Ubik (Philip K. Dick) ---»
...Sitting in my coffin the other day, had a few minutes of extra half-life time, decided to catch up on re-reading the entire philip k. dick ouevre, and picked up Ubik. Of course, the evil neighborhood kid kept coming by and kicking the tires, disturbing my piece of mind. finally, I got so fed up, [...]
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 [...]
Amnesia Moon (Jonathan Lethem) ---»
...I was pretty sure I read this book a long time ago, but then, I thought, hey… maybe not. Maybe it was someone else who thought they had forgotten who had read the book. Even though, if whomever it was who had forgotten about who had read the book, had actually read the book and [...]
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 [...]
The Mother and Other Unsavory Plays: Including The Shoemakers and They (Stanislaw Ignacy Witkiewicz) ---»
...Daniel Gerould is a God. Who else is a proponent of Witkiewicz, one of the greatest modern artists, to Western-Western culture? None. Who else provides insight and commentary, erudite and fascination, or examines the small scraps of leavenings upon which his history has been writ small? None, on this side of the Atlantic. (the side [...]
The Solid Confessor: Science Fiction Classics (Eckonesbit) ---»
...Ab.So.Lute.Ly. Demented. This book has awesome art and is crazy. If you open it like the I-Ching, and start reading anywhere, it says something demented. The back-copy marketing-goo says its like textual arcology, and yes. It is. As far as I have been able to figure out, its kind of like reading that early Russell [...]
The Complete Works of Chuang Tzu (Chuang Tzu) ---»
...Nobody is a better translator of Chinese into English than Burton Watson. And this edition of one of the best Chinese thinkers of all time, Chuang Tzu, or Zhuangzi, or Chuang Chou or Zhuang Zhou, or Master Chuang or Master Zhuang, is the definitive translation to own. Cook Ting is a master to the slaughter, [...]
Songs of the Purple Fungus (Ache Outre) ---»
...Apocalyptic Poetry about Science Fiction and Robots and Reptiles? Readable Poetry? From Canada? Apparently. Having recently re-read Edgar Allen Poes The Purple Pileus, and being a great fan of Early Chinese Poetry (and ONLY early chinese poetry), and with a few moments stuck on a trip to Seattle, I stole this book from a neighbor [...]
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 [...]
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