Non Fiction Literature

Insatiability: A Novel in Two Parts (Stanislaw Ignacy Witkiewicz) ---»

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Insatiability. The defining term for the twentieth century. The ontological definition of consumer driven markets. Or rather, the ontological definition of a human in a consumer driven market. The novel Insatiability: the dictionary of the ontological definition of the human in a consumer driven market designed by the urge towards technocracy. Unfortunately, theres not much [...]

The Drowned World (J. G. Ballard) ---»

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Best of all Ballard books. An early one, and out of print currently. Strange fever dreams, like Thomas Manns Death in Venice, but, unlike Mann, Ballard never ignores science. This is about a reptilian fever dream in a post-warming world, where all of humanity has retreated to some small islands north of greenland, and send [...]

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). [...]