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The Winter of Our Discontent by John Steinbeck

Hamlet's Enemey by Theodore Lidz

Killing Floor by Lee Child

The Client by John Grisham

God is not Great by Christopher Hitchens

The Uplift War by David Brin

Monkey by Wu Cheng'en

Get Shorty by Elmore Leonard

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The Winter of Our Discontent – 4/5 This is John Steinbeck’s last novel and it begins with our narrator, Ethan Allen Hawley, trying to reckon with what it’s like to have once had money and then not to. He’s a veteran who came home to find his father had squandered the family fortune to make a risky investment (war profiteering) that didn’t pan out. So now a while on, married with two kids, Ethan works out a grocery store for an Italian ex-pat. He’s offered […]

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The Machine Gunners by Robert Westall

Robot Visions by Isaac Asimov

The Between by Tananarive Due

Mad about Shakespeare by Jonathan Bate

Startide Rising by David Brin

The Anthropocene Reviewed by John Green

The Woman Who Killed the Fish by Clarice Lispector

Real Hero Shit by Kendra Wells

We had to Remove this Post by Hanna Bervoets

The King's Indian by John Gardner

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The Machine Gunners – 4/5 I picked up this book because it was on the Guardian’s top 1000 novels list and since I had never heard of it, it sounded interesting. It IS interesting, and it’s more interesting that the title might otherwise suggest to you. There’s some irony in the title because the would-be “machine gunners” are a group of raggedy London kids during the blitz. This group is mad as hell that the blitz has otherwise disrupted their childhood, and the novel does […]

Sundiver – David Brin (1980)

Sundiver by David Brin

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David Brin’s first novel and the first novel in his Uplift Saga books. I think there are six of them in total. Like first novels, there’s a lot thrown at the wall here. Brin was about 30 when he wrote this book, but he was also working on his PhD in Astronomy at the same time. The book itself feels somewhere in between a more hard sci-fi Neal Stephenson or a Kim Stanley Robinson book with a sense of humor. Spitting the difference. As hard […]

Bootstrapping a nation one letter at a time.

The Postman by David Brin

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Gordon Krantz has survived for 16 years after the one-week war which sapped the strength of America and the rest of the world. After the war came a three-year nuclear winter; it’s been colder than normally ever since. He was a soldier during the war, guarding vital food supplied while the world was burning around him and his squad. They failed. Gordon was the only one who survived. Since then he’s been drifting westwards, learning to survive, avoid radiation hot spots, loot like in Fallout […]

It is said that power corrupts, but actually it’s more true that power attracts the corruptible.

The Postman by David Brin

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It’s funny how much interesting and less goofy this book is than the movie version that was rightfully panned in the mid90s. Although, I will say that I loved it because it came at a time that was woefully underserved in terms of good post-apocalyptic stories out there in the mainstream. The book takes places after such a collapse and involves a man named Gordon travelling from town to town in the Pacific Northwest, which should rightfully give you some Ursula K Leguin vibes. He […]



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