting version of the future. There was something missing in the depth to me, I could not get fully invested. The cover art is striking and very fitting.