Someone who failed their 2023 Reading Challenge and looking forward to making up for that in 2024.
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The King in Yellow is a book of short stories by the American writer Robert W. Chambers, first published by …
The cult-classic by Stanislaw Lem that spawned the movie is now available for your Kindle! …
A longer and meandering science fiction classic. Full of big ideas, and a clear predecessor to modern masters Jeff VanderMeer and Ted Chiang.
NOT a great book if you're looking to get through a large number of books in a year, but a GREAT book if you want to sit with it and slowly enjoy it like a fine whisky.
Stanisław Lem: Solaris (Polish language, 1995, Interart)
The cult-classic by Stanislaw Lem that spawned the movie is now available for your Kindle! Until now the only English …
Since its small screen debut in 1982, Macross has remained one of most influential mecha anime of all time. Longtime …
Since its small screen debut in 1982, Macross has remained one of most influential mecha anime of all time. Longtime …
Since its small screen debut in 1982, Macross has remained one of most influential mecha anime of all time. Longtime …
Since its small screen debut in 1982, Macross has remained one of most influential mecha anime of all time. Longtime …
The science fiction masterpiece continues in the "major event,"( Los Angeles Times) Children of Dune. With millions of copies sold …
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Sequel to the wildly popular Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance. Pirsig expands on …
It is a book that I will remember for a long time.
I have read another book by Robert M. Pirsig when I was about 19 years old by chance - it was left in the book exchange in the hostel I was working at - I had no idea what Zen was and some idea about what a motorcycle was. The understanding on how motorcycle works is not progressed till this time.
Lila: an inquiry into morals is continuation though set and patterns that was captivating and refreshing while I was reading it and will stay with me for some time for sure.
The science fiction masterpiece continues in the "major event,"( Los Angeles Times) Children of Dune. With millions of copies sold …
Interesting sequel to "Dune". It's much more political than war drama, picking up 12 years after its predecessor.
I enjoyed the contrast to the adventure and fighting in the last one (It certainly subverts expectations!), and I'm interested in seeing where this story heads next.
The stories in this collection were a bit hit-or-miss. Other than the names used within, (judging by this collection) Soviet science fiction seemed to have a lot in common with Western science fiction from similar eras. I wouldn't have been surprised to see any of these stories pop-up in a similar collection rescued from the local used bookstore.
Some of the tales failed to land with me, but I think that's more a function of eras than region of origin. Some of the tales seemed to be a bit slow and plodding, but not more so than Western stories of that era.
That said, the last tale about cryo-hibernation was worth the price of admittance alone. I won't spoil more than that.
