I like literary fiction and speculative fiction.
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Slough House is Jackson Lamb's kingdom; a dumping ground for members of the intelligence service who've screwed up: left a …
Slough House is Jackson Lamb's kingdom; a dumping ground for members of the intelligence service who've screwed up: left a …
There is a Wild Man who lives in the deep quiet of Greenhollow, and he listens to the wood. Tobias, …
"As a heartless killing machine, I was a complete failure."
In a corporate-dominated spacefaring future, …
Reread this after getting an ebook copy for free from Tor a while back (thanks, Tor!) It's a neatly packaged little story about a robot who hacks its own systems for independence: not to kill all humans (though it could if it wanted to) but just to be left alone.
Bill Bryson describes his attempt to walk the Appalachian Trail with his friend "Stephen Katz". …
Picked this up to reread (after more than a decade) while in the vicinity of the AT. Somehow makes months of hiking sound awful and yet at the same time something that I might want to do some day.
Bill Bryson describes his attempt to walk the Appalachian Trail with his friend "Stephen Katz". The book is written in …
Edwin St. Andrew is eighteen years old when he crosses the Atlantic by steamship, exiled from polite society following an …
Edwin St. Andrew is eighteen years old when he crosses the Atlantic by steamship, exiled …
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Really enjoyed this short novel that jumps between historical and future time periods, taking in a few characters from The Glass Hotel on the way. It's clearly a COVID-19 novel and perhaps part of Mandel's processing of having authored a pandemic novel before we had to live through the real thing, but in a way that doesn't feel like a knee-jerk 'I must write about my 2020 life' response. A book that is heavily influenced by David Mitchell's Cloud Atlas - in a good way! - and a little touch of Robert Heinlein too.
Edwin St. Andrew is eighteen years old when he crosses the Atlantic by steamship, exiled from polite society following an …
Enjoyed this road trip across the USA of the 1950s.
