The Cyberiad – 3/5 Stars This is a collection of short stories by the Polish science fiction writer Stanislaw Lem. Although it’s a collection, it’s more a series of linked stories almost in the form of a novel. If you’ve read a Stanislaw Lem novel, and I think this is my third, you’ll recognize a cognizant effort to question reality, but also the conventions of science fiction in general. Some of his novels like Solaris are highly metaphysical in nature, while authors, like Pirx the Pilot are […]
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The Cyberiad by Stanislaw Lem
Guys and Dolls by Damon Runyan
Wind/Pinball 1973 by Haruki Murakami
The Case of the Gilded Fly by Edmund Crispin
My Search for Warren Harding by Robert Plunket
Faceless Killers by Henning Mankell
The Blood of Elves by Andrej Sapkowski
A Morbid Taste for Bones by Ellis Peters
Flatland by Edwin Abbott
The Testament of Mary by Colm Toibin
The Friends of Eddie Coyle by George Higgins
Laughing in the Hills by Bill Barich
Bright Lights Big City by Jay McInerney
The Prince by Niccola Machiavelli
Dear America by Jose Antonio Vargas
The Three Paradoxes by Paul Hornschmeier
How to Pronounce Knife by Souvankham Thammavongsa
