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    Strictly Analog
    Strictly Analog
    Strictly Analog
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    Strictly Analog

    By Richard Levesque

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    Fans of William Gibson, Jonathan Letham, and Richard K. Morgan will enjoy Strictly Analog by Richard Levesque.

    What's a private detective to do in a future where nothing is private any more?

    For Ted Lomax, the answer is to find clients who need their info kept off the grid, and that's what Ted has done for years, skirting the high tech that runs the new California and living on the fringes of society. But when his daughter is accused of murdering her boyfriend–an agent in the Secret Police–Ted has to dig himself out of the hole he's been in for years in order to save her.

    Before long, he's pulled into a shadow world of underground hackers, high-end programmers, and renegade gear-heads, all of whom seem to have a stake in California's future. The further he digs into the case, the clearer it becomes that it's about more than one dead agent. Solving it might save his daughter. And it might get him killed. And it just might open the door to secrets that reach back to the attack that almost killed him eighteen years before. At any rate, Ted Lomax will never be the same.

    "…fast-paced futuristic thriller…"–Publishers Weekly*

    "…a well-crafted story with realistic characters we can root for in a hard-boiled landscape…It's a story that should appeal to fans of early Gibson or Sterling. And now that our world is much closer to the cyberpunk vision of tomorrow that was forecast decades ago, the story should appeal to contemporary detective fiction fans too. Strictly Analog is highly recommended."–The New Poddler Review of Books

    *This review was of the manuscript version submitted to Amazon's Breakout Novel Awards competition in 2012.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRichard Levesque
    Release dateFeb 10, 2015
    ISBN9781507092767
    Strictly Analog
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    Richard Levesque

    Richard Levesque has spent most of his life in Southern California. For the last several years he has taught composition and literature, including science fiction, as part of the English Department at Fullerton College. When not writing or grading papers, he works on his collection of old science fiction pulps and spends time with his wife and daughter.

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    • 5/5
      I really loved this book! Like the author (who mentions this at the end of the book), I have a real love of noir detective stories, and pairing them with sci-fi and/or fantasy stories. I was immediately pulled into the time and place of this book, and immediately rooting for our damaged but resourceful PI. The characters are great, the story is fast-paced, and the virtual world intriguingly realized. I'm not sure if there are more books about him, but I'm off to find out! Highly recommended if you like a scifi/mystery combination.
    • 5/5
      I paid for this book. I do not get paid to review. It was a very solid 4 to 4.5 star book. It has a hint of noir, a hint of detective work, and a hint of future fiction. I am not sure why so many familiar reviewers, who normally like similar books to me slammed this so hard.It is not deep fiction. It is not traditional sci-fi. It is investigator/detective fiction with a sci-fi tech component that is treated like it is a perfectly normal component of the world the story is set in. Actually, if you like Patrick Lee's Travis Chase series - this is pretty much the same kind of mystery-sci-fi blend.The pacing is good. It is not graphic and there is no sex or swearing. I did check to see if there are other books in this series and if there were, I would have bought them.

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    • 4/5
      Very enjoyable read! The main characters are strange and likable. The mystery is intriguing and the story moves along nicely. It is never boring. I especially like the way the author describes various futuristic aspects of the story in such a way that I did not feel overwhelmed by the terminology. He dwelt on the concepts enough for me to get a firm idea. This was a wild story told clearly with a smooth style making it engaging rather than dizzying.

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