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- The Miracle Workers (1958)
- When the Five Moons Rise (1954)
- Telek (1952)
- Noise (1952)
- The New Prime (1951)
- Cil (1966)
- Guyal of Sfere (1950)
- The Men Return (1957)]]> 288 Jack Vance 0026215101 G 0 to-read 4.09
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]]> 16234584 Heart of Darkness—complete with a mad white hunter and his hordes of native soldiers—this "powerful and beautifully clear" (Brian Aldiss) work becomes a thrilling adventure and a haunting examination of the effects of environmental collapse on the human mind.]]> 198 J.G. Ballard 0871403625 G 0 currently-reading 3.50 1962
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]]> 24611819
Wilf Netherton lives in London, seventy-some years later, on the far side of decades of slow-motion apocalypse. Things are pretty good now, for the haves, and there aren’t many have-nots left. Wilf, a high-powered publicist and celebrity-minder, fancies himself a romantic misfit, in a society where reaching into the past is just another hobby. 

Burton’s been moonlighting online, secretly working security in some game prototype, a virtual world that looks vaguely like London, but a lot weirder. He’s got Flynne taking over shifts, promised her the game’s not a shooter. Still, the crime she witnesses there is plenty bad.

Flynne and Wilf are about to meet one another. Her world will be altered utterly, irrevocably, and Wilf’s, for all its decadence and power, will learn that some of these third-world types from the past can be badass.]]> 485 William Gibson 0425276236 G 0 to-read 3.77 2014
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]]> 23014513
What musical features are responsible for Kondo's distinct “Mario soundâ€�? How do the different themes underscore the vastness of Princess Peach's Mushroom Kingdom? And in what ways do the game's sound effects resonate with our physical experience of the world? These and other questions are explored within, through the lens of Kondo's compositional philosophy-one that would influence an entire generation of video game composers. As Kondo himself stated, “we [at Nintendo] were trying to do something that had never been done before.â€� In this book, Schartmann shows his readers how Kondo and his team not just succeeded, but heralded in a new era of video games.]]> 168 Andrew Schartmann 1628928530 G 4 3.71 2015
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]]> 95377 L.A. Style to the Village Voice, from Esquire to Hustler. He penned scripts for twisted cult classics like Cafe Flesh and Dr. Caligari. He banged out shows for TV mega-hits like Moonlighting, Twin Peaks, and thirtysomething. But even when Jerry Stahl was making five grand a week, he was shooting six. Careening from his luxury home to L.A.'s more hellacious neighborhoods, he financed a heroin habit that brought on the soothing hiss of oblivion, while it stole his health and smashed his career. Until in a private apocalypse straight out of Day of the Locust, Jerry Stahl kicked smack and emerged clean.

A searing, strung-out confessional in the lineage of Lenny Bruce, William S. Burroughs, and Hubert Selby Jr., PERMANENT MIDNIGHT chronicles one man's slide into the opiated abyss and his claw-marked ascent back into the light--heralding the return of the Urban Hipster to contemporary literature, infused with savage humor and relentless intensity.]]> 371 Jerry Stahl 0976082209 G 0 to-read 3.94 2015
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]]> 18402954 Donuts are not hip hop music as "hip hop music" is typically defined; they careen and crash into each other, in one moment noisy and abrasive, gorgeous and heartbreaking the next. The samples and melodies tell the story of a man coming to terms with his declining health, a final love letter to the family and friends he was leaving behind. As a prolific producer with a voracious appetite for the history and mechanics of the music he loved, J Dilla knew the records that went into constructing Donuts inside and out. He could have taken them all and made a much different, more accessible album. If the widely accepted view is that his final work is a record about dying, the question becomes why did he make this record about dying?

Drawing from philosophy, critical theory and musicology, as well as Dilla's own musical catalogue, Jordan Ferguson shows that the contradictory, irascible and confrontational music found on Donuts is as much a result of an artist's declining health as it is an example of what scholars call "late style," placing the album in a musical tradition that stretches back centuries.]]> 136 Jordan Ferguson 1623561833 G 0 to-read 4.16 2014
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]]> 302979 The album began as after-hours demos by mercenary new wave keyboardist Trent Reznor, and was disciplined into sparse industrial dance by a handful of the UK's best industrial producers. Carr traces how the album became beloved in the underground, found its mass at Lollapalooza, and its market at the newly opened mall store Hot Topic. For fans, Nine Inch Nails was a vehicle for questioning God, society, the family, sex, and the body. In ten raw, heartbreaking oral histories woven through the book, fans living in the post-industrial Midwest discuss the successes and failures of the American dream as they are articulated in Nine Inch Nails' music. Daphne Carr illuminates Pretty Hate Machine as at once singular and as representative of how popular music can impact history and change lives.]]> 192 Daphne Carr 0826427898 G 0 to-read 3.10 2011
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]]> 3976464
A decade and a half ago, Illmatic launched one of the most storied careers in hip hop, and cemented New York's place as the genre's epicenter. With this in-depth look at the record, Matthew Gasteier explores the competing themes that run through Nas's masterpiece and finds a compelling journey into adulthood. Combining a history of Nas's early years with interviews from many of the most important people associated with the album, this book provides new information and context for what many consider to be the greatest hip hop record ever made.]]> 128 Matthew Gasteier 0826429076 G 0 to-read 3.55 2009
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]]> 1543976
They married within 2 months at the Always and Forever Yours Wedding Chapel at 2am. Swordfishtrombones was the first thing Waits recorded after his marriage, and it was at Kathleen's urging that he made a record that conceded exactly nothing to his record label, or the critics, or his fans. There aren't many love stories where the happy ending sounds like a paint can tumbling in an empty cement mixer.

Kathleen Brennan was sorely disappointed by Tom's record collection. She forced him out of his comfortable jazzbo pocket to take in foreign film scores, German theatre, and Asian percussion. These two stories of a man creating that elusive American second act, and also finding the perfect collaborator in his wife give this book a natural forward drive.]]> 143 David Smay 0826427820 G 0 to-read 3.75 2007
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]]> 199447 136 Nicholas Rombes 0826416713 G 0 to-read 3.50 2005
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]]> 301880 released. It has also been written about, pored over, and analyzed more than most other albums put together. In this disarming book, Jim Fusilli focuses primarily on the emotional core of the album, on Brian Wilson's pitch-perfect cry of despair. In doing so, he brings to life the search for equilibrium and acceptance that still gives "Pet Sounds" its heart almost four decades after its release.]]> 128 Jim Fusilli 0826416705 G 0 to-read 3.58 2005
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]]> 56052322 128 Ross Hagen G 0 to-read 3.76 2020
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]]> 204992376 Perhaps the best musical encapsulation of the Cold War as experienced in the walled city of West-Berlin, Kollaps is a product of its time while remaining as vital, exhilarating and surprising as the day it was released.

The book explores the contexts, themes and influences that shaped Kollaps. It describes the early days of EinstĂŒrzende Neubauten in West-Berlin, their infamous live performances and guerilla style recording tactics, and the scrap metal banging, piercing guitar noise and evocative lyricism that went on to inspire generations of fans. Most significantly, it explores the desire and deep sense of belonging that is expressed by what Nick Cave called the 'incredibly mournful, haunting' nature of this music. The beginning of a 40-year career, this first burst of energy remains their purest statement.]]> 128 Melle Jan Kromhout 1501387499 G 3 4.00 2024
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]]> 15197 Maus introduced readers to Vladek Spiegleman, a Jewish survivor of Hitler's Europe, and his son, a cartoonist trying to come to terms with his father, his father's terrifying story, and History itself. Its form, the cartoon (the Nazis are cats, the Jews mice), succeeds perfectly in shocking us out of any lingering sense of familiararity with the events described, approaching, as it does, the unspeakable through the diminutive.

