"Reality is a nice place to visit, but you wouldn't want to live there." -John Barth
by Cormac McCarthy Are you okay? he said. The boy nodded. Then they set out along the blacktop in the gun-metal light, shuffling through the ash, each the other’s world entire. Any review of this book should start with a long, slow whistle. One whose tone crawls down to the low frequencies, realizes it’s trapped... Continue Reading →
by Clifford D. Simak So long as there were no questions, there need not be any answers. The strange figure of Enoch roams the land, rifle slung in arm, just as he’s been doing for the last 100 years. And since he lives such a solitary life, the people who notice his longevity leave him... Continue Reading →
by A.E. van Vogt “Our science is a joke, our education a mass of lies. And every year the wreck of human aspirations and human hopes piles higher around us. Every year there’s greater dislocation, more poverty, more misery. Nothing is left to us but hatred, and hatred isn’t enough.” Jommy, a nine-year-old boy and... Continue Reading →
by Clifford D. Simak “But for speech and hands, we might be dogs and dogs be men.” The story opens with Dogs, sitting around discussing the possible previous existence of a creature called Man. But they cannot prove his existence one way or another, so they reference a document they’ve found containing eight stories concerning... Continue Reading →
by Arthur C. Clarke In his play he had now found the ultimate, deadly toy which might wreck what was left of human civilization—but whatever the outcome, to him it would still be a game. Earth has changed from what we now recognize, being hundreds of millions of years in the future, and mankind both... Continue Reading →
by Theodore Sturgeon “No one knows what’s really wrong with you but you; no one can find a cure for it but you; no one but you can identify it as a cure; and once you find it, no one but you can do anything about it.” The twin sisters can teleport. The baby holds... Continue Reading →
by Dan Simmons “Humans have been waiting for Jesus and Yahweh and E.T. to save their asses since before they covered those asses with bearskins and came out of the cave,” she said. “They’ll have to keep waiting. This is our business … our fight … and we have to take care of it ourselves.”... Continue Reading →
by Jack Williamson Utterly benevolent, more dreadful than anything evil, these perfect and eternal keepers of mankind prohibited even the freedom of despair. Originally published as a novelette (With Folded Hands) and expanded to novel form a year later, The Humanoids opens with a human race that's spread across the galaxy but never managed to shed itself... Continue Reading →
by John Blackburn “Gentlemen, a pestilence has broken out in the northern regions of the Soviet Union. A pestilence so terrible that if we cannot stop it we are finished. And so are you.” Part horror, part science fiction and part crime procedural, A Scent of New-Mown Hay takes place during and slightly after World... Continue Reading →
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