Read for the TBR Lite 2009 Reading Challenge. Cloud Atlas has a little bit of story for everyone. There’s the 19th century clerk on a ship in the South Pacific, an early 20th century aspiring composer trying to worm his way into the home and life a musical genius, a reporter from the 1970s investigating […]
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Read for the It’s the End of the World Reading Challenge II. This book focuses on the Abbey of Saint Leobowitz, founded after a nuclear war (called the Flame Deluge) destroys much of the world, in order to save some remnants of civilization. The documents they’re guarding come to be called the Memorabilia, and it’s
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Read for the It’s the End of the World Reading Challenge. Isherwood Williams is in the mountains when the plague that wipes out most of humanity happens. He travels back to his home in San Francisco through an oddly silent land, having to piece together what happened from what little information was left before most
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Read for the It’s the End of the World Reading Challenge. The title says everything you need to know about the subject matter of this short story collection. Every story is set after the world has ended. If that seems like a fairly limiting subject, you’re in for an interesting survey of how many different
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Neal Stephenson has a fairly insane imagination. Snow Crash is the story of a guy named Hiro and a girl named Y.T., both of who live in a near future L.A. where society has broken up into innumerable franchises where most people live out their lives in predictable sameness. However, for those who are able
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In a fit of extreme brain-deadedness (the only coworker that shares my job full time has been on vacation for the past two weeks, and by the end of it, I was getting a little behind, and a little tired…), I managed to watch the entire first series of Doctor Who in two nights. (Well,
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Read for the TBR 2008 Reading Challenge. So, as far as I can tell, a colony ship landed on a planet. Somehow, the crew got some sort of control over the passengers. They managed to gain power, and taking on the aspects of the Hindu pantheon, ruled over the planet and made sure that the
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I’ve been both looking forward to and dreading this book. The dread stems from the fact that Marion Zimmer Bradley has actually been dead for some time now, and I’m not overly fond of the author that her literary trust assigned to continue with the Darkover books. I got into Darkover shortly after Bradley died,
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I don’t recommend The Road for bed-time reading. In fact, it took me about three times as long as it normally does to read a book because I had to stop reading it in my normal before bed reading slot. This book is set in nuclear winter, and is the story of a father and
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Wow. This is a great book. It’s set in the not too distant future, and has some interesting ideas about how society may respond in the face of our increasing technological advances. It’s an incredibly layered book, and I’m still trying to decide exactly how I feel about it. The main character in this book
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