Galactic Literature

The Stars My Destination (Alfred Bester) ---»

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Out of control media empire expansion bulletin! Unbridled aggression designed by machines funneled through human flesh! Fight the Order! A classic of the struggle to Entropize freedom. A good re-read, also, now that there are about twenty years of cyberpunk lit behind us. Kind of reminiscent of Spinrads Agents of Chaos, if it had been [...]

V. (Thomas Pynchon) ---»

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No, not V for Vendetta, as most readers, or readers of palmpilot blackberry ebooks, under the age of 30 might identify it as. V as in Thomas Pynchon. This V is a mysterious entity, the target of a search by Pynchonesque characters. After a recent re-reading of V, I was awed at the artifice of [...]