Random Acts of Senseless Violence
by Jack Womack
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appears in Dystopian, Science Fiction, and Science.
With his vivid, stylized prose, cyberpunk intensity, and seemingly limitless imagination, Jack Womack has been compared to both William Gibson and Kurt Vonnegut though Gibson admits, "If you dropped the characters from Neuromancer into Womack's Manhattan, they'd fall down screaming and have nervous breakdowns". Random Acts of Senseless Violence, ...
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appears in Dystopian, Science Fiction, and Science.
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