en-US Sat, 17 May 2025 03:14:51 -0700 60 144 41 /images/layout/goodreads_logo_144.jpg 59040983 Red Pill arrives in the Berlin suburb of Wannsee and struggles to accomplish anything at all. Instead of working on the book he has proposed to write, he takes long walks and binge-watches "Blue Lives"--a violent cop show that becomes weirdly compelling in its bleak, Darwinian view of life--and soon begins to wonder if his writing has any value at all.

Wannsee is a place full of ghosts: across the lake the narrator can see the villa where the Nazis planned the Final Solution, and in his walks he passes the grave of the Romantic writer Heinrich von Kleist, who killed himself after deciding that "no happiness was possible here on earth." When some friends drag him to a party where he meets Anton, the creator of "Blue Lives," the narrator begins to believe that the two of them are involved in a cosmic battle, and that Anton is "red-pilling" his viewers--turning them towards an ugly, alt-rightish worldview--ultimately forcing the narrator to wonder if he is losing his mind.]]> 284 Hari Kunzru 1471194507 Daniel 3 3.37 2020
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]]> 123668 172 James Blish 0380595680 Daniel 0 currently-reading 3.84 1968
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]]> 37941599 Since their discovery more than 160 years ago, Neanderthals have metamorphosed from the losers of the human family tree to A-list hominins.

In Kindred, Rebecca Wragg Sykes uses her experience at the cutting-edge of Palaeolithic research to share our new understanding of Neanderthals, shoving aside clichés of rag-clad brutes in an icy wasteland. She reveals them to be curious, clever connoisseurs of their world, technologically inventive and ecologically adaptable. Above all, they were successful survivors for more than 300,000 years, during times of massive climatic upheaval.

At a time when our species has never faced greater threats, we’re obsessed with what makes us special. But, much of what defines us was also in Neanderthals, and their DNA is still inside us. Planning, co-operation, altruism, craftsmanship, aesthetic sense, imagination... perhaps even a desire for transcendence beyond mortality.

It is only by understanding them, that we can truly understand ourselves.

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]]> 340819
This is a novel Greg Bear wrote in 1985. For novelette by the same name written in 1983 and published in Analog magazine see here: Blood Music.]]> 344 Greg Bear 1596871067 Daniel 5 3.85 1985
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]]> 21020588 Kindred is Hugo and Nebula Award winner Octavia E. Butler's 1979 masterpiece. An essential read which explores themes of racial and gender identity with insight and originality, for fans of the Hulu TV adaptation of Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale. 'A shattering work of art' Los Angeles Herald-Examiner

On her twenty-sixth birthday, Dana and her husband are moving into their apartment when she starts to feel dizzy. She falls to her knees, nauseous. Then the world falls away.

She finds herself at the edge of a green wood by a vast river. A child is screaming. Wading into the water, she pulls him to safety, only to find herself face to face with a very old looking rifle, in the hands of the boy's father. She's terrified. The next thing she knows she's back in her apartment, soaking wet. It's the most terrifying experience of her life ... until it happens again.

The longer Dana spends in nineteenth century Maryland - a very dangerous place for a black woman - the more aware she is that her life might be over before it's even begun.]]> 295 Octavia E. Butler 1472214811 Daniel 5 4.28 1979
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]]> 106924 235 Christopher Priest 0575075791 Daniel 1 3.83 1984
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]]> 142181 239 Christopher Priest 0060134216 Daniel 5 3.94 1974
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]]> 125991902
Galerie d'anecdotes extraordinaires � parfois trop belles pour être vraies, souvent trop vraies pour être belles � et de portraits saisissants des plus grands esprits du siècle passé, Lumières aveugles avance sur la ligne trouble qui sépare le génie de la folie, nous entraînant avec verve, passion et suspense dans les coulisses de la science.]]> 192 Benjamín Labatut Daniel 5 4.21 2020
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]]> 8935689
Within the cosmic conflict, an individual crusade. Deep within a fabled labyrinth on a barren world, a Planet of the Dead proscribed to mortals, lay a fugitive Mind. Both the Culture and the Idirans sought it. It was the fate of Horza, the Changer, and his motley crew of unpredictable mercenaries, human and machine, actually to find it, and with it their own destruction.]]> 467 Iain M. Banks 1857231384 Daniel 1 3.86 1987
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]]> 199635125
Sharply observant and outrageously funny, Rejection is a provocative plunge into the touchiest problems of modern life. The seven connected stories seamlessly transition between the personal crises of a complex ensemble and the comic tragedies of sex, relationships, identity, and the internet.

In “The Feminist,� a young man’s passionate allyship turns to furious nihilism as he realizes, over thirty lonely years, that it isn’t getting him laid. A young woman’s unrequited crush in “Pics� spirals into borderline obsession and the systematic destruction of her sense of self. And in “Ahegao; or, The Ballad of Sexual Repression,� a shy late bloomer’s flailing efforts at a first relationship leads to a life-upending mistake. As the characters pop up in each other’s dating apps and social media feeds, or meet in dimly lit bars and bedrooms, they reveal the ways our delusions can warp our desire for connection.

These brilliant satires explore the underrated sorrows of rejection with the authority of a modern classic and the manic intensity of a manifesto. Audacious and unforgettable, Rejection is a stunning mosaic that redefines what it means to be rejected by lovers, friends, society, and oneself.]]> 272 Tony Tulathimutte 0063337878 Daniel 4 3.86 2024
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]]> 40376072
Long ago, Earth's terraforming program sent ships out to build new homes for humanity among the stars and made an unexpected discovery: a planet with life. But the scientists were unaware that the alien ecosystem was more developed than the primitive life forms originally discovered.

Now, thousands of years later, the Portiids and their humans have sent an exploration vessel following fragmentary radio signals. They discover a system in crisis, warring factions trying to recover from an apocalyptic catastrophe arising from what the early terraformers awoke all those years before.]]> 597 Adrian Tchaikovsky Daniel 4 4.02 2019
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]]> 25499718
WHO WILL INHERIT THIS NEW EARTH?

