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/jeff-vandermeer/finch/75 http://www.bookian.com/jeff-vandermeer/finch/75#comments Wed, 06 Jan 2010 15:13:54 +0000 admin http://www.bookian.com/?p=75 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 Cohen Brothers films, without the overt humor quotient paradox. Characters include a dead historian who isnt quite dead, “memory bulbs” that grow from the heads of dead people, and all manner of fungal felicities. A great, fast moving read.

]]> http://www.bookian.com/jeff-vandermeer/finch/75/feed 0 http://www.bookian.com/rudy-rucker/wetware/13 http://www.bookian.com/rudy-rucker/wetware/13#comments Wed, 26 Aug 2009 19:12:17 +0000 Bookian http://www.bookian.com/?p=13 Found this book in an alley. Signed up for a lower body transplant. Melted the top half. Walked around as a birdbath with legs for awhile. Tried to get brain back but the beaurocracy was terrible. What can one do? Wetware is one of the classics of the cyborg life. Just doesnt get any better. Thought it was particularly pertinent for the new millennium as the weapons of choice are now IEDs, which means there are a lotta people walking around part machine anyway. And the book is awesome in its treatment of those tiny aspects of the human that have to deal with the techno-integration aliens. Donna Haraways Cyborg manifesto with cool characters and the theory subsumed into plot of ultra-hip coolness. This book scores ten Zaphod Beeblebrox heads for ultra-coolness. Includes Mechanical Ego ring! – reviewed by blockhead five

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