This second volume, subtitled And Here My Troubles Began, moves us from the barracks of Auschwitz to the bungalows of the Catskills. Genuinely tragic and comic by turns, it attains a complexity of theme and a precision of thought new to comics and rare in any medium. Maus ties together two powerful stories: Vladek's harrowing tale of survival against all odds, delineating the paradox of daily life in the death camps, and the author's account of his tortured relationship with his aging father. At every level this is the ultimate survivor's tale - and that too of the children who somehow survive even the survivors.]]> 144 Art Spiegelman 0679729771 G 0 4.42 1991
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]]> 15196
A brutally moving work of art—widely hailed as the greatest graphic novel ever written—Maus recounts the chilling experiences of the author’s father during the Holocaust, with Jews drawn as wide-eyed mice and Nazis as menacing cats.

Maus is a haunting tale within a tale, weaving the author’s account of his tortured relationship with his aging father into an astonishing retelling of one of history's most unspeakable tragedies. It is an unforgettable story of survival and a disarming look at the legacy of trauma.]]> 159 Art Spiegelman 0394541553 G 0 4.39 1986
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]]> 749720 Prima Belladonna" and "Escapement" - appeared in Science Fantasy and New Worlds in 1956. Now, all of his published stories - including four not previously featured in a collection - have been arranged in the order of original publication, providing an unprecedented opportunity to review the career of one of Britain's greatest writers.

A Washington Post Best Book of 2009, Boston Globe Best Book, Los Angeles Times Favorite Book, and San Francisco Chronicle Best Book.

Contents:
- Prima Belladonna [Vermilion Sands] (1956)
- Escapement (1956)
- The Concentration City (1957, variant of Build-Up)
- Venus Smiles [Vermilion Sands] (1957)
- Manhole 69 (1957)
- Track 12 (1958)
- The Waiting Grounds (1959)
- Now: Zero (1959)
- The Sound-Sweep (1960)
- Zone of Terror (1960)
- Chronopolis (1960)
- The Voices of Time (1960)
- The Last World of Mr. Goddard (1960)
- Studio 5, The Stars [Vermilion Sands] (1961)
- Deep End (1961)
- The Overloaded Man (1961)
- Mr F. is Mr F. (1961)
- Billennium (1961)
- The Gentle Assassin (1961)
- The Insane Ones (1962)
- The Garden of Time (1962)
- The Thousand Dreams of Stellavista [Vermilion Sands] (1962)
- Thirteen to Centaurus (1962)
- Passport to Eternity (1962)
- The Cage of Sand (1962)
- The Watch-Towers (1962)
- The Singing Statues [Vermilion Sands] (1962)
- The Man on the 99th Floor (1962)
- The Subliminal Man (1963)
- The Reptile Enclosure (1963)
- A Question of Re-Entry (1963)
- The Time-Tombs (1963)
- Now Wakes the Sea (1963)
- The Venus Hunters (1963)
- End-Game (1963)
- Minus One (1963)
- The Sudden Afternoon (1963)
- The Screen Game [Vermilion Sands] (1963)
- Time of Passage (1964)
- Prisoner of the Coral Deep (1964)
- The Lost Leonardo (1964)
- The Terminal Beach (1964)
- The Illuminated Man (1964)
- The Delta at Sunset (1964)
- The Drowned Giant (1964)
- The Gioconda of the Twilight Noon (1964)
- The Volcano Dances (1964)
- The Beach Murders (1966)
- The Day of Forever (1966)
- The Impossible Man (1966)
- Storm-Bird, Storm-Dreamer (1966)
- Tomorrow Is a Million Years (1966)
- The Assassination of John Fitzgerald Kennedy Considered as a Downhill Motor Race (1966)
- Cry Hope, Cry Fury! [Vermilion Sands] (1967)
- The Recognition (1967)
- The Cloud-Sculptors of Coral D [Vermilion Sands] (1967)
- Why I Want to Fuck Ronald Reagan (1968)
- The Dead Astronaut (1968)
- The Comsat Angels (1968)
- The Killing Ground (1969)
- A Place and a Time to Die (1969)
- Say Goodbye to the Wind [Vermilion Sands] (1970)
- The Greatest Television Show on Earth (1972)
- My Dream of Flying to Wake Island (1974)
- The Air Disaster (1975)
- Low-Flying Aircraft (1975)
- The Life and Death of God (1976)
- Notes Towards a Mental Breakdown (1976)
- The 60 Minute Zoom (1976)
- The Smile (1976)
- The Ultimate City (1976)
- The Dead Time (1977)
- The Index (1977)
- The Intensive Care Unit (1977)
- Theatre of War (1977)
- Having a Wonderful Time (1978)
- One Afternoon at Utah Beach (1978)
- Zodiac 2000 (1978)
- Motel Architecture (1978)
- A Host of Furious Fancies (1980)
- News from the Sun (1981)
- Memories of the Space Age (1982)
- Myths of the Near Future (1982)
- Report on an Unidentified Space Station (1982)
- The Object of the Attack (1984)
- Answers to a Questionnaire (1985)
- The Man Who Walked on the Moon (1985)
- The Secret History of World War 3 (1988)
- Love in a Colder Climate (1989)
- The Enormous Space (1989)
- The Largest Theme Park in the World (1989)
- War Fever (1989)
- Dream Cargoes (1990)
- A Guide to Virtual Death (1992)
- The Message from Mars (1992)
- Report from an Obscure Planet (1992)

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]]> 70241 Crash explores the disturbing potentialities of contemporary society's increasing dependence on technology as intermediary in human relations.]]> 224 J.G. Ballard 0312420331 G 4 3.62 1973
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]]> 383094 260 Mitchell Stephens 0195098293 G 2
Even in 1998 this book was pretty dated. An absolute slog to read this in 2025.]]> 3.66 1998
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A book about the condensation of information that is ironically about 20 times longer than it needs to be. The whole thesis is "trust me, bro, the new video will be great...but I don't know what it is exactly and instead I'll give many, many examples of montage (which has existed since the silent film era)".

Even in 1998 this book was pretty dated. An absolute slog to read this in 2025.
]]> 1167589 192 Ian Shirley 0946719136 G 0 to-read 3.53 1998
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]]> 78130090 An electric, searing memoir by the original rebel girl and legendary front woman of Bikini Kill and Le Tigre.

Hey girlfriend I got a proposition goes something like this: Dare ya to do what you want

Kathleen Hanna’s band Bikini Kill embodied the punk scene of the 90s, and today her personal yet feminist lyrics on anthems like “Rebel Girlâ€� and “Double Dare Yaâ€� are more powerful than ever. But where did this transformative voice come from?

In Rebel Girl, Hanna’s raw and insightful new memoir, she takes us from her tumul­tuous childhood to her formative college years and her first shows. As Hanna makes clear, being in a punk “girl bandâ€� in those years was not a simple or safe prospect. Male violence and antagonism threatened at every turn, and surviving as a singer who was a lightning rod for controversy took limitless amounts of determination.

But the relationships she developed during those years buoyed her, including with her bandmates Tobi Vail, Kathi Wilcox, JD Samson, and Johanna Fateman. And her friendships with musicians like Kurt Cobain, Ian MacKaye, Kim Gordon, and Joan Jett reminded her that, despite the odds, the punk world could still nurture and care for its own. Hanna opens up about falling in love with Ad-Rock of the Beastie Boys and her debilitating battle with Lyme disease, and she brings us behind the scenes of her musical growth in her bands Le Tigre and The Julie Ruin. She also writes candidly about the Riot Grrrl movement, documenting with love its grassroots origins but critiquing its exclusivity.

