History Literature

The Wooden Sea: A Novel (Jonathan Carroll) ---»

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Small towns. Police chiefs. Resurrected dogs. Like TC Boyle, Jonathan Carroll is part history, part personal bard, but with an additional mixture of scifi and magical realism. The Wooden Sea is an excellent purview of what life in a small upstate new york town might be like if Neil Turoks physics were in charge of [...]

The White Voyage (John Christopher) ---»

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An excellent adventure set in earlier times. Along the lines of Jack London, The White Voyage is about a ships crew, with all the psychological suspicion and tension of a submarine crew locked underwater, turns into a shipwreck, and a struggle northward. – reviewed by kreya

Worlds End (T.C. Boyle) ---»

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For those who enjoy aging, woods-dwelling mycologistic retired history professors exhibiting signs of hyper-intelligence coupled with excessively talented storytelling and liberally doused with 100 proof perception, even when they have given up the ghosts and moved to sunny southern california, you could do no worse than T. Coraghessan Boyle. Time and time again he has [...]

Mason & Dixon (Thomas Pynchon) ---»

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Mechanical ducks. Kool Keith sez: Mechanical Legs, Mechanical legs, and apparently, it was true of the early American Pioneers. I would describe this book using the word Western, but Id be taken to task, so I wont. Its just another awesome Pynchon. Much denser and intimate in terms of characterization, and a touch steampunk, but [...]