CyberSpace: A CyberStorm Novel

Matthew Mather does it again with this exciting continuation of the Cyber series. Cyberspace picks up the same characters: Mike, Lauren, Chuck and Damon, a few years after the end of the first book, Cyberstorm. In this current tale, Mike and his friends are swept into international intrigue as a regional war between India and Pakistan heats up. Both are aiming at each others orbital satellites. Then suddenly, things explode much bigger... literally. Satellites are falling from the sky and cutting off the technology they help support in the process. Humanity becomes blind and unable to move as wildfires rage and hurricane season picks up, and as restless, scared people panic and riot. But is it just the collateral damage from the India/Pakistan War, or is there something more planned and precision going on? How could it be that Mike and his friends are AGAIN caught up in global events? What is coincidence and what is conspiracy? I enjoyed the whirlwind story very much. The excitement was page-turning and the storyline and character development riveting. Looking forward to the third edition to this series, Cyberwar.

Another very good story, with lots of action, great characters and a fast moving story. Looking forward to book 3 in this series.

Our favorite characters from CyberStorm are in the thick of it again as the sky falls around them. GPS is gone. Pakistan and India are lobbing missiles at each other and their satellites . The country has come to a stop as everyone learns the amazing number of devices and systems depend on the timing signals from the GPS satellites. Cellphones, navigation systems, aircraft tracking, almost all of the modern conveniences quit working. Paper maps might be found in antique shops, if you could figure out how to get there.The author's ability to instantly introduce a character that you know well. Great action and understandable technology kept me glued from the first page. The combination of brilliant characters, red hot action, and an amazing storyline produce a book that you can't pass up!

Gotta get the next one now! And amazingly, the ideas & concepts here are definitely conceivable. Reminds me a little of the "Terminator" movies.👍

Yikes!I thought the first book in this series was reality scary, but this one takes it to the next level. And then Mather throws in a big blob of mystery too. And a cliffhanger. Not that I’m cheap, but I was gonna wait until maybe the price of the third book came down a bit, but I don’t think I can wait for the next installment. OK, maybe I am cheap, but whatever.Mr. Mather says he reads each review, so this part is really for his eyes only. So, Matt, I live in Kentucky. Have all my long life. I have frequently traveled the roads and areas you describe in Tennessee and Kentucky. Did you not have access to a decent map, or even Google Maps? As a refresher on the Interstate Highway System, all east/west routes have even numbers (like I-40) and north/south routes have odd numbers (like I-65). I-40 starts at Wilmington NC and heads west, over the mountains into TN. It cuts across TN, through Nashville, then to Memphis, where it crosses the Mississippi River and continues west. I-40 goes nowhere near Bowling Green, KY, much less Lexington. I-65 runs north from Alabama, through Nashville, into KY, through Bowling Green, north to Louisville, where it crosses the Ohio River into Indiana, then up to Chicago. Also, the confluence of the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers is no where near Bowling Green. That is far to the west, near Paducah, at the point KY, IL, and MO meet. Finally, you had poor Vanceburg west of the fire raging in the Daniel Boone National Forest. Vanceburg is in northeastern KY, on the Ohio River. The Boone Forest lies much to the south of that location, not even a bit close to Vanceburg. Sorry to be so verbose, but details matter. I hope you will take a look at this and at least fix it in the e-book version.

Sorry Matthew you lost me on this one. The first book was so well written, it sucked you right In and held you there till the end. This one had way too much tech jargon. You could have taken half that out and written a other edge of your seat thriller.

I am a huge Matthew Mather fan and I have read a number of his books. CyberSpace is the continuing story of the characters from CyberStorm and the excitement just keeps coming. Six years after the initial event, main character Mike is on the move again with his friends Chuck and Damon, along with his son Luke. The plot and characters are clean and believable. The story is exciting and fun, but the science is real. The author does his research which makes the details more believable. Reading Mather is the highlight of my evening. I cannot wait for CyberWar to release.Lynne, retired librarian and bibliophile

A wonderful sequel and every bit as scary when you think about how much of our lives are dependent on the web.

It felt like the story was happening now

A great thriller with plenty of action and no shortage of unexpected twists, this is also very much a reminder of how much our society depends on certain technologies and what the consequences of those technologies failing, or being compromised, could be. The potential consequences are very scary indeed and the book describes this excellently while involving you in the characters stories.

After CyberStorm, Mather is back with a breezy, big budget summer blockbuster!Cyberspace is precient for our times, and the first novel read after / or during COVID-19. It's hard to know if Mather cribbed in some late edit mentions, but references to COVID the plauge and the parrallels to the current world climate is a welcome addition.CyberSpace though, as a second book so many years later does suffer from sequel bloat. It's the sequel that didn't have to be written and resets the characters and the world for the final third.In many ways CyberSpace feels like the start of a new 2 parter and yet, wraps itself up fully and satisfactorily as a complete novel.Just like many second movie, natural disaster big budget thriller C blockbusters, Cyberspace packs more: More action, more themes more adventure, spanning the total East Coast of America from Miami right up to Washington.Modern Americana mixes with thoughts about GPS technology, satellites and the world over reliance on mobile and remote autonomous systems, set at the height of summer with a backdrop of pending envriomental disasters, all wrapped up with some somewhat stereotyped characters, that non the less are entertaining to read.CyberStorm, was a slightly more controlled concise and slimmer story, set in winter with seudo horror/thriller themes and some very well written and subtle characters all living on top of each other. It felt as claustrophobic as it was meant to.Mather takes that idea and cracks it wide open. The story drags in the middle as the characters seemingly keep side tracking themselves, and "the bad guys" are obvious and cliched. Mather stops just short of: Lasers from space creating giant fires on Earth, however is well researched enough and with enough correct jargon to sound plausible.Just like the great disaster movies that came before, it is the human relationships, family and "ordinary Americans" that ground the story and provide heart.If you've seen the 4th DieHard movie, you more or less know what to expect, but Mather has provided a credible and enjoyable distraction at a time when the world, such as it is could use one. With no summer blockbusters this year, CyberSpace is the next best thing!

Bad guys attack satellite network, world in chaos, twists and turns as the good guys try to save the world. What more can you ask for? Another strong story from Mather. Recommend.

A welcome follow up to CyberStorm after some six years. This time our characters are attempting to return to Chuck' s Virginia cabin and Washington while India and Pakistan hover on the brink of nuclear war after an attack on satellite threatens to destroy all the world's satellites. A fast paced read that often gets a little too technical for a layman, nevertheless you're quickly reconnected with the characters, and the author succeeds in making the reader think about just how much of our daily lives are reliant on those potentially vulnerable satellites we take for granted.