In an uncut voice all her own, Hanna reveals the hardest times along with the most joyful—and how they continue to fuel her revolutionary art and music.]]> 326 Kathleen Hanna 0062825232 G 0 to-read 4.40 2024
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]]> 7742036 Girls to the Front is the epic, definitive history of Riot Grrrl, the radical feminist uprising that exploded into the public eye in the 1990s and included incendiary punk bands Bikini Kill, Bratmobile, Heavens to Betsy, and Huggy Bear. A dynamic chronicle not just a movement but an era, this is the story of a group of pissed-off girls with no patience for sexism and no intention of keeping quiet.]]> 367 Sara Marcus 0061806366 G 4 3.96 2010
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]]> 44451891
In the aftermath of a massive earthquake, a Japanese elementary school is transported into a hostile world where the students and teachers are besieged by terrifying creatures and beset by madness.

Out of nowhere, an entire school vanishes, leaving nothing but a hole in the ground. While parents mourn and authorities investigate, the students and teachers find themselves not dead but stranded in a terrifying wasteland where they must fight to survive.]]> 744 Kazuo Umezz 197470937X G 0 to-read 4.03 1972
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]]> 50892236 Discover the wild and wonderful creatures of Thra in this guide to the flora and fauna of the Dark Crystal universe featuring remarkable original illustrations.

In a world where rocks talk and trees dispense wisdom from across the ages, anything is possible. The Dark Crystal Bestiary is a comprehensive volume that catalogs the many lifeforms of Thra’s unique ecosystem. Drawing from all aspects of the Dark Crystal saga’s universe, this book is visually dazzling and filled with enthralling information about all of Thra’s lifeforms, making it the definitive guide to a world of wonders.

‱Â�Own the most comprehensive guide to the Dark Crystal universe: This book showcases fauna from all corners of Thra, from the vile Skeksis and their noble counterparts, the Mystics, to a whole cornucopia of amazing creatures and critters, including Landstriders, Garthim, Peeper Beetles, Fizzgigs, Pluff’m, and many more fan favorites.

‱Â�Over 200 fantasy illustrations: Featuring all-new illustrations by Iris Compiet, a protĂ©gĂ© of the original Dark Crystal concept artist, Brian Froud, this book will show you the world of Thra as you’ve never seen it before.

‱Â�Learn about the world of Thra: The Dark Crystal Bestiary is packed with lore, drawing information from the original film, the hit Netflix show The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance, comic books, and novels.

‱Â�An epic addition to your home library: Great for fantasy lovers, The Dark Crystal Bestiary will be a perfect addition to your bookshelf or coffee table.]]> 168 Adam Cesare 1683838211 G 0 to-read 4.70 2020
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]]> 103035 358 Clive Barker 0743417321 G 3 3.93 1988
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rating: 3
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]]> 33670466
Demonic possession! Haunted condominiums! Murderous babies! Man-eating moths! No plot was too ludicrous, no cover art too appalling, no evil too despicable for the Paperbacks From Hell.

Where did they come from? Where did they go? Horror author Grady Hendrix risks his soul and sanity (not to mention yours) to relate the true, untold story of the Paperbacks From Hell.

Shocking story summaries! Incredible cover art! And true tales of writers, artists, and publishers who violated every literary law but one: never be boring. All this awaits, if you dare experience the Paperbacks From Hell.]]> 254 Grady Hendrix 1594749817 G 0 to-read 4.28 2017
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]]> 481428 But he understood the sensual hunger growing inside his children's young bodies. He knew they could help each other answer "The Need".
Father had Science. Father had Reason. And he had Pin.]]> 264 Andrew Neiderman 0671415018 G 3 3.74 1981
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]]> 209654563 112 Hayv Kharaman 1941366627 G 0 currently-reading 4.00
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]]> 1037308 Vintage paperback 204 Leon Whiteson 0505516756 G 3 3.07 1980
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]]> 6933958 214 Michael Rubbo 2890372871 G 0 to-read 3.60 1986
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]]> 166982
Theresa Dunn spends her days as a schoolteacher whose rigid Catholic upbringing has taught her to find happiness by finding the right man. But at night, her resentment of those social mores and fear of attachment lead her into the alcohol-and-drug fueled underworld of singles' bars, where she engages in a pattern of dangerous sexual activity that threatens her safety and, ultimately, her life.

Looking for Mr. Goodbar is “uncommonly well-written and well-constructed fiction, easily accessible, but full of insight and intelligence and illuminationâ€� ( The New York Times Book Review ). With more than four million copies in print, this seminal novel—a lightning rod for controversy upon its publication—has become a cultural touchstone that has forever influenced our perception of social rebellion and sexual empowerment.]]> 280 Judith Rossner 0671019015 G 0 to-read 3.67 1975
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]]> 28597 284 Robert Anton Wilson 1561840564 G 0 to-read 4.25 1983
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]]> 89937 95 Malaclypse 1559500409 G 0 to-read 4.27 1965
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]]> 57913
Filled with sex and violence—in and out of time and space—the three books of The Illuminatus! Trilogy are only partly works of the imagination. They tackle all the cover-ups of our time—from who really shot the Kennedys to why there's a pyramid on a one-dollar bill—and suggest a mind-blowing truth.]]> 805 Robert Shea 0440539811 G 0 to-read 4.02 1983
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]]> 34862529 7 J.G. Ballard G 0 to-read 4.05 1962
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Contents
xi � Foreword: Year 2002 (Dangerous Visions 35th Anniversary Edition) � (2002) � essay by Michael Moorcock
xiii � Introduction: Year 2002 (Dangerous Visions 35th Anniversary Edition � (2002) � essay by Harlan Ellison
xxiii � Foreword 1-The Second Revolution � (1967) � essay by Isaac Asimov
xxxiii � Introduction: Thirty-Two Soothsayers � (1967) � essay by Harlan Ellison (variant of Thirty-Two Soothsayers)
xxxix � Foreword 2-Harlan and I � (1967) � essay by Isaac Asimov
1 � Evensong � (1967) � shortstory by Lester del Rey
9 � Flies � (1967) � shortstory by Robert Silverberg
21 � The Day After the Day the Martians Came � (1967) � shortstory by Frederik Pohl (variant of The Day the Martians Came)
30 � Riders of the Purple Wage � (1967) � novella by Philip José Farmer
105 � The Malley System � (1967) � shortstory by Miriam Allen deFord
115 � A Toy for Juliette � (1967) � shortstory by Robert Bloch
128 � The Prowler in the City at the Edge of the World � (1967) � novelette by Harlan Ellison
154 � The Night That All Time Broke Out � (1967) � shortstory by Brian W. Aldiss
169 � The Man Who Went to the Moon - Twice � (1967) � shortstory by Howard Rodman
181 � Faith of Our Fathers � (1967) � novelette by Philip K. Dick
216 � The Jigsaw Man � [Known Space] � (1967) � shortstory by Larry Niven
231 � Gonna Roll the Bones � (1967) � novelette by Fritz Leiber
256 � Lord Randy, My Son � (1967) � shortstory by Joe L. Hensley
272 � Eutopia � (1967) � novelette by Poul Anderson
295 � Incident in Moderan � [Moderan] � (1967) � shortstory by David R. Bunch
299 � The Escaping � (1967) � shortstory by David R. Bunch
305 � The Doll-House � (1967) � shortstory by James Cross
326 � Sex and/or Mr. Morrison � (1967) � shortstory by Carol Emshwiller
338 � Shall the Dust Praise Thee? � (1967) � shortstory by Damon Knight
344 � If All Men Were Brothers, Would You Let One Marry Your Sister? � (1967) � novella by Theodore Sturgeon
390 � What Happened to Auguste Clarot? � (1967) � shortstory by Larry Eisenberg
396 � Ersatz � (1967) � shortstory by Henry Slesar
404 � Go, Go, Go, Said the Bird � (1967) � shortstory by Sonya Dorman
412 � The Happy Breed � (1967) � shortstory by John Sladek [as by John T. Sladek ]
433 � Encounter with a Hick � (1967) � shortstory by Jonathan Brand
439 � From the Government Printing Office � (1967) � shortstory by Kris Neville
447 � Land of the Great Horses � (1967) � shortstory by R. A. Lafferty
458 � The Recognition � (1967) � shortstory by J. G. Ballard
472 � Judas � (1967) � shortstory by John Brunner
483 � Test to Destruction � (1967) � novelette by Keith Laumer
510 � Carcinoma Angels � (1967) � shortstory by Norman Spinrad
523 � Auto-da-Fé � (1967) � shortstory by Roger Zelazny
532 � Aye, and Gomorrah . . . � (1967) � shortstory by Samuel R. Delany