The last remnants of the human race left a dying Earth, desperate to find a new home among the stars. Following in the footsteps of their ancestors, they discover the greatest treasure of the past age—a world terraformed and prepared for human life.

But all is not right in this new Eden. In the long years since the planet was abandoned, the work of its architects has borne disastrous fruit. The planet is not waiting for them, pristine and unoccupied. New masters have turned it from a refuge into mankind's worst nightmare.

Now two civilizations are on a collision course, both testing the boundaries of what they will do to survive. As the fate of humanity hangs in the balance, who are the true heirs of this new Earth?]]> 608 Adrian Tchaikovsky 1447273281 Daniel 5 4.29 2015
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]]> 32109569 Alternate Cover Edition can be found here.

Bob Johansson has just sold his software company and is looking forward to a life of leisure. There are places to go, books to read, and movies to watch. So it's a little unfair when he gets himself killed crossing the street.

Bob wakes up a century later to find that corpsicles have been declared to be without rights, and he is now the property of the state. He has been uploaded into computer hardware and is slated to be the controlling AI in an interstellar probe looking for habitable planets. The stakes are high: no less than the first claim to entire worlds. If he declines the honor, he'll be switched off, and they'll try again with someone else. If he accepts, he becomes a prime target. There are at least three other countries trying to get their own probes launched first, and they play dirty.

The safest place for Bob is in space, heading away from Earth at top speed. Or so he thinks. Because the universe is full of nasties, and trespassers make them mad - very mad.]]> 383 Dennis E. Taylor Daniel 3 4.29 2016
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]]> 6899631 271 William Gibson Daniel 0 to-read 3.68 1984
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]]> 12851913
First published in 1972, Roadside PicnicĚýis still widely regarded asĚýone of the greatest science fiction novels, despite the fact that it has been out of print in the United States for almost thirty years. This authoritative new translation corrects many errors and omissions and has been supplemented with a foreword by Ursula K. Le Guin and a new afterword by Boris Strugatsky explaining the strange history of the novel’s publication in Russia.]]> 209 Arkady Strugatsky 1613743416 Daniel 4 3.98 1972
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]]> 48484 Two months since the stars fell...

Two months since sixty-five thousand alien objects clenched around the Earth like a luminous fist, screaming to the heavens as the atmosphere burned them to ash. Two months since that moment of brief, bright surveillance by agents unknown.

Two months of silence while a world holds its breath.

Now some half-derelict space probe, sparking fitfully past Neptune’s orbit, hears a whisper from the edge of the solar system: a faint signal sweeping the cosmos like a lighthouse beam. Whatever’s out there isn’t talking to us. It’s talking to some distant star, perhaps. Or perhaps to something closer, something en route.

So who do you send to force introductions on an intelligence with motives unknown, maybe unknowable? Who do you send to meet the alien when the alien doesn’t want to meet?

You send a linguist with multiple personalities, her brain surgically partitioned into separate, sentient processing cores. You send a biologist so radically interfaced with machinery that he sees X-rays and tastes ultrasound, so compromised by grafts and splices he no longer feels his own flesh. You send a pacifist warrior in the faint hope she won’t be needed, and a fainter hope she’ll do any good if she is needed. You send a monster to command them all, an extinct hominid predator once called “vampire,� recalled from the grave with the voodoo of recombinant genetics and the blood of sociopaths. And you send a synthesist � an informational topologist with half his mind gone � as an interface between here and there, a conduit through which the Dead Center might hope to understand the Bleeding Edge.

You send them all to the edge of interstellar space, praying you can trust such freaks and retrofits with the fate of a world. You fear they may be more alien than the thing they’ve been sent to find.

But you’d give anything for that to be true, if you only knew what was waiting for them…]]> 384 Peter Watts 0765312182 Daniel 3 4.01 2006
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]]> 77711 Alternate Cover Edition can be found here.

A Fire upon the Deep is the big, breakout book that fulfills the promise of Vinge's career to date: a gripping tale of galactic war told on a cosmic scale.

Thousands of years hence, many races inhabit a universe where a mind's potential is determined by its location in space, from superintelligent entities in the Transcend, to the limited minds of the Unthinking Depths, where only simple creatures and technology can function. Nobody knows what strange force partitioned space into these "regions of thought," but when the warring Straumli realm use an ancient Transcendent artifact as a weapon, they unwittingly unleash an awesome power that destroys thousands of worlds and enslaves all natural and artificial intelligence.

Fleeing the threat, a family of scientists, including two children, are taken captive by the Tines, an alien race with a harsh medieval culture, and used as pawns in a ruthless power struggle. A rescue mission, not entirely composed of humans, must rescue the children-and a secret that may save the rest of interstellar civilization.]]> 613 Vernor Vinge 0812515285 Daniel 3 4.14 1992
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]]> 636223 158 Anna Kavan 0720612683 Daniel 0 to-read 3.70 1967
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]]> 77566 500 Dan Simmons 0553283685 Daniel 2 4.26 1989
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]]> 13243831
The cult-classic by Stanislaw Lem that spawned the movie is now available for your Kindle! Until NOW the only English edition was a 1970 version, which was translated from French and which Lem himself described as a "poor translation." This wonderful new English translation (by Bill Johnston) of Lem's classic Solaris is a must-have for fans of Lem's classic novel.

Telling of humanity's encounter with an alien intelligence on the planet Solaris, the 1961 novel is a cult classic, exploring the ultimate futility of attempting to communicate with extra-terrestrial life.

When Kris Kelvin arrives at the planet Solaris to study the ocean that covers its surface, he finds a painful, hitherto unconscious memory embodied in the living physical likeness of a long-dead lover. Others examining the planet, Kelvin learns, are plagued with their own repressed and newly corporeal memories. The Solaris ocean may be a massive brain that creates these incarnate memories, though its purpose in doing so is unknown, forcing the scientists to shift the focus of their quest and wonder if they can truly understand the universe without first understanding what lies within their hearts.]]> 232 Stanisław Lem 1937624668 Daniel 5 3.85 1961
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]]> 60811826 Deep underground, forty women live imprisoned in a cage. Watched over by guards, the women have no memory of how they got there, no notion of time, and only a vague recollection of their lives before.


