Dystopian

Review: <em>Ready Player One</em> by Ernest Cline

If you’re a child of the 80s, reading Ready Player One is like mainlining heroin-strength nostalgia. It’s so ridiculously fun…

8 years ago

Review: <em>Riddley Walker</em> by Russell Hoban

Riddley Walker is a unique, fascinating book. It takes places a few thousand years after a nuclear Armageddon in England…

9 years ago

Review: <em>Echopraxia</em> by Peter Watts

I have a bad habit of getting excited by a book and skimming, eager to find out what happens next.…

10 years ago

Review: <i>The Fall of the Towers</i> by Samuel R. Delany

Despite the title, this isn't about 9/11. The three books in this collection were written in the sixties. They don’t…

10 years ago

Review: <em>Memoirs Found in a Bathtub</em> by Stanislaw Lem

If, before sitting down to write 1984, George Orwell had decided to candy-flip (ingest LSD and ecstasy simultaneously), he might…

10 years ago

Review: <em>Gun, with Occasional Music</em> by Jonathan Lethem

It’s easy to be a hero when you’re saving the entire world or galaxy or species. Which is why the…

11 years ago