]]> 592 Harlan Ellison 0743452615 G 0 to-read 4.18 1967
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]]> 74310 208 David Bischoff 0061063754 G 0 to-read 3.55 1985
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]]> 263021 312 Vonda N. McIntyre 0553296590 G 0 to-read 3.87 1978
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]]> 375802
But Ender is not the only result of the experiment. The war with the Buggers has been raging for a hundred years, and the quest for the perfect general has been underway almost as long. Ender's two older siblings, Peter and Valentine, are every bit as unusual as he is, but in very different ways. While Peter was too uncontrollably violent, Valentine very nearly lacks the capability for violence altogether. Neither was found suitable for the military's purpose. But they are driven by their jealousy of Ender, and by their inbred drive for power. Peter seeks to control the political process, to become a ruler. Valentine's abilities turn more toward the subtle control of the beliefs of commoner and elite alike, through powerfully convincing essays. Hiding their youth and identities behind the anonymity of the computer networks, these two begin working together to shape the destiny of Earth-an Earth that has no future at all if their brother Ender fails.]]> 324 Orson Scott Card 0812550706 G 0 to-read 4.31 1985
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]]> 67896 A lucid translation of the well-known Taoist classic by a leading scholar-now in a Shambhala Pocket Library edition.

Written more than two thousand years ago, the Tao Teh Ching, or -The Classic of the Way and Its Virtue, - is one of the true classics of the world of spiritual literature.

Traditionally attributed to the legendary -Old Master, - Lao Tzu, the Tao Teh Ching teaches that the qualities of the enlightened sage or ideal ruler are identical with those of the perfected individual.

Today, Lao Tzu's words are as useful in mastering the arts of leadership in business and politics as they are in developing a sense of balance and harmony in everyday life. To follow the Tao or Way of all things and realize their true nature is to embody humility, spontaneity, and generosity.

John C. H. Wu has done a remarkable job of rendering this subtle text into English while retaining the freshness and depth of the original. A jurist and scholar, Dr. Wu was a recognized authority on Taoism and the translator of several Taoist and Zen texts and of Chinese poetry.

This book is part of the Shambhala Pocket Library series. The Shambhala Pocket Library is a collection of short, portable teachings from notable figures across religious traditions and classic texts.

The covers in this series are rendered by Colorado artist Robert Spellman. The books in this collection distill the wisdom and heart of the work Shambhala Publications has published over 50 years into a compact format that is collectible, reader-friendly, and applicable to everyday life.]]> 107 Lao Tzu 0679724346 G 0 to-read 4.29 -350
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]]> 54004449
Hoping for some peace and quiet to clear her head, Harriet Porber arrives to find that her new neighbor, an angsty bard named Snabe from the band Seven Inch Nails, is already there making a racket. This parasaurolophus spellcaster is a bad boy through and through, and with his incredible powers of metamagic, Snabe reveals that this layer of reality is much more than it seems. Could Harriet and Snabe really be characters in a parody romance novel?

Soon enough, these two are discovering they have more similarities than differences: both trans, both strong, and both hoping to create a new spell that will change the world. But with the addition of two devious sentient motorcycles to the mix, Dellatrix and Braco, things start to get complicated.

Now trans wizard Harriet Porber is caught up in a tale of magic and mystery where nothing is as it seems, except for one universal truth: love is real.]]> 160 Chuck Tingle G 0 to-read 3.93 2020
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]]> 195790870 From Chuck Tingle, author of the USA Today bestselling Camp Damascus, comes a new heart-pounding story about what it takes to succeed in a world that wants you dead.

Misha is a jaded scriptwriter who has been working in Hollywood for years, and has just been nominated for his first Oscar. But when he's pressured by his producers to kill off a gay character in the upcoming season finaleâ€�"for the algorithm"―Misha discovers that it's not that simple.

As he is haunted by his past, and past mistakes, Misha must risk everything to find a way to do what's right―before it's too late.]]> 295 Chuck Tingle 1250874653 G 0 to-read 4.13 2024
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]]> 520515
So when Max Renn saw the flesh of his stomach swell and redden as though a giant worm was moving beneath the skin, was that imagination—or reality?

And when the skin split and the flesh parted like giant lips, soft and bloodied. When he could sink his fingers, his whole hand, deep inside, feeling and probing through the wall of his own stomach. As the juices, thick and warm, clung and sucked gently at his finger-tips, drawing him in. As the bile rose, hot with revulsion in his throat.... Was that a nightmare—or reality?]]> 255 Jack Martin 0821711660 G 4 3.73 1983
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average rating: 3.73
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rating: 4
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Surprisingly good novelization. A mutated synthesis of J.G. Ballard and Philip Dick.
]]> 644377 461 Chet Fleming 0942287029 G 0 to-read 3.29 1988
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]]> 1385997 Todd Strasser 0451145356 G 0 to-read 4.11 1986
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]]> 1897730 Zardoz 130 John Boorman 0330240560 G 0 to-read 3.18 1974
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]]> 1966874 Book by Milne, Larry 192 Larry Milne 0340372516 G 0 to-read 4.01 1984
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]]> 407226 224 James Kahn 0446328413 G 0 4.17 1985
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]]> 2886282
The streets are quiet. Dead quiet as the shadows lengthen and night falls. It's Halloween.

Blood-chilling screams pierce the air. Grinning skulls and grotesque shapes lurk in the gathering darkness. It's Halloween.

The streets are filling with small cloaked figures. They're just kids, right? The doorbell rings and your flesh creeps. But it's all in fun, isn't it?

No. This Halloween is different.

It's the last one.]]> 228 Jack Martin 0352314184 G 0 to-read 3.65 1982
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]]> 36442813
With his extraordinary charm and sense of wonder, bringing together science, philosophy and art, Carlo Rovelli unravels this mystery, inviting us to imagine a world where time is in us and we are not in time.]]> 224 Carlo Rovelli 073521610X G 0 to-read 4.14 2017
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]]> 52635 164 Clive Barker 0061002828 G 4 4.08 1986
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rating: 4
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]]> 137974 A VCR that could tape tomorrow's news.

Rela has just bought herself a new VCR. She sets the machine to tape a movie she plans to show at a party she is throwing. But instead of the movie she gets the news - tomorrow's news.

Soon Rela is regularly recording next week's news, even what is to happen in the far future. It's fun, at first, until she sees herself on the news. And learns that there is no future for her.

