Rave Reviews for The Big God Network

Early reviews are in for J.C. McGowan's science-fiction novel The Big
God Network, which blends cyberpunk adventure, cosmic mysticism and
political satire, and is available at amazon.

BOOK REVIEW from Celtoid9 at amazon:
McGowan's narrative is a multicultural melange that maintains its
sharpness, humor and edge at every turn, with an occasional romp in
the hay thrown in to spice up the narrative. Readers should be ready
and willing to travel anywhere at a moment's notice, because Big God
Network will take them to far-flung corners of the world at a
breakneck pace, from Bali and Tokyo to LA and then back to cyberspace
again. Fans of the cyberpunk masters, such as William Gibson and Bruce
Sterling, will be right at home here. This book has it all -- virtual
reality, New Age spirituality, cybersex, UFOs, extraterrestrials, tele-
cyber-evangelists, Yakuza -- and then some. The brisk pacing keeps the
pages turning rapidly. I loved this book, and was sorry to see it end.

BOOK REVIEW from astrophysicist and science-fiction author Mike
Brotherton: Interesting and entertaining...Insightful political
commentary.

BOOK REVIEW from Brian Keith at amazon:
McGowan's excellent debut sci-fi novel is a good take on the concept
of self -awareness on the net, mixed with the depressing specter of
End-timers running the government. He keeps it light with very aptly
named products and corporate mergers of the future. The line between
reality and virtual worlds is convincingly blurred as the story
unfolds and the action is well written and fast paced.

PRAISE FROM Robert Winters:
Loved THE BIG GOD NETWORK. Viva Pacifica! Let the secession begin!

BOOK REVIEW FROM RHMMM at amazon:
It is written in an extremely tight, quickly intercut cinematic style
that is new and refreshing…As in any great work by Vonnegut, Heinlein,
or Leven…multiple plotlines gradually merge up until the stunning
conclusion, when the characters come together in a grand Fellini-style
finale of both mayhem and resolution. The author must have used a
complex flowchart in order to make sense of his many narrative
threads, and yet, for the reader, the flow is smooth and effortless.

BOOK REVIEW from Baz at amazon:
What a good read!. J.C. McGowan takes the cultural wars going on in
the USA today to their logical conclusion. In a not-too-distant future
the USA has split, literally, into red and blue states. There is the
saintly Pacifica, containing California, Oregon etc (think of a
country run by the radio network of the same name and you're pretty
close) and then there's the sinister Jesus-land of N'Am (New America),
a run-down heartland hell-on-earth run by and for cynical
televangelist plutocrats. This makes for truly compulsive reading for
religion-obsessed conspiracy theorists... (awright, I admit it). But
it's also a real page-turner, with a nice sci-fi mystery, and it's
very funny. The purple passages of randy (but virtual) sexual
encounters had me hooting. Everything is gloriously over the top here,
but the author just gleefully glides you along, and his subtle comic
barbs just get sharper.

BOOK REVIEW from author Marc Ladewig (Odysseus: The Epic Myth of the
Hero) at amazon:
The Big God Network is written in a page turning style. The scenes
flow quickly like cuts in an action movie. The story is a romp,
jumping back and forth from Bali to Japan to California, and it is
fun...But there is an aspect to this first novel of J.C. McGowan which
lifts it above the mere level of comedy and elevates it to true social
commentary. “Virtual Reality As Obsession” is handled with deep
insight and compassion, psychologically and socially. The nausea of
artificiality and yearning for real life experience and true love of
the character Takeshi ring true not only in the novel but also in our
day and age as well among video game addicted thirty-somethings...The
Big God Network is an excellent vacation read while sitting on a beach
sipping something tall and cool.

PRAISE FROM RE-VO, the Mad Prophet of Rock:
BGN blew me away. It's exciting, funny, sometimes poignant, and always
witty. It uses the powerful medium of sci-fi to make numerous
statements about important global transformation issues, from ecology
through oppression through fundamentalist dogma....It’s the best sci-
fi since Vonnegut.

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