Tag: science fiction
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The Mountain in the Sea by Ray Nayler
I like the person who recommended the book, but not the book itself
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Hum by Helen Phillips
Hum struggles both as a near-future dystopia and as a family drama. The premise is a good one, but for me it didn’t deliver
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The Book of Elsewhere by Keanu Reeves and China Miéville
I nearly didn’t finish The Book of Elsewhere, but it course corrected and I almost liked it. It’s still way less than the sum of its parts
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The Last Days of New Paris by China Miéville
Wildly creative ideas, messy execution, I didn’t really like this book. I can’t wait to read it again
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The Invention of Morel by Adolfo Bioy Casares
It doesn’t seem like it was published more than 80 years ago. It’s as close to a perfect novel as you’ll find
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Little Eyes by Samanta Schweblin, translated by Megan McDowell
Like the best of Black Mirror, Little Eyes’ near-future hooked me instantly, even the second time
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Fledgling by Octavia E. Butler
Butler’s last book might be her weirdest and is surely her most misunderstood
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“Greetings, Prisoners of Gravity, this is Commander Rick.”
Revisiting Prisoners of Gravity, a niche show on Ontario Public Television in the late-80’s early-90’s
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Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
The preamble: My paternal grandparents’ basement was a cultural goldmine. They raised nine(!) kids in a small house (I think any house is a small house when there’s 9 kids in it), and all the books and records that the kids didn’t take when they moved out, wound up mixed up in the basement —…
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Adulthood Rites by Octavia E. Butler
I was assigned Dawn in an English class in university in the late 1990s. It blew me away and I was instantly a Butler fan. I haven’t read this one in more than 20 years, and it stands up as well as any of Butler’s other works. It’s calm, thoughtful, and full of ideas. I…