As the burn of electric light merges day into night and numberless years pass, a young girl—the fortieth prisoner—sits alone and outcast in the corner. Soon she will show herself to be the key to the others' escape and survival in the strange world that awaits them above ground.


Jacqueline Harpman was born in Etterbeek, Belgium, in 1929, and fled to Casablanca with her family during WWII. Informed by her background as a psychoanalyst and her youth in exile, I Who Have Never Known Men is a haunting, heartbreaking post-apocalyptic novel of female friendship and intimacy, and the lengths people will go to maintain their humanity in the face of devastation. Back in print for the first time since 1997, Harpman’s modern classic is an important addition to the growing canon of feminist speculative literature.]]> 184 Jacqueline Harpman 1945492600 Daniel 4 4.11 1995
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]]> 951749 156 Jack Vance 0671831526 Daniel 0 to-read 3.91 1950
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]]> 651807
Elegant and electric, We Who Are About To... brings us face to face with our basic assumptions about our will to live. While most of the stranded tourists decide to defy the odds and insist on colonizing the planet and creating life, the narrator decides to practice the art of dying. When she is threatened with compulsory reproduction, she defends herself with lethal force. Originally published in 1977, this is one of the most subtle, complex, and exciting science fiction novels ever written about the attempt to survive a hostile alien environment. It is characteristic of Russ's genius that such a readable novel is also one of her most intellectually intricate.]]> 144 Joanna Russ 0819567590 Daniel 0 to-read 3.58 1976
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]]> 123673
Confronted with a profound scientific riddle and ethical quandary, Father Ruiz-Sanchez soon finds himself torn between the teachings of his faith, the teachings of his science, and the inner promptings of his humanity. There is only one solution: He must accept an ancient and unforgivable heresy--and risk the futures of both worlds . . .]]> 256 James Blish 0345438353 Daniel 0 to-read 3.65 1958
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]]> 940954 188 D.G. Compton 0893701351 Daniel 0 to-read 3.52 1966
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]]> 126144 627 Franz Werfel 0553079158 Daniel 0 to-read 3.85 1946
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]]> 845485
Okay, they did resemble elephants, it can't be denied. That led many people to underestimate the Nildoror and their obviously more fearsome commensals, the Sulidoror.

But aliens should never be judged by human standards, as the Company learned to its cost when Holman's World, now once again known as Belzagor, was given back to the natives and the Company sent packing. Now Edmund Gunderson, once head of the Company's operation on this world, has come back across the galaxy to settle old scores with the Nildoror. If he can even get them to acknowledge his existence.

Cover Artist: Gene Szafran]]> 176 Robert Silverberg 0451044975 Daniel 0 to-read 3.86 1969
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]]> 845467
But then COMsac, theFederation's High Command, come to Mnemosyne, and suddenly the planet is more a military colony than a place for artists.

For Mack Taverner, the dilemma is either go along with the brutal military visitation or join the hopeless resitance and become a 'traitor'. His choice has awesome and extraordinary consequenses . . .]]> 173 Bob Shaw 0330029622 Daniel 0 to-read 3.60 1969
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]]> 968868 950 Gene Wolfe 1568658079 Daniel 0 to-read 4.23 1983
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]]> 845078
Contents:

· Hothouse · Brian W. Aldiss · nv F&SF Feb �61
· Nomansland · Brian W. Aldiss · nv F&SF Apr �61
· Undergrowth · Brian W. Aldiss · na F&SF Jul �61
· Timberline · Brian W. Aldiss · nv F&SF Sep �61
· Evergreen · Brian W. Aldiss · na F&SF Dec �61]]> 309 Brian W. Aldiss 0671559303 Daniel 0 to-read 3.66 1962
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]]> 6093929
The answer came one hot day in the Arizona desert when a horde of ants turned a thriving city into a ghost town. Then it was only a matter of time until the final confrontation. The terrible battle pitted the human race against a formidable insect civilization that far surpassed Man's paltry brain and weapons!

Novelization based on a story and screenplay by Mayo Simon.

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]]> 660071
In a controlled and mechanical world, the only reality is fear and killing boredom. The only escape from mind-blowing monotony is the Game, with predictable rules of stimulus and response. And if you pit yourself against the Games Master, you may lose your last vestige of sanity. Or your life!]]> 188 Barry N. Malzberg 0671801740 Daniel 0 to-read 3.53 1975
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]]> 882055 153 Barry N. Malzberg 0881845515 Daniel 0 to-read 3.65 1972
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]]> 805047 Alternate cover for this ISBN can be found here

What if the Allies had lost the Second World War ...? The Nazis have taken over New York - the Japanese control California. In a neutral buffer zone existing between the two states an underground author offers his own vision of reality, an alternative world that offers hope to the disenchanted.]]> 256 Philip K. Dick 0140285628 Daniel 5 3.67 1962
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]]> 58645
Gilles Deleuze (1925-1995) was Professor of Philosophy at the University of Paris VIII. He is a key figure in poststructuralism, and one of the most influential philosophers of the twentieth century.

FĂ©lix Guattari (1930-1992) was a psychoanalyst at the la Borde Clinic, as well as being a major social theorist and radical activist.

A Thousand Plateaus is part of Deleuze and Guattari's landmark philosophical project, Capitalism and Schizophrenia - a project that still sets the terms of contemporary philosophical debate. A Thousand Plateaus provides a compelling analysis of social phenomena and offers fresh alternatives for thinking about philosophy and culture. Its radical perspective provides a toolbox for �nomadic thought' and has had a galvanizing influence on today's anti-capitalist movement.

