Will Sargent rated Grass: 4 stars
Grass by Sheri S. Tepper (S.F.Masterworks S.)
Generations ago, humans fled to the cosmic anomaly known as Grass. But before humanity arrived, another species had already claimed …
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Will Sargent rated Accelerando: 3 stars
Accelerando by Charles Stross
The Singularity. It is the era of the posthuman. Artificial intelligences have surpassed the limits of human intellect. Biotechnological beings …
Will Sargent rated "Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!": 5 stars
Will Sargent rated Orson Scott Card's Wyrms Tpb: 4 stars
Orson Scott Card's Wyrms Tpb by Orson Scott Card, Jake Black, Adriano Batista, and 1 other
Will Sargent rated The Stars My Destination: 4 stars
The Stars My Destination by Alfred Bester
In this pulse-quickening novel, Alfred Bester imagines a future in which people "jaunte" a thousand miles with a single thought, …
Will Sargent rated The Beach: 5 stars
Will Sargent rated Passage: 4 stars
Will Sargent rated Fire and Hemlock: 4 stars
Fire and Hemlock by Diana Wynne Jones
Polly has two sets of memories...
One is normal: school, home, friends. The other, stranger memories begin nine years ago, …
Will Sargent rated Flaubert's parrot: 4 stars
Flaubert's parrot by Julian Barnes (Vintage international)
Will Sargent rated Le Napoléon de Notting Hill: 3 stars
Le Napoléon de Notting Hill by G. K. Chesterton, Jean Florence
A witty and surreal novel of the future.
In a rather dull stuck-in-a-rut future, a prankster chosen randomly to be …
Will Sargent rated The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language: 4 stars
The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language by Steven Pinker, Steven Pinker
From the Preface...
I have never met a person who is not interested in language. I wrote this book to …
Will Sargent rated A Tale of Time City: 4 stars
A Tale of Time City by Diana Wynne Jones
In 1939 an eleven-year-old London girl is kidnapped to Time City, a place existing outside the stream of time and …
Will Sargent rated Crystal express: 4 stars
Crystal express by Bruce Sterling
Cyberpunk and Beyond...
The literature of science fiction is, to employ the customary buzz word, the literature of "extrapolation," but …
Will Sargent rated Castle in the Air: 4 stars
Castle in the Air by Diana Wynne Jones (Howl's Moving Castle, #2)
Having long indulged himself in daydreams more exciting than his mundane life as a carpet merchant, Abdullah unexpectedly purchases a …
Will Sargent rated The Demolished Man: 4 stars
The Demolished Man by Alfred Bester (A Kangaroo book)
In a world in which the police have telepathic powers, how do you get away with murder?
Ben Reichs heads …