Will Sargent rated Prentice Alvin: 3 stars
Prentice Alvin by Orson Scott Card
Age rating: PG-13
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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 …
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 "Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!": 5 stars
Will Sargent rated Dark Lord of Derkholm: 3 stars
Dark Lord of Derkholm by Diana Wynne Jones
Derk, an unconventional wizard, and his magical family become involved in a plan to put a stop to the devastating …
Will Sargent rated Islands in the net: 5 stars
Islands in the net by Bruce Sterling
From the back cover:
Laura Webster's on the fast track to success. A bright young star in a multinational conglomerate, …
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 The Penguin complete Father Brown.: 4 stars
Will Sargent rated Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell: 5 stars
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke
Published in 2004, it is an alternative history set in 19th-century England around the time of the Napoleonic Wars. Its …
Will Sargent rated How the mind works: 5 stars
How the mind works by Steven Pinker
"Presented with extraordinary lucidity, cogency and panache...Powerful and gripping...To have read [the book] is to have consulted a first draft …
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 …
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 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 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 …