Translated by Brian Massumi.]]> 566 Gilles Deleuze 0826476945 Daniel 0 4.24 1980
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]]> 775947 Marcel Duchamp 0805799559 Daniel 0 5.00 1980
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]]> 1895096 778 Oliver M. Ashford 052138298X Daniel 0 0.0 1953
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]]> 29906 Socrates' defense (Apology)/ translated by Hugh Tredennick
Crito/ translated by Hugh Tredennick
Phaedo/ translated by Hugh Tredennick
Charmides/ translated by Benjamin Jowett
Laches/ translated by Benjamin Jowett
Lysis/ translated by J. Wright
Euthyphro/ translated by Lane Cooper
Menexenus/ translated by Benjamin Jowett
Lesser Hippias/ translated by Benjamin Jowett
Ion/ translated by Lane Cooper
Gorgias/ translated by W.D. Woodhead
Protagoras/ translated by W.K.C. Guthrie
Meno/ translated by W.K.C. Guthrie
Euthydemus/ translated by W.H.D. Rouse
Cratylus/ translated by Benjamin Jowett
Phaedrus/ translated by R. Hackforth
Symposium/ translated by Michael Joyce
Republic/ translated by Paul Shorey
Theaetetus/ translated by F.M. Cornford
Parmenides/ translated by F.M. Cornford
Sophist/ translated by F.M. Cornford
Statesman/ translated by J.B. Skemp
Philebus/ translated by R. Hackforth
Timaeus/ translated by Benjamin Jowett
Critias/ translated by A.E. Taylor
Laws/ translated by A.E. Taylor
Epinomis/ translated by A.E. Taylor
Greater Hippias/ translated by Benjamin Jowett
Letters/ translated by L.A. Post]]> 1743 Edith Hamilton 0691097186 Daniel 0 4.44 -380
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]]> 13211402 304 Jacques Khalip 080476137X Daniel 0 3.00 2011
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]]> 543082 Frankenstein, loved by many decades of readers and praised by such eminent literary critics as Harold Bloom, seems hardly to need a recommendation. If you haven't read it recently, though, you may not remember the sweeping force of the prose, the grotesque, surreal imagery, and the multilayered »ĺ´Ç±č±č±đ±ô˛µĂ¤˛Ô˛µ±đ°ů themes of Mary Shelley's masterpiece. As fantasy writer Jane Yolen writes of this (the reviewer's favorite) edition, "The strong black and whites of the main text [illustrations] are dark and brooding, with unremitting shadows and stark contrasts. But the central conversation with the monster--who owes nothing to the overused movie image Â… but is rather the novel's charnel-house composite--is where [Barry] Moser's illustrations show their greatest power ... The viewer can all but smell the powerful stench of the monster's breath as its words spill out across the page. Strong book-making for one of the world's strongest and most remarkable books." Includes an illuminating afterword by Joyce Carol Oates.]]> 364 Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley 1551113082 Daniel 0 4.14 1818
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]]> 913511 509 Steven Pinker 0713992565 Daniel 5 4.01 2002
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]]> 194211 512 Daniel C. Dennett 014006253X Daniel 5 4.04 1981
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]]> 863958 VALIS. And with that the fabric of reality was ripped open and laid bare so that anything seemed possible but nothing seemed quite right.
It was madness pure and simple. But what if it were true?
VALIS, the disorienting and eerily funny centrepiece of Dick's final trilogy (which includes The Divine Invasion and The Transmigration of Timothy Archer), is part science fiction, part theological detective story - in which God plays both missing person and the perpetrator of the ultimate crime.

Front cover illustration by Chris Moore

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This first broadly inclusive anthology of Stapledon's work offers a generous sampling of his fictional gems, including sections of his best known novels, Last and First Men, Odd Men, and Star Maker, and the complete text of two novellas, now back in print for the first time in fifty years, The Flames and Old Man in New World, as well as a selection of other writings, some previously unpublished, including essays, poems, and letters.

These writings reveal the prophetic vision and utopian convictions that run through Stapledon's work, and provide the broad context readers need to grasp the scope of his vision and to appreciate his great epic works, which are classics of science fiction.]]> 340 Robert Crossley 0815604300 Daniel 5 4.27 1996
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]]> 14184 A collection of largely unpublished or out-of-print essays, journals, speeches, and interviews on issues from the merging of physics and metaphysics to the potential influences and consequences of virtual reality by the Hugo Award-winning author of The Man in the High Castle. Non-fiction.]]> 384 Philip K. Dick 0679747877 Daniel 5 4.09 1995
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]]> 1754873 Fleeing, he glanced back across his shoulder and saw that the spider was gaining on him, its pulsing egg of a body perched on running legs - and egg whose yolk swam with killing poisons. He raced on, breathless, terror in his veins...

Scott Carey's life was good. He was a regular guy, normal wife, normal house, normal job. He was even normal-sized... until the fog passed over...

He was the size of a doll when the cellar door slammed - and locked - behind him....

He was the size of a match-stick when the Black Widow spider awakened to feed...]]> 217 Richard Matheson 0747402337 Daniel 5 4.00 1956
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]]> 230733 Straw Dogs is a work of philosophy, which sets out to challenge our most cherished assumptions about what it means to be human. From Plato to Christianity, from the Enlightenment to Nietzsche, the Western tradition has been based on arrogant and erroneous beliefs about human beings and their place in the world. Philosophies such as liberalism and Marxism think of humankind as a species whose destiny is to transcend natural limits and conquer the Earth. Even in the present day, despite Darwin's discoveries, nearly all schools of thought take as their starting point the belief that humans are radically different from other animals. John Gray argues that this humanist belief is an illusion. The aim of Straw Dogs is to explore how the world and human life look once humanism has been finally abandoned.
Straw Dogs explores philosophical issues such as the nature of the self, free will, morality, progress and the value of truth. Drawing his inspiration from art, poetry, and the frontiers of science as well as philosophy itself, John Gray presents a post-humanist view of the world and of human life. Straw Dogs is an exhilarating, sometimes disturbing book that leads the reader to question their deepest beliefs.]]> 246 John Gray 1862075964 Daniel 5 3.94 2002
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]]> 1392104 A compendium of art forms and ideas, pocketbooks offer a contemporary generalist vision of Scottish culture.]]> 208 David Shrigley 0748662839 Daniel 5 4.29 2000
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]]> 452776 256 Paul Broks 1843540347 Daniel 4 4.07 2003
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]]> 895474
Drawing on interviews and both published and unpublished sources, Carrère traces Dick's multiple marriages, paranoid fantasies and and dizzying encounters with the drug culture of California. As disturbing and engrossing as any novel by Philip K. Dick himself, Carrère's unconventional study interweaves life and art to reveal the maddening genius whose writing foresaw - from cloning to reality TV - a world that looks ever more like one of his inventions.]]> 317 Emmanuel Carrère 0747579717 Daniel 5 4.12 1993
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]]> 80865 240 Lawrence Weschler 193241634X Daniel 5 4.09 2006
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]]> 298972 In an age of globalization characterized by the dizzying technologies of the First World and the social disintegration of the Third, is the concept of utopia still meaningful?

