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Book Review: United States of Japan by Peter Tieryas
Look, I saw a book with a giant mech on it and proclaimed itself about United States of Japan. This was worth a laugh, an ‘ah, how silly’, because indeed it was silly. But then something changed. I saw an endorsement … Continue reading
Book Review: Mockingbird by Walter Tevis
It took Walter Tevis 17 years from the published of his utterly sublime novel The Man Who Fell to Earth and the publication of his next novel Mockingbird. In that intervening time he had developed two relatively full-time jobs: professor … Continue reading
Posted in Book Review, fiction
Tagged Brave New World, dystopia, Idiocracy, Mockingbird, Penises, religion, Robots, sci-fi, science fiction, sex, suicide, the man who fell to earth, Walter Tevis
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Book Review: The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 by Lawrence Wright
In an interview, Wright mentioned that he was using three tome-filled bookcases in order to do research on the book that would eventually become The Looming Tower. Now, I’ve never written a non-fiction book, hell, by any reasonable standard I … Continue reading
Posted in Book Review, Nonfiction
Tagged 9/11, Afghanistan, Al-Qaeda, american history, Extremism, history, Islam, Lawrence Wright, politics, religion, terrorism, The Looming Tower, war
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Book Review: Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson
I first met Stephenson back in 2004 in a copy of Cryptonomicon I found at Barnes and Noble. I read the first couple chapters, enjoyed it and then made a terrible mistake. I looked at the author biography in the … Continue reading
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Tagged america, Anarcho-Capitalism, Author Bio, cyberpunk, Hackers, Neal Stephenson, post-cyberpunk, religion, science fiction, Snow Crash, Virtual Reality, William Gibson
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Coarseness grips my limbs, roping hands to feet. The musk of sweaty sulfur burns my sinuses, bringing clarity to the face of calm unhurried justice. Pain heard but not felt by the desperate choking screams as my shoulders fold back … Continue reading
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