I like existential, cosmic, surreal, or body horror, as well as limited fantasy, speculative fiction, non-fiction etc etc.
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A tale set at the end of the twenty-first century finds the planet's divided hominid population subjected to the forces …
NOBODY DOES IT BETTER ... Dr Mo O'Brien is an intelligence agent at the top …
Nice to spend some time with Mo. Its alright, pulpy and paced.
Hollis Henry worked for global marketing magnate Hubertus Bigend once before. She never meant to repeat the experience, but she's …
The core ideas are interesting, the book itself didn't grab me.
The core ideas are interesting, the book itself didn't grab me.
Well-paced spy/cosmic horror mashup, kind of fun to get a snapshot of what Stross was thinking about in 1999.
Science Fiction set in the future on the planet mars. People are divided into colors, …
Pretty hard to get over the fridging of the lovely, brave young wife, and it colours later choices in an otherwise interesting story about class infiltration and betrayal.
Pretty tasty as a collection, up there or better than The Beautiful Thing that Awaits Us All, which has some bum notes.
Brings back several characters from an earlier novel, The Secret of Chimneys, in a …
Content warning Mystery resolution
I'm interested in the note this story ends on, with a Scotland-yard sanctioned secret society/spy network. Bit of an interesting mix with the whole upper crust monstrosity of the characters.
The Lottery and Other Stories is a 1949 short story collection by American author Shirley …
The Intoxicated is both a timely rendition of our current crisis and an astute study of the dismissive response to truth-telling.
Just read The Trains, a fascinating, and fascinatingly abrupt, story about two women rucking through a "Quiet Valley" cut through by a train line.
Just read The Trains, a fascinating, and fascinatingly abrupt, story about two women rucking through a "Quiet Valley" cut through by a train line.
The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time is a posthumous collection of previously published and unpublished material …
One of the most talked-about scholarly works of the past fifty years, Judith Butler’s Gender Trouble is as celebrated as …
The Second Sex (French: Le Deuxième Sexe) is a 1949 book by the French existentialist philosopher Simone de Beauvoir, …