But can she change destiny?

Can Rela survive what is meant to be?]]> 180 Christopher Pike 0671745093 G 2 3.56 1993
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]]> 159764 422 Rand Miller 0786881887 G 0 to-read 4.04 1995
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]]> 12617
Based on a series of case studies—including the media’s dichotomous treatment of “worthyâ€� versus “unworthyâ€� victims, “legitimizingâ€� and “meaninglessâ€� Third World elections, and devastating critiques of media coverage of the U.S. wars against Indochina—Herman and Chomsky draw on decades of criticism and research to propose a Propaganda Model to explain the media’s behavior and performance. Their new introduction updates the Propaganda Model and the earlier case studies, and it discusses several other applications. These include the manner in which the media covered the passage of the North American Free Trade Agreement and subsequent Mexican financial meltdown of 1994-1995, the media’s handling of the protests against the World Trade Organization, World Bank, and International Monetary Fund in 1999 and 2000, and the media’s treatment of the chemical industry and its regulation. What emerges from this work is a powerful assessment of how propagandistic the U.S. mass media are, how they systematically fail to live up to their self-image as providers of the kind of information that people need to make sense of the world, and how we can understand their function in a radically new way.]]> 412 Edward S. Herman 0375714499 G 0 to-read 4.25 1988
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]]> 93371
Katsuhiro Otomo’s stunning science fiction masterpiece is considered by many to be the finest work of graphic fiction ever produced, and Otomo’s brilliant animated film version is regarded worldwide as a classic.

This edition includes a new foreword from the author and a postscript from Dark Horse publisher Mike Richardson!]]> 361 Katsuhiro Otomo 1569714983 G 0 to-read 4.41 1984
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]]> 43763
Louis and Claudia travel Europe, eventually coming to Paris and the ragingly successful Theatre des Vampires--a theatre of vampires pretending to be mortals pretending to be vampires. Here they meet the magnetic and ethereal Armand, who brings them into a whole society of vampires. But Louis and Claudia find that finding others like themselves provides no easy answers and in fact presents dangers they scarcely imagined.

Originally begun as a short story, the book took off as Anne wrote it, spinning the tragic and triumphant life experiences of a soul. As well as the struggles of its characters, Interview captures the political and social changes of two continents. The novel also introduces Lestat, Anne's most enduring character, a heady mixture of attraction and revulsion. The book, full of lush description, centers on the themes of immortality, change, loss, sexuality, and power.
source: annerice.com]]> 346 Anne Rice 0345476875 G 3 4.04 1976
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rating: 3
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]]> 43814 481 Anne Rice 0345476883 G 0 to-read 4.10 1985
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]]> 239751
Part of the reason is because Mike keeps coming back to her in dreams. Horrible dreams filled with blood.

Two of Jean's friends are awaiting her in Hawaii—Mandy and Michele. They have already made friends with two young men who teach scuba diving at the hotel—Dave and Johnny. Jean and Johnny quickly become friends. But there are problems in paradise. Besides Jean's continuing nightmares, Dave and Johnny have recently lost a partner in the ocean. No one knows how he died. No one can find his body. But then Jean finds Mike's body. It isn't where it's supposed to be and seems to have some life in it.]]> 211 Christopher Pike 0671690574 G 3 3.71 1991
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average rating: 3.71
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rating: 3
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]]> 596573 Cruising by Gerald Walker 192 Gerald Walker 0812813235 G 2 3.51 1970
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]]> 6592893 225 Miranda July 1416539670 G 0 to-read 3.70 2007
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]]> 137964
They call other towns.

They find the whole world empty.

But eventually they discover three other Kids their Age who are still alive in the town. They cannot imagine why the five of them seem to be the only ones left of the entire human race. They have only one thing in common. They were each directly or indirectly involved in the death of Betty Sue - the plain, shy girl who committed suicide only a short time ago. Betty Sue - the quiet, brilliant girl who wrote short stories about each of them. Stories of hate, of revenge, of death in a dead world.

It makes them wonder who Betty Sue really was.

Or what Betty Sue was.]]> 180 Christopher Pike 0671690582 G 0 to-read 3.82 1991
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]]> 5297
In this celebrated work Wilde forged a devastating portrait of the effects of evil and debauchery on a young aesthete in late-19th-century England. Combining elements of the Gothic horror novel and decadent French fiction, the book centers on a striking premise: As Dorian Gray sinks into a life of crime and gross sensuality, his body retains perfect youth and vigor while his recently painted portrait grows day by day into a hideous record of evil, which he must keep hidden from the world. For over a century, this mesmerizing tale of horror and suspense has enjoyed wide popularity. It ranks as one of Wilde's most important creations and among the classic achievements of its kind.]]> 272 Oscar Wilde G 3 4.13 1890
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rating: 3
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]]> 60965426 From the legendary music producer, a master at helping people connect with the wellsprings of their creativity, comes a beautifully crafted book many years in the making that offers that same deep wisdom to all of us.

"A gorgeous and inspiring work of art on creation, creativity, the work of the artist. It will gladden the hearts of writers and artists everywhere, and get them working again with a new sense of meaning and direction. A stunning accomplishment." --Anne Lamott

"I set out to write a book about what to do to make a great work of art. Instead, it revealed itself to be a book on how to be." --Rick Rubin

Many famed music producers are known for a particular sound that has its day. Rick Rubin is known for something else: creating a space where artists of all different genres and traditions can home in on who they really are and what they really offer. He has made a practice of helping people transcend their self-imposed expectations in order to reconnect with a state of innocence from which the surprising becomes inevitable. Over the years, as he has thought deeply about where creativity comes from and where it doesn't, he has learned that being an artist isn't about your specific output, it's about your relationship to the world. Creativity has a place in everyone's life, and everyone can make that place larger. In fact, there are few more important responsibilities.

The Creative Act is a beautiful and generous course of study that illuminates the path of the artist as a road we all can follow. It distills the wisdom gleaned from a lifetime's work into a luminous reading experience that puts the power to create moments--and lifetimes--of exhilaration and transcendence within closer reach for all of us.]]> 406 Rick Rubin 0593652886 G 3 4.00 2023
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average rating: 4.00
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]]> 4687 1064 John Irving 0786226749 G 0 to-read 4.16 1985
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]]> 7069 610 John Irving 0345915593 G 0 to-read 4.11 1978
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]]> 25168710 340 Dennis DeSantis 3981716507 G 0 to-read 4.47 2015
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]]> 38379
Asakawa, a hardworking journalist, is intrigued by his niece's inexplicable death. His investigation leads him from a metropolitan tokyo teeming with modern society's fears to a rural Japan--a mountain resort, a volcanic island, and a countryside clinic--haunted by the past. His attempt to solve the tape's mystery before it's too late--for everyone--assumes an increasingly deadly urgency. Ring is a chillingly told horror story, a masterfully suspenseful mystery, and post-modern trip.]]> 282 Kƍji Suzuki 1932234411 G 3 3.79 1991
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average rating: 3.79
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]]> 45024007 The noted inventor and futurist’s successor to his landmark book The Singularity Is Near explores how technology will transform the human race in the decades to come

Since it was first published in 2005, Ray Kurzweil’s The Singularity Is Near and its vision of an exponential future have spawned a worldwide movement. Kurzweil's predictions about technological advancements have largely come true, with concepts like AI, intelligent machines, and biotechnology now widely familiar to the public.

