Science Fiction Literature
Finch (Jeff VanderMeer) ---»
...The new book out by Jeff Vandermeer, Finch, has garnered some pretty good reviews from around the webosphere [latimes], and we have to say theyre pretty close to right. Hes pretty much known for the Ambergris city setting and Finch continues the series. Finch centers around the kind of metaphysical detective endemic to the [...]
No Blade of Grass (John Christopher) ---»
...In the spirit of the Cosy Catastrophe fiction, we begin an all out tribute to the works of John Christopher. The man of many pseudonyms, Samuel Youd aka John Christopher, Hilary Ford, William Godfrey, Peter Graaf, Peter Nichols, Anthony Rye, Stanley Winchester, is one of the great unpraised authors of the twentieth century. After No [...]
The Golden Man and Selected Short Stories (Philip K. Dick) ---»
...The hyper real transition to movies from books or short stories, especially short stories by philip k dick, is a constant exercise in tedium ad infinitum. Witness the sarcasm of such resources as The Golden Man by Philip K Dick based on the movies trailer. (arent film trailers supposed to have all the best parts [...]
Roadside Picnic (Arkady and Boris Strugatsky) ---»
...The Zone Returns! William Burroughs? No. Tarkovsky? You know, Stalker? before the whole George Clooney Solaris thing? No. Arkady and Boris, originators of the Stalker. Roadside picnic. Tarkovsky. Apocalypse. doom. Burroughs. wastelands. Strugatsky brothers. pure gold. This is one of those science fiction classics with the annoying habit of being out of print. No wonder [...]
Definitely Maybe (Arkady and Boris Strugatsky) ---»
...One of the All Time Best Books. Ever. Arkady and Boris pushed the boundaries way back when, when there were still boundaries. Or maybe they didnt. Some have hated it. Others have loved it. But it is by far the best. Ever. Russian scientists and mathematicians live in gulag-style apartment complexes and never leave. Or [...]
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 [...]
Tales from Inside the Boerarrium, Science Fiction Vol. I (A.K. Otterness) ---»
...Clearly a New Weird bias. Similar writing to Jonathan Lethem, kinda stoney, memory and feelings and sci-fi stuff, artistic. But a few shorts in this book are demented and hilarious. Ok, like Plantaddict. Or The Klotho Trigger. Like old Amazing Science Fiction pulp magazine writing. A couple hard-sf stories, mostly republished from early 1990s magazines [...]
