"Reality is a nice place to visit, but you wouldn't want to live there." -John Barth
by Hugh Howey “They ought to have been left on their own, both people and the planet. Mankind had the right to go extinct. That’s what life did: it went extinct. It made room for the next in line.” Does the end justify the means? The debate on this theme has raged for a long... Continue Reading →
by John Brunner “All we learn from history is that we learn nothing from history. I know people who can’t even learn from what happened this morning.” In the near future, practically the present day when placing the book in context, A.I. named Shalmaneser is on the verge of actual blazing intelligence. A scientist from... Continue Reading →
by Orson Scott Card "What is it next time? My army in a cage without guns, with the rest of the Battle School against them? How about a little equality?" "Ender, if you're on one side of the battle, it won't be equal no matter what the conditions are." Ender’s Game, originally a short story... Continue Reading →
by Hugh Howey "It was supposed to be people who died and cultures that lasted. Now it was the other way around." Prequel to the best-selling Wool and containing a few of the same characters, in Shift Howey charges himself with reasoning how and why the world ended. Despite the majority of the action happening... Continue Reading →
by Charles Beaumont “I just lie awake at night and thank God that I’m bald.” Making your way through this gigantic book brings with it a revelation. You are not reading a book, you're staring directly into the imagination of one of our best speculative fiction writers, one of our best situational thinkers. As the... Continue Reading →
by Brian Aldiss "When I woke, I was not dead." In the near future, time is becoming unhinged and Joe Bodenland inadvertently travels back to the 19th century where he meets Mary Shelley, the real Victor Frankenstein and the very real monster Mrs. Shelley wrote about. And as the original book so strongly implied, who’s... Continue Reading →
by Hugh Howey "It turned out that some crooked things looked even worse when straightened." Due to extremely toxic factors on the Earth's surface, survivors eek out an existence in a huge, underground bunker. With the Earth's surface having been uninhabitable for hundreds, possibly thousands of years, the remaining men and women know of no other... Continue Reading →
by Dean Koontz “You don’t have to make the world peaceful,” she said. “It is to begin with. You just have to learn not to disturb things.” Mr. Koontz has an entertaining and thoroughly enjoyable, worth every penny and then some, but not often eye-opening. If you're a reader of his novels but haven't seen... Continue Reading →
by Clive Barker Originally published in ’97 as part of Douglas Winter’s Millennium, the stories ‘Men and Sin’ and ‘A Moment at the River’s Heart’ make up this release. Two men, 1,000 years apart, attempt to locate and exact revenge upon their spouses’ murderers. That is the plot in its oversimplified form, but laid over... Continue Reading →
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