Imagine a world where there are no books, where nobody reads, where nobody thinks for themselves. Where the world is run by machines, by robots. Where the human race is, quite literally, stoned, and often self immolates for no discernable reason. Welcome to a dystopian 25th century America. Reading has been outlawed, books have been destroyed, the public at large has been drugged, and the government is run by an intelligent, never-aging robot whose only desire is to be able to end his life. Mockingbird […]
Multiple personality disorder as a superpower.
Stephen Leeds is a truly unique individual. There are forty-seven people (and counting) living in his house, each of whom specialize in different things, like botany, biology, security, psychology, handwriting analysis, etc. These people have personalities and talents and fears and all come from different cultures and religious backgrounds. And all of them are hallucinations. Stephen doesn’t really have multiple personality disorder, because he is completely aware of and actively participates in the maintaining of his aspects. He uses them as a sort of extension […]
Sisters Doin’ It For Themselves
Into the Forest was a late holiday gift, and I blazed through it in a day. It’s a very quick read and author Jean Hegland’s style is equal parts Margaret Atwood and Barbara Kingsolver, though she’s not quite as deft in her prose as either of those writers. There are also echoes of the back-to-the-land resourcefulness Katniss Everdeen displays in The Hunger Games, and the book is easily as addictive as the first book in that series. The book unfolds its exposition of a near-future […]
MacGyver goes to space
Goodreads summary: “Six days ago, astronaut Mark Watney became one of the first men to walk on the surface of Mars. Now, he’s sure he’ll be the first man to die there. It started with the dust storm that holed his suit and nearly killed him, and that forced his crew to leave him behind, sure he was already dead. Now he’s stranded millions of miles from the nearest human being, with no way to even signal Earth that he’s alive–and even if he could […]
. . . And I feel fine. . . .
I found this book through a book I read last Cannonball – Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters, which I didn’t really like. BUT – at the end were a few bonus chapters of another book written by the same author. I was totally sucked in, and bought the whole thing. Hank Palace always wanted to be a police detective, and he recently achieved his goal, which is fantastic. That’s really the only good thing, though. Because a huge asteroid is heading this way. It is […]
My only foray into science-fiction this year
Please find my last review of the year here.
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