"Reality is a nice place to visit, but you wouldn't want to live there." -John Barth
by Harlan Ellison “There is no home, if there is no rest. There is no rest if there is no Home.” These tales are like that black and white cigarette commercial from The Simpsons--“I don't know what's in 'em; I just know I can't stop smoking 'em.” Story after story pounds the brain, and you'll... Continue Reading →
by Ray Bradbury “Amoebas cannot sin because they reproduce by fission. They do not covet wives or murder each other. Add sex to amoebas, add arms and legs, and you would have murder and adultery.” The Martian Chronicles consists of a series of short stories stitched together to form a cohesive whole greater than the... Continue Reading →
by Harlan Ellison “All hope is gone. There is no return save by miracles, and there are no more miracles for the common among common men.” This book occupies a special place, being the only of its kind, in that it sits nearly unbeaten at the top of the ‘Rated Collections’ pile without a single... Continue Reading →
by Weston Ochse “Screams are just pain leaving the body.” Jack Walker, SEAL in training, is pulled weeks before graduation and given assignment to a small, unknown group. Initially resenting the move and lamenting his chance to lead a ‘normal’ SEAL life, he soon realizes that not only are these soldiers the finest in the... Continue Reading →
by Andy Weir “I am smiling a great smile. The smile of a man who fucked with his car and didn’t break it.” The six person landing team on Mars encounters an unexpected sandstorm and witnesses one of the their crew impaled on a radio antennae go spinning out of sight as the other 5... Continue Reading →
by Ernest Cline “It suddenly occurred to me just how absurd this scene was: a guy wearing a suit of armor, standing next to an undead king, both hunched over the controls of a classic arcade game.” Rejoice, nerds, for celebration is at hand! Mr. Cline’s book is a bizarre melding of cyberpunk and 80’s... Continue Reading →
by Neal Stephenson “You don’t respect those people very much, Y.T., because you’re young and arrogant. But I don’t respect them much either, because I’m old and wise.” Snow Crash is a cyberpunk story set in a futuristic world where countries have collapsed into region-states, and the government of each region is left to whatever... Continue Reading →
by Glenn Cooper In a modern-day search for the Holy Grail, Mr. Cooper weaves a tale rich with science and history as the story moves back and forth through time. Arthur, a chemist and descendant of Thomas Malory, the real-world scholar who wrote the definitive text on King Arthur himself (Le Morte d’Arthur), is a... Continue Reading →
by Harlan Ellison “A world that has grown so complex and uncaring with systems and brutalization of individuals because of the inertia produced by those systems’ perpetuation of self, that merely to live is to be assaulted daily by circumstances.” Shatterday is another collection favorited by one of the best short story writers in the... Continue Reading →
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