http://www.bookian.com Book Discussion Tue, 30 Mar 2010 15:09:18 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 http://www.bookian.com/j-g-ballard/the-best-short-stories-of-j-g-ballard/29 http://www.bookian.com/j-g-ballard/the-best-short-stories-of-j-g-ballard/29#comments Wed, 26 Aug 2009 20:17:17 +0000 Bookian http://www.bookian.com/?p=29 A true poet of the scientific. This collection has an excellent grouping of Ballards short stories, many of which have been hard to find until now. Known too much for his Crash, Ballard is, like early Frank Herbert, an extensively environmentalist author, and many of these stories reflect it. Not a bad story in the collection. – reviewed by drowned world doom

]]> http://www.bookian.com/j-g-ballard/the-best-short-stories-of-j-g-ballard/29/feed 0 http://www.bookian.com/thomas-pynchon/mason-dixon/3 http://www.bookian.com/thomas-pynchon/mason-dixon/3#comments Wed, 26 Aug 2009 18:24:17 +0000 Bookian http://www.bookian.com/?p=3 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 mostly just plain. old. bitchin. Pynchon. – reviewed by mechoduck

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