校泻褉邪褩薪褋褜泻懈泄 芯谐谢褟写 薪懈卸褔械 (Ukrainian language review is below)
This is a Ukrainian cyberpunk, titled Cyber-Junk: Neon Stories . And it's definitely cool, because we in Ukrainian SFF still lack the diversity of fiction subgenres that we see in the conventional West (from London to Tokyo).
The book consists of two parts. Part One, The Sector of Enlightenment, is a story about a hacker who, at the beginning of the book, strangely loses his girlfriend, then seems to find her and, together with her, searches for answers to what happened. The plot is interesting, the story moves quickly, and it's a good escapism. At the same time, the world is somewhat primitive: the constant reminder that the hero eats synthetic foods (if this is the norm, then you shouldn't focus on it so much); there are two networks - Globalnet and Neuronet, and it's unclear why the second one exists, except for the neuroplayers to connect to it; the hacking is very simple, the characters break any defenses without even straining the question arises, if they are so good at it, why they didn't draw a lot of money and work for a pittance; killing opponents to speed up the plot w/o consequences...
Part Two - The Synchronization Sector is a set of stories set in the same world, sometimes with characters from the first part. Again, it's easy to read, but sometimes a loner fighting corporations has the ability to make several robots in a short time that are better than what entire corporate teams are working on (and the loner is not a 鈥渕ad genius scientist鈥� specializing in this), sometimes combat robots are easily turned off by an EMP device (again, not some unique equipment but an ordinary tool there), sometimes, imitating in turn the American imitation of Japanese films, one of the heroines with a katana confronts a number of opponents with firearms...