In this entirely new book Ray Kurzweil brings a fresh perspective to advances toward the Singularity—assessing his 1999 prediction that AI will reach human level intelligence by 2029 and examining the exponential growth of technology—that, in the near future, will expand human intelligence a millionfold and change human life forever. Among the topics he discusses are rebuilding the world, atom by atom with devices like nanobots; radical life extension beyond the current age limit of 120; reinventing intelligence by connecting our brains to the cloud; how exponential technologies are propelling innovation forward in all industries and improving all aspects of our well-being such as declining poverty and violence; and the growth of renewable energy and 3-D printing. He also considers the potential perils of biotechnology, nanotechnology, and artificial intelligence, including such topics of current controversy as how AI will impact employment and the safety of autonomous cars, and "After Life" technology, which aims to virtually revive deceased individuals through a combination of their data and DNA.

The culmination of six decades of research on artificial intelligence, The Singularity Is Nearer is Ray Kurzweil’s crowning contribution to the story of this science and the revolution that is to come.]]> 432 Ray Kurzweil 0399562761 G 4 3.85 2024
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]]> 43015073
In 1999, when Tom O'Neill was assigned a magazine piece about the thirtieth anniversary of the Manson murders, he worried there was nothing new to say. Weren't the facts indisputable? Charles Manson had ordered his teenage followers to commit seven brutal murders, and in his thrall, they'd gladly complied. But when O'Neill began reporting the story, he kept finding holes in the prosecutor Vincent Bugliosi's narrative, long enshrined in the best-selling Helter Skelter. Before long, O'Neill had questions about everything from the motive to the manhunt. Though he'd never considered himself a conspiracy theorist, the Manson murders swallowed the next two decades of his career. He was obsessed.

Searching but never speculative, CHAOS follows O'Neill's twenty-year effort to rebut the "official" story behind Manson. Who were his real friends in Hollywood, and how far would they go to hide their ties? Why didn't law enforcement act on their many chances to stop him? And how did he turn a group of peaceful hippies into remorseless killers? O'Neill's hunt for answers leads him from reclusive celebrities to seasoned spies, from the Summer of Love to the shadowy sites of the CIA's mind-control experiments, on a trail rife with cover-ups and coincidences.

Featuring hundreds of new interviews and dozens of never-before-seen documents from the LAPD, the FBI, and the CIA, CHAOS mounts an argument that could be, according to Los Angeles Deputy District Attorney Stephen Kay, strong enough to overturn the verdicts on the Manson murders. In those two dark nights in Los Angeles, O'Neill finds the story of California in the sixties: when charlatans mixed with prodigies, free love was as possible as brainwashing, and utopia-or dystopia-was just an acid trip away.



]]> 504 Tom O'Neill 0316477575 G 0 to-read 4.04 2019
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]]> 24113 777 Douglas R. Hofstadter 0465026567 G 0 to-read 4.29 1979
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]]> 791345
Everyone at Appleyard College for Young Ladies agreed it was just right for a picnic at Hanging Rock. After lunch, a group of three of the girls climbed into the blaze of the afternoon sun, pressing on through the scrub into the shadows of Hanging Rock. Further, higher, till at last they disappeared.

They never returned.

Whether Picnic at Hanging Rock is fact or fiction the reader must decide for themselves.]]> 189 Joan Lindsay 0099750619 G 2 3.65 1967
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More like 2.5. Well written, but felt tedious with an unsatisfying narrative and one dimensional characters.
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Hungry for power and knowledge, Sparrowhawk tampered with long-held secrets and loosed a terrible shadow upon the world. This is the tale of his testing, how he mastered the mighty words of power, tamed an ancient dragon, and crossed death's threshold to restore the balance.]]> 183 Ursula K. Le Guin G 0 to-read 4.02 1968
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]]> 1170307
Rynn is the little girl who lives in the house at the end of the lane with her father-or so she says. No one had seen the poet, Leslie Jacobs, for a long time, and though the pungent aroma of Gauloise filled the parlor with intimations of his presence, no one was certain he was there:

Not Mrs. Hallet, the real estate agent who'd rented the old house to the eminent English poet and his daughter and whose formidable manner, product of her impeccable Long Island lineage, brooked no betrayals, especially not from a thirteen-year-old...

Not her son Frank, whose Halloween visit, intruding on Rynn's birthday rituals, had been more trick than treat and whose own insidious motives would soon lock them both in a perilous contest of will...

Not the local policeman who came to call and, lured by what he had seen, returned...

Not the shy young amateur magician who arrived on an errand-and stayed to become confidant and co-conspirator...

Who was the little girl who lived in such strange seclusion at the end of the leaf-swept land? Lonely and innocent seeking shelter from a hostile world? Or consummate liar? Each for his own reason, the Hallets were determined to find out. And it was then that the terrible secrets of the house at the end of the lane emerged.

Moving with swift and shocking turnabout to a profoundly disturbing denouement, here is a fine and freezing novel of suspense that probes the subtle bonds of innocence to evil.]]> 254 Laird Koenig 0285621254 G 0 to-read 3.98 1974
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]]> 21787
As a boy, William Goldman claims, he loved to hear his father read the S. Morgenstern classic, The Princess Bride. But as a grown-up he discovered that the boring parts were left out of good old Dad's recitation, and only the "good parts" reached his ears.

Now Goldman does Dad one better. He's reconstructed the "Good Parts Version" to delight wise kids and wide-eyed grownups everywhere.

What's it about? Fencing. Fighting. True Love. Strong Hate. Harsh Revenge. A Few Giants. Lots of Bad Men. Lots of Good Men. Five or Six Beautiful Women. Beasties Monstrous and Gentle. Some Swell Escapes and Captures. Death, Lies, Truth, Miracles, and a Little Sex.

In short, it's about everything.]]> 429 William Goldman 0345418263 G 0 to-read 4.27 1973
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]]> 123216880 Madvillainy as a representation of two genius musical minds melding to form one revered supervillain. A product of circumstance, the album came together soon after MF DOOM's resurgence and Madlib's reluctant return from avant-garde jazz to hip-hop.

Written from the alternating perspectives of three fake music journalist superheroes-featuring interviews with Wildchild, M.E.D., Walasia, Daedelus, Stones Throw execs, and many other real individuals involved with the album's creation-this book blends fiction and non-fiction to celebrate Madvillainy not just as an album, but as a folkloric artifact. It is one specific retelling of a story which, like Madvillain's music, continues to spawn infinite legends.]]> 161 Will Hagle 1501389246 G 0 to-read 4.20 2023
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]]> 922821 269 John C. Lilly 0517530368 G 0 to-read 3.95 1967
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]]> 208245 160 John C. Lilly 051752757X G 0 to-read 4.09 1968
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]]> 21927657
In this fascinating overview, Benjamin Zeller not only explores the question of why the members of Heaven's Gate committed ritual suicides, but interrogates the origin and evolution of the religion, its appeal, and its practices. By tracking the development of the history, social structure, and worldview of Heaven's Gate, Zeller draws out the ways in which the movement was both a reflection and a microcosm of larger American culture.The group emerged out of engagement with Evangelical Christianity, the New Age movement, science fiction and UFOs, and conspiracy theories, and it evolved in response to the religious quests of baby boomers, new religions of the counterculture, and the narcissistic pessimism of the 1990s. Thus, Heaven's Gate not only reflects the context of its environment, but also reveals how those forces interacted in the form of a single religious body.

In the only book-length study of Heaven's Gate, Zeller traces the roots of the movement, examines its beliefs and practices, and tells the captivating story of the people of Heaven's Gate.]]> 304 Benjamin E. Zeller 1479881066 G 3 3.77 2014
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]]> 243725 531 Kevin Kelly 0201483408 G 0 to-read 4.22 1992
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]]> 1150471 A groundbreaking intertwining of the philosophy of art and psychoanalytic theory

Artist, psychoanalyst, and feminist theorist Bracha Ettinger presents an original theoretical exploration of shared affect and emergent expression, across the thresholds of identity and memory. In The Matrixial Borderspace Ettinger works through Lacan's late works, the anti-Oedipal perspectives of Deleuze and Guattari, as well as object-relations theory to critique the phallocentrism of mainstream Lacanian theory and to rethink the masculine-feminine opposition.