Archaeologies of the Future, Jameson’s most substantial work since Postmodernism, Or, the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism, investigates the development of this form since Thomas More, and interrogates the functions of utopian thinking in a post-Communist age.

The relationship between utopia and science fiction is explored through the representations of otherness - alien life and
alien worlds - and a study of the works of Philip K. Dick, Ursula
K. LeGuin, William Gibson, Brian Aldiss, Kim Stanley Robinson, and more.

Jameson’s essential essays, including “The Desire Called Utopia,�
conclude with an examination of the opposing positions on utopia and an assessment of its political value today.]]> 448 Fredric Jameson 1844675386 Daniel 5 4.04 2005
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]]> 4585178 No - you didn't. And we can t tell you on the back of this book. For between these covers is collected a compendium of facts about questions which the majority of people would never dare think about that alone put into words.
THE DICTIONARY OF DISGUSTING FACTS is the definitive work from Acne to Zits, covering in its fetid pages such arcane lore as how fartleberries help catch the Great Train Robbers and what was found under Queen Anne's Chair in St. Paul's Cathedral.

Nose-wrinkling, eyebrow raising, stomach turning and (at its worst) bottom clenching THE DICTIONARY OF DISGUSTING FACTS will appeal to anyone who picks his nose in secret and that means you .
]]> 176 Alan Williams 0708828884 Daniel 5 5.00 1986
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]]> 1458524 3 novels in one. 543 Stanisław Lem 0140055398 Daniel 5 3.92 1981
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]]> 125318 Carl Zimmer 0099457997 Daniel 5 4.36 2000
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]]> 3109941

When Ballard, our narrator, smashes his car into another and watches a man die in front of him, he finds himself drawn with increasing intensity to the mangled impacts of car crashes. Robert Vaughan, a former TV scientist turned nightmare angel of the expressway, has gathered around him a collection of alienated crash victims and experiments with a series of auto-erotic atrocities, each more sinister than the last. But Vaughan craves the ultimate crash � a head-on collision of blood, semen, engine coolant and iconic celebrity.


First published in 1973 �Crash� remains one of the most shocking novels of the twentieth century and was made into an equally controversial film by David Cronenberg.


This edition is part of a new commemorative series of Ballard’s works, featuring introductions from a number of his admirers (including Robert Macfarlane, Martin Amis, James Lever and Ali Smith) and brand-new cover designs from the artist Stanley Donwood.]]> 208 J.G. Ballard Daniel 5 3.35 1973
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]]> 22599115 413 Richard Adams 0901720313 Daniel 5 4.40 1972
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]]> 2892092 Cover Artist: Daniel Mroz

Trurl and Klaupacius are constructor robots who try to out-invent each other. They travel to the far corners of the cosmos to take on freelance problem-solving jobs, with dire consequences for their employers. “The most completely successful of his books... here Lem comes closest to inventing a real universe� (Boston Globe). Illustrations by Daniel Mr—z. Translated by Michael Kandel.]]> 236 Stanisław Lem 0380272016 Daniel 5 4.00 1965
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]]> 10887550 Exegesis of Philip K. Dick is the magnificent and imaginative final work of an author who dedicated his life to questioning the nature of reality and perception, the malleability of space and time, and the relationship between the human and the divine. Edited and introduced by Pamela Jackson and Jonathan Lethem, this will be the definitive presentation of Dick’s brilliant, and epic, final work. InĚýThe Exegesis, Dick documents his eight-year attempt to fathom what he called "2-3-74," a postmodern visionary experience of the entire universe "transformed into information." In entries that sometimes ran to hundreds of pages, Dick tried to write his way into the heart of a cosmic mystery that tested his powers of imagination and invention to the limit, adding to, revising, and discarding theory after theory, mixing in dreams and visionary experiences as they occurred, and pulling it all together in three late novels known as the VALIS trilogy. In this abridgment, Jackson and Lethem serve as guides, taking the reader through the Exegesis and establishing connections with moments in Dick’s life and work.]]> 976 Philip K. Dick 0547549253 Daniel 5 4.17 2011
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]]> 21096797 128 Dougal Dixon 0713723149 Daniel 5 3.17 1990
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]]> 886662 George Johnson 0099452170 Daniel 5 3.83 2003
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]]> 1200879 In her elegant and trenchant study, Anne Billson argues that The Thing has never been given its due. For Billson, it's a landmark movie that brilliantly refines the conventions of classic horror and science fiction, combining them with humor, Lewis Carroll logic, strong characterizations and prescient insight. The idea of an alien species mutating and inhabiting humans resonates all too chillingly with the mad cow disease crisis and today's new and ever more powerful genetic technology.]]> 96 Anne Billson 0851705669 Daniel 5 3.88 1997
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]]> 1208939
Through intriguing, and at times humorous, historical analysis and case studies in contemporary culture, Schwartz investigates a stunning array of simulacra―counterfeits, decoys, mannequins, and portraits; ditto marks, genetic cloning, war games, and camouflage; instant replays, digital imaging, parrots, and photocopies; wax museums, apes, and art forgeries, not to mention the very notion of the Real McCoy.

Working through a range of theories on biological, mechanical, and electronic reproduction, Schwartz questions the modern esteem for authenticity and uniqueness. The Culture of the Copy shows how the ethical dilemmas central to so many fields of endeavor have become inseparable from our pursuit of copies―of the natural world, of our own creations, indeed of our very selves.

