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Electricland
Set in late 2008, "Electricland" satirically describes a large scale terrorist operation that goes wrong and the damage control put into effect in Los Angeles. The terrorist cell of seven brilliant middle aged women, known as the Seven Sirens, use hackers and gamers in the massively multiplayer online role-playing game online game called "Electricland" to wreak havoc in and terrorize secure networks. The hackers and gamers think they're playing a game while they're really being played by the Seven Sirens. Until one of the hackers gets cocky and all hell breaks loose. Contains adult content.
224 pages, Kindle Edition
First published May 6, 2010
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Ginger Mayerson
78 books9 followersGinger Mayerson lives in Los Angeles, California. She's published in the Coe Review, Roux Magazine, The Velvet Mafia, and The Journal of the Image Warehouse. Originally trained as a composer, she now writes novels, poetry, essays, reviews, interviews, makes collages, and edits the Journal of the Lincoln Heights Literary Society and publishes books and magazines at the Wapshott Press in her spare time. You can find the Hackenbush scene at http://hackenbush.net. Or you can get the whole story at gingermayerson.com.
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October 1, 2010
Electric land has a little bit of everything action, romance, suspense. Electric land is about a large scale terrorist operation that goes wrong. And the damage control that is used in Los Angeles to correct the problem. The terrorist cell is made up of seven middle aged women. They are known as the seven sirens. They use hackers,and gamers in a massively multi player online role playing game called Electric land to cause havoc and terrorize supposedly secure networks. The gamers and hackers think thet,re playing a game while they are really being used by the seven sirens.Until one of the hackers gets to smart for his own good and he figures out what is really going on .with Electric land .Than all hell breaks loose. really enjoyed the book.a must read for all who love this genre.
November 23, 2010
I recently finished Ginger Mayerson’s Electricland, and I’m still not quite sure what to make of it. The main characters are a team of middle aged, female terrorists and some kid named Drew. The women want to either kill Drew or get the information that he took from them, possibly both. Drew just wants to forget about the recent craziness in his life and spend time with the man he has come to love.
My main problem with Electricland has got to be the lack of connection I felt towards the characters. I was not engaged in their stories or what was happening to them. The focus on Drew’s sex life was off putting and totally gratuitous. He felt like he could have been a pretty nifty character, they all did, but he didn’t have any real presence. The characters were static. There was an attempt at character growth with Viola, but it felt forced and read awkwardly. There was a good deal of Los Angeles getting blown up and much vague talk of the characters’ pasts, but not a lot in the plot department. The set up of the text was awkward, jumping from Titania explaining points to her supervisors to flashbacks which made up the meat of the novel, it was a bit jarring. Even the eponymous Electricland itself was a bit of a letdown because nothing was really done with it. All said and done, I found Electricland to be more effort than it was worth; it just isn’t my cup of tea. I will however try other books written by Mayerson for comparison.
My main problem with Electricland has got to be the lack of connection I felt towards the characters. I was not engaged in their stories or what was happening to them. The focus on Drew’s sex life was off putting and totally gratuitous. He felt like he could have been a pretty nifty character, they all did, but he didn’t have any real presence. The characters were static. There was an attempt at character growth with Viola, but it felt forced and read awkwardly. There was a good deal of Los Angeles getting blown up and much vague talk of the characters’ pasts, but not a lot in the plot department. The set up of the text was awkward, jumping from Titania explaining points to her supervisors to flashbacks which made up the meat of the novel, it was a bit jarring. Even the eponymous Electricland itself was a bit of a letdown because nothing was really done with it. All said and done, I found Electricland to be more effort than it was worth; it just isn’t my cup of tea. I will however try other books written by Mayerson for comparison.
May 17, 2012
In her novel Electricland Ms. Mayerson has a character ask, “can any of you remember any of the middle-aged women you have met recently well enough to describe her and identify her?” The answer is of course no. This provides the stealth technology for the world’s most effective violence for hire group.
In the events described they seem to be working for an unnamed organization that is interested in keeping the US just slightly destabilized in this wonderful dystopian near future tale. The situation has been complicated in this case by a “romantic error” that required a lot of footwork and a staggering body count to correct.
If you can imagine a somewhat brighter Tom Clancy gone to the dark side writing in a Larry Niven gamer world you will have a good idea of just how much fun Ms. Mayerson had with this book. It is a "ultra-violence" chronology of the post 9/11 landscape. Written with nihilistic delight the story has a nice subtext of interaction between the players with a soupcon of eclectic eroticism for the adult reader.
Like all of Ms. Mayerson’s novels it can be read on many levels but first and foremost it is a thumping good read that I enjoyed hugely.
In the events described they seem to be working for an unnamed organization that is interested in keeping the US just slightly destabilized in this wonderful dystopian near future tale. The situation has been complicated in this case by a “romantic error” that required a lot of footwork and a staggering body count to correct.
If you can imagine a somewhat brighter Tom Clancy gone to the dark side writing in a Larry Niven gamer world you will have a good idea of just how much fun Ms. Mayerson had with this book. It is a "ultra-violence" chronology of the post 9/11 landscape. Written with nihilistic delight the story has a nice subtext of interaction between the players with a soupcon of eclectic eroticism for the adult reader.
Like all of Ms. Mayerson’s novels it can be read on many levels but first and foremost it is a thumping good read that I enjoyed hugely.
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