Edited and with an afterword by Brian Massumi]]> 208 Bracha Ettinger 0816635870 G 0 to-read 4.41 2006
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]]> 195367901
Building SimCity explores the history of computer simulation by chronicling one of the most influential simulation games ever SimCity . As author Chaim Gingold explains, Will Wright, the visionary designer behind the urban planning game, created SimCity in part to learn about cities, appropriating ideas from traditions in which computers are used as tools for modeling and thinking about the world as a complex system. As such, SimCity is a microcosm of the histories and cultures of computer simulation that engages with questions, themes, and representational techniques that reach back to the earliest computer simulations.

Gingold uses SimCity to explore a web of interrelated topics in the history of technology, software, and simulation, taking us far and wide—from the dawn of programmable computers to miniature cities made of construction paper and role-play. An unprecedented history of Maxis, the company founded to bring SimCity to market, the book reveals Maxis’s complex relations with venture capitalists, Nintendo, and the Santa Fe Institute, which shaped the evolution of Will Wright’s career; Maxis’s failure to back The Sims to completion; and the company’s sale to Electronic Arts.

A lavishly visual book, Building SimCity boasts a treasure trove of visual matter to help bring its wide-ranging subjects to life, including painstakingly crafted diagrams that explain SimCity ’s operation, the Kodachrome photographs taken by Charles Eames of schoolchildren making model cities, and Nintendo’s manga-style “Dr. Wrightâ€� character design, just to name a few.]]> 486 Chaim Gingold 0262547481 G 0 to-read 3.92
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]]> 62003142
Can he and Roz, his frequently incorrect female editor, hunt down these incarnate denizens of Nick’s rampaging imaginata before they destroy Stalkford, outer Stalkford and possibly slightly further?

From the twisted genius of horror master Garth Marenghi—Frighternerman, Darkscribe, Doomsage (plus Man-Shee)—come three dark tales from his long-lost multi-volume epic: TerrorTome.]]> 295 Garth Marenghi 1529399408 G 0 to-read 3.81 2022
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]]> 44154353 51 Bracha Ettinger 0952489902 G 0 to-read 0.0
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]]> 13589153
Ray Kurzweil is arguably today’s most influential—and often controversial—futurist. In How to Create a Mind , Kurzweil presents a provocative exploration of the most important project in human-machine civilization—reverse engineering the brain to understand precisely how it works and using that knowledge to create even more intelligent machines.

Kurzweil discusses how the brain functions, how the mind emerges from the brain, and the implications of vastly increasing the powers of our intelligence in addressing the world’s problems. He thoughtfully examines emotional and moral intelligence and the origins of consciousness and envisions the radical possibilities of our merging with the intelligent technology we are creating.

Certain to be one of the most widely discussed and debated science books of the year, How to Create a Mind is sure to take its place alongside Kurzweil’s previous classics which include Fantastic Voyage: Live Long Enough to Live Forever and The Age of Spiritual Machines .]]> 336 Ray Kurzweil 0670025291 G 3 3.95 2012
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Capitalism is dead. Welcome to technofeudalism. The perfect Christmas gift for the political visionaries in your life.

In his boldest and most far-reaching book, the visionary economist and number-one bestselling author Yanis Varoufakis shows how the owners of big tech became the world's feudal overlords � replacing capitalism with a fundamentally new system that enslaves our minds, defies democracy and rewrite the rules of global power.

But as Varoufakis also reveals, technofeudalism contains new opportunities to thwart and overturn it, bringing into focus more clearly than ever the revolution we need to escape our digital prison.

‘An epochal, once-in-a-millennium shift . . . this isn't just new technology. This is the world grappling with an entirely new economic system and therefore political powerâ€� Observer

‘An urgent demand to seize the means of computationâ€� CORY DOCTOROW

A FINANCIAL TIMES BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR]]> 224 Yanis Varoufakis G 0 to-read 4.03 2023
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]]> 138378661
Contemporary cultural style boosts transparency and instantaneity. These are values absorbed from our current economic conditions of "disintermediation": cutting out the middleman. Like Uber, but for art. Immediacy names this style to make sense of what we lose when the contradictions of twenty-first-century capitalism demand that aesthetics negate mediation. Surging realness as an aesthetic program synchs with the economic imperative to intensify circulation when production stagnates. "Flow" is the ultimate twenty-first-century buzzword, but speedy circulation grinds art down to the nub. And the bad news is that political turmoil and social challenges require more mediation. Collective will, inspiring ideas, and deliberate construction are the only way out, but our dominant style forgoes them. Considering original streaming TV, popular literature, artworld trends, and academic theories, Immediacy explains the recent obsession with immersion and today’s intolerance of representation, and points to alternative forms in photography, TV, novels, and constructive theory that prioritize distance, impersonality, and big ideas instead.]]> 240 Anna Kornbluh 180429134X G 0 to-read 3.95
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]]> 127282429 From a global icon, a bold, essential account of how a fear of gender is fueling reactionary politics around the world.

Judith Butler, the groundbreaking thinker whose iconic book Gender Trouble redefined how we think about gender and sexuality, confronts the attacks on “genderâ€� that have become central to right-wing movements today. Global networks have formed “anti-gender ideology movementsâ€� that are dedicated to circulating a fantasy that gender is a dangerous, perhaps diabolical, threat to families, local cultures, civilization―and even “manâ€� himself. Inflamed by the rhetoric of public figures, this movement has sought to nullify reproductive justice, undermine protections against sexual and gender violence, and strip trans and queer people of their rights to pursue a life without fear of violence.

The aim of Who’s Afraid of Gender? is not to offer a new theory of gender but to examine how “genderâ€� has become a phantasm for emerging authoritarian regimes, fascist formations, and transexclusionary feminists. In their vital, courageous new book, Butler illuminates the concrete ways that this phantasm of “genderâ€� collects and displaces anxieties and fears of destruction. Operating in tandem with deceptive accounts of “critical race theoryâ€� and xenophobic panics about migration, the anti-gender movement demonizes struggles for equality, fuels aggressive nationalism, and leaves millions of people vulnerable to subjugation.

An essential intervention into one of the most fraught issues of our moment, Who’s Afraid of Gender? is a bold call to refuse the alliance with authoritarian movements and to make a broad coalition with all those whose struggle for equality is linked with fighting injustice. Imagining new possibilities for both freedom and solidarity, Butler offers us a hopeful work of social and political analysis that is both timely and timeless―a book whose verve and rigor only they could deliver.]]> 320 Judith Butler 0374608229 G 0 to-read 4.02 2024
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]]> 27040338 Star Trek is set in an amazing utopian universe of faster-than-light travel, of “beam me up, Scotty,â€� and Vulcan salutes. It’s also a universe where war and poverty have been eradicated, money doesn’t exist, and work is indistinguishable from leisure. In this ground-breaking book, timed to coincide with the fiftieth anniversary of Star Trek’s first episode, Manu Saadia takes a deep dive into the show’s most radical and provocative aspect: its detailed and consistent economic vision.

