Kulture Literature

A Canticle for Leibowitz (Walter M. Miller Jr.) ---»

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Nothing like post apocalyptic Monks to cheer one up. An argument could be made that monks took us out of the middle ages, or at least helped something of ourselves survive the period. But perhaps, it has just prolonged our suffering? These are metaphysical questions, best left to priests and jesuetical dreamers and profits (sic). [...]

Against the Day (Thomas Pynchon) ---»

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Thomas Pynchon: Ultimate Space Junky. Back before we had the neutrino ultra-engine drive, we had dirigibles and zeppelins and rattlesnakes in the desert which no one visited except old prospecting mountain men. And then, we had Pynchon. Against the Day is like steampunked cyberpunk with old pieces of wood and dried twigs for broadband. Thats [...]