A Wrinkle in the Skin (John Christopher) ---»
...This is a top quality novel in which the hero is an improbable horticulturist set adrift in a world made over by disaster. One of John Christophers more exciting novels and well paced, it is almost a taxonomy of human reactions in times of disaster and apocalypse, witnessed by the perceptive mind of a questioning [...]
The White Mountains (John Christopher) ---»
...One of the Tripod books, The White Mountains follows Will Parker as he attempts to escape the coming of the Tripods, whose goal is to cap humans once they reach adulthood. It has more than enough imaginative inventiveness to handle the explosively creative mind of any youngun up to adulthood. In fact, it would do [...]
The Lotus Caves (John Christopher) ---»
...One of our personal favorites, young recalcitrant hoodlums trapped inside the Bubble, a moon dome where earth colonists are given over to live out a sentence of 25 years or so, find themselves going beyond their young selves as they break the laws of the Bubble and set out to explore, finding one of the [...]
Worlds End (T.C. Boyle) ---»
...For those who enjoy aging, woods-dwelling mycologistic retired history professors exhibiting signs of hyper-intelligence coupled with excessively talented storytelling and liberally doused with 100 proof perception, even when they have given up the ghosts and moved to sunny southern california, you could do no worse than T. Coraghessan Boyle. Time and time again he has [...]
Soon I Will Be Invincible: The Movie (Austin Grossman) ---»
...Soon I Will Be Invincible by Austin Grossman, one of the newest, flattest, most comic-book-like written, and most excellent, contemporary translation and update of a paratactic Rabelaisian Le Quart-Livre of Pantagruel, is a true contribution to that canonical and oft-under metabolized taxonomic clade of literature dealing with the inhuman fables of a fictional character… and [...]
Kurt Vonnegut (Kurt Vonnegut) ---»
...goodbye – reviewed by none
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 [...]
The Santaroga Barrier : Economic Genre Fiction (Frank Herbert) ---»
...The flurry (or slurry) of new, so-called Economic Genre Fiction books must… imperative here, must pay creed to its currently ignored origins. And, for many, Economic Genre fiction starts with the Santaroga Barrier by Frank Herbert. Sure sure sure.. Dune, we know. The Green Brain… excellent! but, off topic. No, in the Santaroga Barrier, Frank [...]
The Time Travelers Wife (Audrey Niffenegger) ---»
...Audrey Niffenegger is a truly wonderful writer, and can create highly psychological science fiction right up there along the lines of the most intense victorian mind-game plans. The Time Travelers Wife taxes the ability of a journalistic style but she pulls it off. Lo, the days of having to pseudoname yourself to be taken seriously [...]
Insatiability: A Novel in Two Parts (Stanislaw Ignacy Witkiewicz) ---»
...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 [...]
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