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The Crying of Lot 49 is a novel written by American author Thomas Pynchon and …
I seem to recall enjoying vineland more, but this was still amazing.
THE BOOK OF THE CENTURY
The Return. of the King is the third volume in J.R.R. Tolkien's epic adventure The …
One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them, One Ring to bring them all and in the …
Robert A. Heinlein wrote The Number of the Beast, which was published in 1980. In …
yeah, this book is really good, I guess there is a reason that so many people feel fondly about it, like the characters are friendly to each other and seem concern about each other. Its pretty refreshing.
The war raged across the galaxy. Billions had died, billions more were doomed. Moons, planets, …
I don't know why I was under the impression that this was a super important part of the sci fi cannon. It had some interesting imagery in it, but it was pretty silly action movie sequences for the large part. I am curious how the culture grows in the other books though, there were enough of these written that some in them must have stuck.
The Power is a 2016 science fiction novel by the British writer Naomi Alderman. Its …
interesting flip of the handmaids tale.
Twelve-year-old Sunny Nwazue, an American-born albino child of Nigerian parents, moves with her family back to Nigeria, where she learns …
In 2014, Theranos founder and CEO Elizabeth Holmes was widely seen as the female Steve Jobs: a brilliant Stanford dropout …
White Noise is the eighth novel by Don DeLillo, published by Viking Press in 1985. …
I found this simultaneously a slog and super fascinating. The arc of the story reminded me of Ballard in a bunch of ways, it became increasingly hallucinatory as it went on, and was never truly grounded in the first place. Though it wallowed in mundanity in a way that reminded me of Ionesco for the first part of the book. I don't know that I could recommend it, and it possibly turned me off DeLillo forever, but its really hard to say. I think that there are moments from it that will stick with me for a long time, and that's really all I can ask for in a book.
Roy Complain lives in a culturally-primitive tribe in which curiosity is discouraged and life is solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and …
The Ballad of Black Tom is a 2016 fantasy/horror novella by Victor LaValle, revisiting H. …
I enjoyed this, a really good flip of HP Lovecraft, making the race that is always implied central to the story, and addressing it directly.
Set against the backdrop of China's Cultural Revolution, a secret military project sends signals into space to establish contact with …
When a murdered woman is found in the city of Beszel, somewhere at the edge of Europe, it looks to …
One–time professional gambler Scott Crane hasn't returned to Las Vegas, or held a hand of …
While this doesn't knock declare off as my favorite tim powers book, this one is more straight forward about his technique. The structure was more bare, closely following campbell style monomyth. There were no allusions about the fact that these were gods operating in vegas.
There was some pretty undigestible homophobia in the book. It was a character flaw, but felt like it was written in the 70s, rather than being set in the 70s.
