Review: An impressive first ef"Furtl" from the author!  @badwordplay
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 04 2, 2014
First of all, I have to say that I was really stoked to read a book that “Tricky” Witherspoon called, “I have no son”.  With a recommendation like that, how could I NOT check it out?!furtl’s business model as the premier search engine and social network in the world, is in jeopardy, thanks to Holospace Machines, a Chinese super-company.  furtl doesn’t want to go out of business, obviously, so they turn to the US government to outlaw Holospace.  All the government wants in return, is total access to all information that every user that furtl has ever had, ever ever.You know how Law & Order will have 3 or 4 episodes in a year that are “Ripped From The Headlines”?  And some are kind of obscure, but then they have one where Jichael Mackson is accused of touching kids, and caught on fire while shooting a Gepsi commercial?  The main premise is like that.  furtl is Google, China is China, the US is the US, and Holospace is… the next Google?  Not sure about that one.  But I don’t want it to seem like a bad thing, because it’s a really interesting and well written story, that casts a light into situations that are a lot closer to a possible future than we should be comfortable with.  Yes, it does take these ideas to the hyperbolic extreme, but you can easily see something in real life that seems to be “Ripped From The Pages Of Furtl” in the not too distant future.This is a very interesting read, from start to finish.  While the subject matter takes it to the almost comical extreme, it is still worth the read.