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Hieroglyph-Inspired by New York Times bestselling author Neal Stephenson, an anthology of stories, set in the near future that reignites …
The Fireman is a post-apocalyptic novel by American author Joe Hill. The novel, his fourth, …
This is a book about a particularly hard pregnancy.
The protagonist has to cope with losing her job, an abusive partner, abandoning her home, contracting a potentially fatal disease, being shot at (multiple times), overly earnest singing, the downfall of civilisation, food poisoning, dire straits (the band), persecution by fanatics, persecution by rednecks, betrayal, the death of JK Rownling, falling in love with someone from liverpool, a drastic enforced haircut - as well as all the regular stuff that makes pregnancy such an easy comfortable experience.
With penetrating insights for today, this vital history of the world economic collapse of the late 1920s offers unforgettable portraits …
Jean le Flambeur gets up in the morning and has to kill himself before his other self can kill him …
The Dark Forest (Chinese: 黑暗森林, pinyin: Hēi'àn sēnlín) is a 2008 science fiction novel by the Chinese writer Liu Cixin. …
"Quentin Coldwater's life is changed forever by an apparently chance encounter: when he turns up for his entrance interview to …
Within the context of the Chinese Cultural Revolution, a military project sends messages to alien worlds. A nearby alien society …
"From the internationally bestselling author of The Psychopath Test, a captivating and brilliant exploration of one of our world's most …
"...for all our high ideals, we were merely pretexts for debt; debt was our contribution, debt was how we created wealth... Without debt, all we have is our data. We are data beasts in some fucking zoo, and it's just a matter of which specimens are required, which pairs are to be bred."
On the world called Hyperion, beyond the reach of galactic law, waits a creature called the Shrike. There are those …
Favourite idea: “... the Euthanasia Coaster, 'a humane, elegant, and euphoric solution,' in his own words, for those who have chosen to end their lives. ... It featured seven loops, each tighter than the one before, propelling the rider through successive degrees of g-force acceleration until a final, inescapable death. It was designed to give its riders a diverse range of experiences from euphoria to thrill to tunnel vision to loss of consciousness and, eventually, to the end result: death.”
The Peripheral is a 2014 science fiction mystery-thriller novel by William Gibson. The story involves …
started and abandoned this book at least 3 times. Super tough to get into, and then part way through something clicks and you're in. And to be honest, I kind of like that about this book.
I think it will probably take another read or so before I'm ready to pass judgement...