Could we create such a utopia here on Earth? And why has Star Trek’s future had such staying power in our cultural imagination? Trekonomics looks at the morals, values, and hard economics that underpin the seriesâ€� ideal society, and its sources of inspiration both inside and outside the science-fiction canon. After reading this book, you’ll be able to answer the question: If you could live in Star Trek’s economic utopia, would you want to?]]> 265 Manu Saadia 1941758754 G 0 to-read 3.85 2016
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]]> 200196195
David Ignatius is known for his uncanny ability, in novel after novel, to predict the next great national security headline. In Phantom Orbit, he presents a story both searing and topical, with stakes as far-reaching as outer space. It follows Ivan Volkov, a Russian student in Beijing, who discovers an unsolved puzzle in the writings of the seventeenth-century astronomer Johannes Kepler. He takes the puzzle to a senior scientist in the Chinese space program and declares his intention to solve it. Volkov returns to Moscow and continues his secret work. The puzzle holds untold consequences for space warfare.

The years pass, and they are not kind to Volkov. After the loss of his son, a prosecutor who’d been too tough on corruption, and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Volkov makes the fraught decision to contact the CIA. He writes: Satellites are your enemies, especially your own. . . . Hidden codes can make time stop and turn north into south. . . . If you are smart, you will find me.

With this timely novel, Ignatius addresses our moment of renewed interest in space exploration amid geopolitical tumult. Phantom Orbit brims with the author’s vital insights and casts Volkov as the man who, at the risk of his life, may be able to stop the Doomsday clock.]]> 384 David Ignatius 1324050918 G 0 to-read 3.68 2024
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]]> 44492285
Dune Messiah continues the story of Paul Atreides, better known--and feared--as the man christened Muad'Dib. As Emperor of the Known Universe, he possesses more power than a single man was ever meant to wield. Worshipped as a religious icon by the fanatical Fremens, Paul faces the enmity of the political houses he displaced when he assumed the throne--and a conspiracy conducted within his own sphere of influence.

And even as House Atreides begins to crumble around him from the machinations of his enemies, the true threat to Paul comes to his lover, Chani, and the unborn heir to his family's dynasty...

Includes an introduction by Brian Herbert]]> 336 Frank Herbert 0593098234 G 4 Maybe more like 3.5? 3.89 1969
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]]> 3382 198 Douglas Coupland 0060987219 G 2 3.28 1996
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rating: 2
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]]> 91746 Diary of a Genius stands as one of the seminal texts of Surrealism, revealing the most astonishing and intimate workings of the mind of Salvador Dalí, the eccentric polymath genius who became the living embodiment of Surrealism, the 20th century's most intensely subversive, disturbing and influential art movement. Dalí's second volume of autobiography, Diary of a Genius covers his life from 1952 to 1963, during which years we learn of his amour fou for his wife Gala, and their relationship both at home in Cadaqués and during bizarre world travels. We also learn how Dalí draws inspiration from excrement, rotten fish and Vermeer's Lacemaker to enter his "rhinocerontic" period, preaching his post-holocaustal gospels of nuclear mysticism and cosmogenic atavism; and we follow the labyrinthine mental journeys that lead to the creation of such paintings as the Assumption, and his film script The Flesh Wheelbarrow.

This new expanded edition includes a brilliant and revelatory essay on Salvador DalĂ­, and the importance of his art to the 20th century, by the author J. G. Ballard.]]> 274 Salvador DalĂ­ 0971457832 G 0 to-read 3.89 1964
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]]> 908311 214 Joanna Russ 0807063134 G 0 to-read 3.54 1975
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]]> 1047346
Irene, a rebellious product of an American 1950s upbringing, has fled from a repressive and sexist society into a life of apparent equality and adventure as part of the elite Trans-Temporal Authority's cadre of travelers. Under the tutelage of Ernst, a friend/lover and teacher/father, Irene has achieved status and dignity. Irene and Ernst are assigned to a Muslim world where they meet Zubedeyeh, a young girl whose creativity is being transformed into madness by the male chauvinistic society in which she lives. Vowing to rescue her, Irene unleashes a destructive cycle of violence. Originally published in 1978, The Two of Them is a powerful portrait of a future sexist society. This modern classic conveys its politics with rigor and complexity, in a story filled with suspense and unforgettable characters.]]> 168 Joanna Russ 0819567604 G 0 to-read 3.63 1978
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]]> 100915
Lucy is the first to find the secret of the wardrobe in the professor's mysterious old house. At first her brothers and sister don't believe her when she tells of her visit to the land of Narnia. But soon Edmund, then Peter and Susan step through the wardrobe themselves. In Narnia they find a country buried under the evil enchantment of the White Witch. When they meet the Lion Aslan, they realize they've been called to a great adventure and bravely join the battle to free Narnia from the Witch's sinister spell.]]> 206 C.S. Lewis G 0 4.24 1950
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]]> 61215384
The inspiration for the upcoming original series on Prime Video, The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power.

The Return of the King is the third part of J.R.R. Tolkien’s epic adventure The Lord of the Rings.

One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them, One Ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them.

The Dark Lord has risen, and as he unleashes hordes of Orcs to conquer all Middle-earth, Frodo and Sam struggle deep into his realm in Mordor.

To defeat Sauron, the One Ring must be destroyed in the fires of Mount Doom. But the way is impossibly hard, and Frodo is weakening. The Ring corrupts all who bear it and Frodo’s time is running out.

Will Sam and Frodo succeed, or will the Dark Lord rule Middle-earth once more?]]> 432 J.R.R. Tolkien G 4 4.67 1955
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]]> 179780 385 William Peter Blatty G 0 to-read 4.20 1971
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]]> 195040 Book by Jarman, Derek 320 Derek Jarman 087951549X G 0 to-read 4.32 1991
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]]> 5907 Written for J.R.R. Tolkien’s own children, The Hobbit met with instant critical acclaim when it was first published in 1937. Now recognized as a timeless classic, this introduction to the hobbit Bilbo Baggins, the wizard Gandalf, Gollum, and the spectacular world of Middle-earth recounts of the adventures of a reluctant hero, a powerful and dangerous ring, and the cruel dragon Smaug the Magnificent. The text in this 372-page paperback edition is based on that first published in Great Britain by Collins Modern Classics (1998), and includes a note on the text by Douglas A. Anderson (2001).]]> 366 J.R.R. Tolkien G 0 4.29 1937
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The inspiration for the upcoming original series on Prime Video, The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power.

The Two Towers is the second part of J.R.R. Tolkien’s epic adventure The Lord of the Rings.

One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them, One Ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them.

Frodo and his Companions of the Ring have been beset by danger during their quest to prevent the Ruling Ring from falling into the hands of the Dark Lord by destroying it in the Cracks of Doom. They have lost the wizard, Gandalf, in a battle in the Mines of Moria. And Boromir, seduced by the power of the Ring, tried to seize it by force. While Frodo and Sam made their escape, the rest of the company was attacked by Orcs. Now they continue the journey alone down the great River Anduin—alone, that is, save for the mysterious creeping figure that follows wherever they go.]]> 448 J.R.R. Tolkien G 4 4.60 1954
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average rating: 4.60
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rating: 4
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]]> 249 Tropic of Cancer, Henry Miller’s masterpiece, was banned as obscene in this country for twenty-seven years after its first publication in Paris in 1934. Only a historic court ruling that changed American censorship standards, ushering in a new era of freedom and frankness in modern literature, permitted the publication of this first volume of Miller’s famed mixture of memoir and fiction, which chronicles with unapologetic gusto the bawdy adventures of a young expatriate writer, his friends, and the characters they meet in Paris in the 1930s. Tropic of Cancer is now considered, as Norman Mailer said, "one of the ten or twenty great novels of our century."]]> 318 Henry Miller 0802131786 G 0 to-read 3.69 1934
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