This updated edition takes notice of recent shifts in thought with regard to such issues as biological cloning, conjoined twins, copyright, digital reproduction, and multiple personality disorder. At once abbreviated and refined, it will be of interest to anyone concerned with proglems of authenticity, identity, and originality.]]> 568 Hillel Schwartz 0942299353 Daniel 5 4.50 1996
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]]> 6537039 352 Genpei Akasegawa 1885030460 Daniel 5 4.00 2009
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]]> 95625 Blade Runner and its steadily improving fortunes after its indifferent reception in 1982. The film is situated in terms of the debates about postmodernism which have informed the large body of criticism devoted to it.]]> 96 Scott Bukatman 0851706231 Daniel 5 3.83 1997
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]]> 2340168 172 Neil Badmington 0333765389 Daniel 5 3.83 2000
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]]> 3394373 Here is the novel that will be forever considered Frank Herbert's triumph of the imagination.

Set on the desert planet Arrakis, Dune is the story of the boy Paul Atreides, heir to a noble family tasked with ruling an inhospitable world where the only thing of value is the “spice� melange, a drug capable of extending life and enhancing consciousness. Coveted across the known universe, melange is a prize worth killing for....

When House Atreides is betrayed, the destruction of Paul’s family will set the boy on a journey toward a destiny greater than he could ever have imagined. And as he evolves into the mysterious man known as Muad’Dib, he will bring to fruition humankind’s most ancient and unattainable dream.

A stunning blend of adventure and mysticism, environmentalism and politics, Dune won the first Nebula Award, shared the Hugo Award, and formed the basis of what is undoubtedly the grandest epic in science fiction.]]> 510 Frank Herbert 0450035697 Daniel 5 4.32 1965
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]]> 23508393 255 Richard Grusin 0816694672 Daniel 4 3.63 2015
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]]> 4617457 268 Reza Negarestani 0980544009 Daniel 5 3.86 2008
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]]> 22397551
The term was coined to designate a certain nihilistic alignment of theory with the excess and abandon of capitalist culture, and the associated performative aesthetic of texts that seek to become immanent to the very process of alienation. Developing at the dawn of contemporary neoliberal consensus, the uneasy status of this impulse, between subversion and acquiescence, between theoretical purchase and aesthetic enjoyment, constitutes the core problematic of accelerationism.

Since the 2013 publication of Williams's and Srnicek's #Accelerate: Manifesto for an Accelerationist Politics, the term has been adopted to name a set of new theoretical enterprises that aim to conceptualise non-capitalist futures outside of traditional marxist critiques and regressive, decelerative or restorative solutions.

#ACCELERATE presents a genealogy of accelerationism, tracking the impulse through 90s UK darkside cyberculture and the theory-fictions of Nick Land, Sadie Plant, Iain Grant, and anonymous units like CCRU and SWITCH, across the cultural underground of the 80s (rave, acid house, Terminator and Bladerunner) and back to its sources in delirious post-68 ferment, in texts whose searing nihilistic jouissance would later be disavowed by their authors and the marxist and academic establishment alike.

On either side of this largely unexplored central sequence, the book includes texts by Marx that call attention to his own 'Prometheanism' and key works from recent years document the recent extraordinary emergence of new accelerationisms steeled against the onslaughts of neoliberal capitalist realism, and retooled for the twenty-first century.

At the forefront of the energetic contemporary debate around this disputed, problematic term, #ACCELERATE activates a historical conversation about futurality, technology, politics, enjoyment and Kapital. This is a legacy shot through with contradictions, yet urgently galvanized today by the poverty of 'reasonable' contemporary political alternatives.]]> 536 Robin Mackay 0957529554 Daniel 4 3.95 2014
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]]> 2243495 192 Sean Cubitt 0761959009 Daniel 5 4.17 1998
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]]> 12665151
Through text and photography, They Became What They Beheld brings into vivid focus the changed sense of self and world that now marks modern life—most expressively in the young. Why long hair? Why the turn to drugs and the inner trip? But the changes do not only affect the young, they are part of all of us. Why the new, intense concern with fashion? Why the rapid expansion of the old limits of what was "proper"? Why that "gap" that divides the generations?

"'Daddy, are we live or on tape?'"

The book takes the form of a notebook of images and commentaries juxtaposed in dramatic contrasts and continuities. Its rhythms are more concentrated and more violent than those experienced in conventional work. They belong to the world of icon, graffiti, cartoon—our world.]]> 160 0856280127 Daniel 0 phd, research, reference 5.00 1970
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]]> 17497614 In this fascinating and important book, Catherine Waldby explores how advances in medical technologies have changed the way we view and study the human body, and places the VHP within the history of technologies such as the X-ray and CT-scan, which allow us to view the human interior.
Bringing together medical conceptions of the human body with theories of visual culture from Foucault to Donna Haraway, Waldby links the VHP to a range of other biomedical projects, such as the Human Genome Project and cloning, which approach living bodies as data sources. She argues that the VHP is an example of the increasingly blurred distinction between living' and 'dead' human bodies, as the bodies it uses are digitally preserved as a resource for living bodies, and considers how computer-based biotechnologies affect both medical and non-medical meanings of the body's life and death, its location and its limits.]]> 208 Catherine Waldby 1134688008 Daniel 0 0.0 2000
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]]> 18891928
also rich in philosophical and logical insight. An introduction by leading Turing expert Jack Copeland provides the background and guides the reader through the selection.



About Alan Turing



Alan Turing FRS OBE, (1912-1954) studied mathematics at King's College, Cambridge. He was elected a Fellow of King's in March 1935, at the age of only 22. In the same year he invented the abstract computing machines - now known simply as Turing machines - on which all subsequent stored-program digital computers are modelled.

During 1936-1938 Turing continued his studies, now at Princeton University. He completed a PhD in mathematical logic, analysing the notion of 'intuition' in mathematics and introducing the idea of oracular computation, now fundamental in mathematical recursion theory. An 'oracle' is an abstract device able to solve mathematical problems too difficult for the universal Turing machine.

