Jack Womack
Author of Random Acts of Senseless Violence
About the Author
Image credit: Jack Womack at the Shirley Jackson Award Benefit at the KGB Bar on June 23, 2008.
Series
Works by Jack Womack
Out Of Sight Out Of Mind 3 copies
That Old School Tie [short fiction] 3 copies
Audience 2 copies
Lifeblood 1 copy
Associated Works
The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction May/June 2012, Vol. 122, Nos. 5 & 6 (2012) — Contributor — 21 copies
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Common Knowledge
- Canonical name
- Womack, Jack
- Birthdate
- 1956-01-08
- Gender
- male
- Nationality
- USA
- Birthplace
- Lexington, Kentucky, USA
- Places of residence
- Lexington, Kentucky, USA (birth)
New York, New York, USA - Education
- Transylvania University
- Occupations
- author
publicist
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Reviews
Womack was recommended to me as being a good writer, and this is the first book of his I've attempted, so I can only imagine that it must not be one of his better books. An alternate-universe, alternate-history, cyberpunk-themed book in which the protagonists often talk in a dreary newspeak and in which, despite reaching near the top in a corporate hell, they are too stupid to realize that they are being taken advantage of in ways that the reader notices immediately. I can see that Womack has talent, but this book, despite occasional moments in which he shows what he can do, is a failure.… (more)
By far the best of Womack's dystopian NYC novels. This one is less SF than the others, and is focused entirely on the misfortunes of a teenage girl whose parents fall on hard times. An excellent, very believable urban drama.
What a great book, a near future telling of the demise of US society told through the eyes of a young girl. Moving, gripping and thought provoking, I loved every page.
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- Works
- 12
- Also by
- 12
- Members
- 1,951
- Popularity
- #13,191
- Rating
- 3.7
- Reviews
- 22
- ISBNs
- 67
- Languages
- 6
- Favorited
- 8
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