Cult Literature
The Time Travelers Wife (Audrey Niffenegger) ---»
...Audrey Niffenegger is a truly wonderful writer, and can create highly psychological science fiction right up there along the lines of the most intense victorian mind-game plans. The Time Travelers Wife taxes the ability of a journalistic style but she pulls it off. Lo, the days of having to pseudoname yourself to be taken seriously [...]
Four Novels of the 1960s: The Man in the High Castle , The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch , Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? , Ubik (Philip K. Dick) ---»
...Ecstasy! Jonathan Lethem is channeling philip k. dick in this upcoming volume for the Library of America (yes, it sounds like Voice of America.. and it was started with NEA seed money in 1982.. perhaps to fight the Great Threat of Russian Literature trying to Swamp Americas Patriotic Heritage), but who cares about that. These [...]
The Solid Confessor: Science Fiction Classics (Eckonesbit) ---»
...Ab.So.Lute.Ly. Demented. This book has awesome art and is crazy. If you open it like the I-Ching, and start reading anywhere, it says something demented. The back-copy marketing-goo says its like textual arcology, and yes. It is. As far as I have been able to figure out, its kind of like reading that early Russell [...]
Vineland (Thomas Pynchon) ---»
...This is an excellent book by Pynchon, in the true Steinbeck vein. Nobody has been able to put on paper a truer manifestation of life in California from the 60s to the 80s. Its the best of fictional politics insofar as politics are a fiction designed by people pretending to be non fiction. The writing [...]