In the summer of 1938 Turing returned to his Fellowship at King's. When WWII started in 1939 he joined the wartime headquarters of the Government Code and Cypher School (GC&CS) at Bletchley Park, Buckinghamshire. Building on earlier work by Polish cryptanalysts, Turing contributed crucially to the design of electro-mechanical machines ('bombes') used to decipher Enigma, the code by means of which the German armed forces sought to protect their radio communications. Turing's work on the

version of Enigma used by the German navy was vital to the battle for supremacy in the North Atlantic. He also contributed to the attack on the cyphers known as 'Fish'. Based on binary teleprinter code, Fish was used during the latter part of the war in preference to morse-based Enigma for the encryption of

high-level signals, for example messages from Hitler and other members of the German High Command. It is estimated that the work of GC&CS shortened the war in Europe by at least two years. Turing received the Order of the British Empire for the part he played.

In 1945, the war over, Turing was recruited to the National Physical Laboratory (NPL) in London, his brief to design and develop an electronic computer - a concrete form of the universal Turing machine. Turing's report setting out his design for the Automatic Computing Engine (ACE) was the first relatively complete specification of an electronic stored-program general-purpose digital computer. Delays beyond Turing's control resulted in NPL's losing the race to build the world's first working

electronic stored-program digital computer - an honour that went to the Royal Society Computing Machine Laboratory at Manchester University, in June 1948. Discouraged by the delays at NPL, Turing took up the Deputy Directorship of the Royal Society Computing Machine Laboratory in that year.

Turing was a founding father of modern cognitive science and a leading early exponent of the hypothesis that the human brain is in large part a digital computing machine, theorising that the cortex at birth is an 'unorganised machine' which through 'training' becomes organised 'into a universal machine or something like it'. He also pioneered Artificial Intelligence.

Turing spent the rest of his short career at Manchester University, being appointed to a specially created Readership in the Theory of Computing in May 1953. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of London in March 1951 (a high honour).]]> 621 B. Jack Copeland 0191606863 Daniel 0 3.00 2004
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]]> 765227 67 Roland Barthes 0374521603 Daniel 0 4.08 1973
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]]> 133230 366 Rosalind E. Krauss 0262611058 Daniel 0 4.06 1993
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]]> 150387 465 Charles Bernstein 0810118459 Daniel 0 4.38 1986
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]]> 1888712
Ěý

The Writing of the Disaster reflects upon efforts to abide in disaster’s infinite threat. First published in French in 1980, it takes up the most serious tasks of to describe, explain, and redeem when possible, and to admit what is not possible. Neither offers consolation.

Ěý

Maurice Blanchot has been praised on both sides of the Atlantic for his fiction and criticism. The philosopher Emmanuel Levinas once remarked that Blanchot's writing is a "language of pure transcendence, without correlative." Literary theorist and critic Geoffrey Hartman remarked that Blanchot's influence on contemporary writers "cannot be overestimated."]]> 151 Maurice Blanchot 0803211864 Daniel 0 0.0 1980
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]]> 294657 The Phantom Empire is a brilliant, daring, and utterly original book that analyzes (even as it exemplifies) the effect that the image saturation of a hundred years of moving pictures have had on human culture and consciousness.

In his intense and mysterious evocation of (seemingly) every kind of movie ever made, Geoffrey O'Brien erases the distinction between spectator and commentator and virtually reinvents film writing in our time.]]> 282 Geoffrey O'Brien 0393312968 Daniel 0 4.26 1995
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]]> 648195
Hans Moravec convincingly argues that we are approaching a watershed in the history of life―a time when the boundaries between biological and postbiological intelligence will begin to dissolve. Within forty years, Moravec believes, we will achieve human equivalence in our machines, not only in their capacity to reason but also in their ability to perceive, interact with, and change their complex environment. The critical factor is mobility. A computer rooted to one place is doomed to static iterations, whereas a machine on the prowl, like a mobile organism, must evolve a richer fund of knowledge about an ever-changing world upon which to base its actions.

In order to achieve anything near human equivalence, robots will need, at the least, the capacity to perform ten trillion calculations per second. Given the trillion-fold increase in computational power since the end of the nineteenth century, and the promise of exotic technologies far surpassing the now-familiar lasers and even superconductors, Moravec concludes that our hardware will have no trouble meeting this forty-year timetable.

But human equivalence is just the beginning, not an upper bound. Once the tireless thinking capacity of robots is directed to the problem of their own improvement and reproduction, even the sky will not limit their voracious exploration of the universe. In the concluding chapters Moravec challenges us to imagine with him the possibilities and pitfalls of such a scenario. Rather than warning us of takeover by robots, the author invites us, as we approach the end of this millennium, to speculate about a plausible, wonderful postbiological future and the ways in which our minds might participate in its unfolding.]]> 224 Hans Moravec 0674576187 Daniel 0 4.05 1990
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]]> 763649 192 Sande Cohen 1845200896 Daniel 0 3.75 2005
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]]> 1536366 Jean-Joseph Goux 0801420423 Daniel 0 4.00 1973
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]]> 7028848 A masterpiece ahead of its time, a prescient rendering of a dark future, and the inspiration for the blockbuster film Blade Runner

By 2021, the World War has killed millions, driving entire species into extinction and sending mankind off-planet. Those who remain covet any living creature, and for people who can’t afford one, companies built incredibly realistic simulacra: horses, birds, cats, sheep. They’ve even built humans. Immigrants to Mars receive androids so sophisticated they are indistinguishable from true men or women. Fearful of the havoc these artificial humans can wreak, the government bans them from Earth. Driven into hiding, unauthorized androids live among human beings, undetected. Rick Deckard, an officially sanctioned bounty hunter, is commissioned to find rogue androids and “retire� them. But when cornered, androids fight back—with lethal force.]]> 225 Philip K. Dick 0345508556 Daniel 0 3.86 1968
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]]> 862394 Book by Thomas, Ronald R. Ronald R. Thomas 0801496942 Daniel 0 3.75 1990
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]]> 1434855 Paul John Eakin 0691068208 Daniel 0 4.00 1992
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]]> 10672758 308 Peter Robinson 0521098998 Daniel 0 0.0
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]]> 677144 220 Kelly Hurley 0521607116 Daniel 0 4.25 1996
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There are essays on the Neoclassical architect Sir John Soane, Sigmund Freud and Kurt Schwitters, one of the masters of collage. Others examine imperialist encounters with remote cultures � the consquitadors in America in the sixteenth century, and the British in the Pacific in the eighteenth � and the more recent collectors of popular culture, be they of Swatch watches, Elvis Presley memorabilia or of packaging and advertising.

