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Connie Willis' entertaining comedy inspired by Jerome K. Jerome's Three Men in a Boat (to say nothing of the dog) …
In 1939 an eleven-year-old London girl is kidnapped to Time City, a place existing outside the stream of time and …
In his most extraordinary book, “one of the great clinical writers of the twentieth century” (The New York Times) recounts …
A provocative, insightful yet chilling tale of the very possible near future. A world where the oil driven industrial/military complex …
In this pulse-quickening novel, Alfred Bester imagines a future in which people "jaunte" a thousand miles with a single thought, …
"Presented with extraordinary lucidity, cogency and panache...Powerful and gripping...To have read [the book] is to have consulted a first draft …
Jane Charlotte has been arrested for murder.She tells police that she is a member of a secret organization devoted to …
Gwendolen Chant and her brother Cat find the Chrestomanci Castle family's magic powers difficult to counter with the inferior powers …
Cyberpunk and Beyond...
The literature of science fiction is, to employ the customary buzz word, the literature of "extrapolation," but …
Having long indulged himself in daydreams more exciting than his mundane life as a carpet merchant, Abdullah unexpectedly purchases a …
This is an interesting book, because it's about a man who thinks of himself as a failure who gets his hands on a device... that is made by a race of failures. An entire species that thinks it fucked things up enough that it committed suicide. No-one knows why. Or how.
The writing's hard to get through, but that's kind of the point. It's not an easy book. It's a book that hates you and doesn't want you to read it.
K&C is the winner of several prizes, by the same author who wrote Wonder Boys. It's a story about two boys who create a pulp comic book character in the 1940s, and their lives after that. It's modelled on Seigel and Shuster to an extent, and Jack Kirby is obviously Joe Kavilier, but it's a nice read even as I felt a little lost in the time period. The book is strongest at character definitions and language, but the plot hooks can be seen from miles away; after going through a few John Irving novels, it gets pretty obvious when a character is set up purely as a plot device to jumpstart another character into action. I could have done with far more exploration of Rosa, the woman who lives with these crazy people and a comic book world which is obviously not her own... she never really gets her …
K&C is the winner of several prizes, by the same author who wrote Wonder Boys. It's a story about two boys who create a pulp comic book character in the 1940s, and their lives after that. It's modelled on Seigel and Shuster to an extent, and Jack Kirby is obviously Joe Kavilier, but it's a nice read even as I felt a little lost in the time period. The book is strongest at character definitions and language, but the plot hooks can be seen from miles away; after going through a few John Irving novels, it gets pretty obvious when a character is set up purely as a plot device to jumpstart another character into action. I could have done with far more exploration of Rosa, the woman who lives with these crazy people and a comic book world which is obviously not her own... she never really gets her own story and she suffers for it, having to build a life out of the choices made by people around her.
In a world in which the police have telepathic powers, how do you get away with murder?
Ben Reichs heads …
