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Fiction, Science-Fiction  0 Comments

August 14, 2020April 12, 2020

Persepolis Rising – James S. A. Corey

The Expanse books often focus on aspects of the story that I just can’t seem to care about.

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Fiction, Science-Fiction  0 Comments

May 8, 2020March 30, 2020

We Are Legion (We Are Bob) – Dennis E. Taylor

Some books challenge you directly. Other can challenge you indirectly.

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Epic, Fiction, Mythology, Poetry  0 Comments

April 24, 2020March 29, 2020

The Aeneid – Virgil – Robert Fitzgerald (translator)

Epic poems are a medium well out of date, but Fitzgerald’s translation seems to hold a lot of fidelity to them.

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Fiction, Satire, Science-Fiction, Surrealism  0 Comments

March 27, 2020December 19, 2019

The Snail on the Slope – Arkady and Boris Strugatsky

Every read something and feel like your education really wasn’t up to the task of understanding it?

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Fiction, Science-Fiction, Uncategorized  2 Comments

January 18, 2019November 11, 2018

The Final Programme – Michael Moorcock

Have you ever been so utterly confused by a book that you later became convinced that you didn’t really read it?

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Cyberpunk, Fiction, Young Adult  0 Comments

January 4, 2019November 4, 2018

Little Brother – Cory Doctorow

Little Brother deals with some pretty serious topics, but distills them down to a point where even kids will find it all to be a bit silly.

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Fiction, Science-Fiction  0 Comments

August 3, 2018June 20, 2018

Gateway – Frederik Pohl

Frederik Pohl’s Gateway is novel that seems more and more unique these days. Odd, that things should get more unique with age…

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Linguistics, Non-Fiction  0 Comments

June 1, 2018May 5, 2018

Talking Back, Talking Black – John McWhorter

Few topics are as controversial as the state of AAVE in the USA.

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Fiction, Science-Fiction  0 Comments

May 25, 2018May 5, 2018

Semiosis – Sue Burke

A new take on the idea of sentience and the alien other in science-fiction.

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