With essays by Jean Baudrillard, Thomas DaCosta Kaufmann, Nicholas Thomas, Mieke Bal, John Forrester, John Windsor, Naomi Schor, Susan Stewart, Anthony Alan Shelton, John Elsner, Roger Cardinal and an interview with Robert Opie.]]> 312 Roger Cardinal 0948462515 Daniel 0 3.81 1993
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The Rabelais book, when translated, caused a stir among folklorists, anthropologists, and social historians, with its theory of carnival and of ritual inversions of hierarchy. The book on Dostoevsky aroused intense interest among literary theorists in the concept of the “polyphonic novel� and the many authorial voices to be heard therein. Similarly, as Bakhtin’s other writings have appeared in translation, he has been hailed in disparate circles for his contributions to linguistic, psychoanalytic, and social theory. But among all those who have studied various aspects of Bakhtin’s work, few have been in a position, or even attempted, to assess his total achievement.

It is the great merit of Katerina Clark and Michael Holquist’s book that they have endeavored, insofar as possible, to give us the complete life and the complete works of this complex and multifaceted figure. The authors have had unique access to the Bakhtin archive in Moscow, have traced further material in other cities in Europe, and have interviewed many persons who knew Bakhtin. The phases of his life are placed in their physical and intellectual milieux, and accounts are given of the figures who made up the various “Bakhtin circles� over the years. All of the works, published and unpublished, are discussed, in the context of European philosophical movements and the currents of thought of the time. Underlying and informing Bakhtin’s particular theories in various fields was, in the authors� view, his lifelong meditation on the relation between self and other. The philosophy he evolved has come to be called dialogism, since it conceives of the world in terms of communication and exchange. It is a world view with wide-ranging implications for the human sciences.]]> 398 Katerina Clark 0674574176 Daniel 0 3.84 1984
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]]> 2868573 866 Nigel Wood 0582784549 Daniel 0 3.98 1988
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]]> 975187 The Woman in the Dunes is one of the premier Japanese novels in the twentieth century, and this Penguin Classics edition contains a new introduction by David Mitchell, author of Cloud Atlas.

Niki Jumpei, an amateur entomologist, searches the scorching desert for beetles. As night falls he is forced to seek shelter in an eerie village, half-buried by huge sand dunes. He awakes to the terrifying realisation that the villagers have imprisoned him with a young woman at the bottom of a vast sand pit. Tricked into slavery and threatened with starvation if he does not work, Jumpei's only chance is to shovel the ever-encroaching sand - or face an agonising death. Among the greatest Japanese novels of the twentieth century, The Woman in the Dunes combines the essence of myth, suspense, and the existential novel.

Kobo Abe (1924-93) was born in Tokyo, grew up in Manchuria, and returned to Japan in his early twenties. During his life Abe was considered his country's foremost living novelist. His novels have earned many literary awards and prizes, and have all been bestsellers in Japan. They include The Woman in the Dunes, The Ark Sakura, The Face of Another, The Box Man, and The Ruined Map.

If you liked The Woman in the Dunes, you might enjoy Albert Camus' The Plague, also available in Penguin Classics.

'A haunting Kafkaesque nightmare'
Time]]> 240 KĹŤbĹŤ Abe Daniel 0 3.85 1962
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]]> 9862885 182 Howard Caygill 0203992857 Daniel 0 0.0 1997
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]]> 22616 A tour de force of the materialist semiotics of the early Baudrillard.

The System of Objects is a tour de force—a theoretical letter-in-a-bottle tossed into the ocean in 1968, which brilliantly communicates to us all the live ideas of the day.

Pressing Freudian and Saussurean categories into the service of a basically Marxist perspective, The System of Objects offers a cultural critique of the commodity in consumer society. Baudrillard classifies the everyday objects of the “new technical order� as functional, nonfunctional and metafunctional. He contrasts “modern� and “traditional� functional objects, subjecting home furnishing and interior design to a celebrated semiological analysis. His treatment of nonfunctional or “marginal� objects focuses on antiques and the psychology of collecting, while the metafunctional category extends to the useless, the aberrant and even the “schizofunctional.� Finally, Baudrillard deals at length with the implications of credit and advertising for the commodification of everyday life.

The System of Objects is a tour de force of the materialist semiotics of the early Baudrillard, who emerges in retrospect as something of a lightning rod for all the live ideas of the day: Bataille's political economy of “expenditure� and Mauss's theory of the gift; Reisman's lonely crowd and the “technological society� of Jacques Ellul; the structuralism of Roland Barthes in The System of Fashion; Henri Lefebvre's work on the social construction of space; and last, but not least, Guy Debord's situationist critique of the spectacle.]]> 224 Jean Baudrillard 1844670538 Daniel 0 4.06 1968
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This collection includes some of Dick's earliest short and medium-length fiction, including "We Can Remember it for You Wholesale" (the story that inspired the motion picture Total Recall), "Second Variety" (which inspired the motion picture Screamers), "Paychecks", "The Minority Report", and 21 more.

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"Fair Game" (1959)
"The Hanging Stranger" (1953)
""The Eyes Have It"" (1953)
"The Golden Man" (1954)
"The Turning Wheel" (1954)
"The Last of the Masters" (1954)
"The Father-Thing" (1954)
"Strange Eden" (1954)
"Tony and the Beetles" (1954)
"Null-O" (1958)
"To Serve the Master" (1956)
"Exhibit Piece" (1954)
"The Crawlers" (1954)
"Sales Pitch" (1954)
"Shell Game" (1954)
"Upon the Dull Earth" (1954)
"Foster, You're Dead!" (1955)
"Pay for the Printer" (1956)
"War Veteran" (1955)
"The Chromium Fence" (1955)
"We Can Remember It for You Wholesale" (1966)
"The Minority Report" (1956)
"Paycheck" (1953)
"Second Variety" (1953)]]> 422 Philip K. Dick 0806518561 Daniel 0 4.28 1997
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