I like existential, cosmic, surreal, or body horror, as well as limited fantasy, speculative fiction, non-fiction etc etc.
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The most acclaimed writer in comics history, Alan Moore, joins his late mentor Steve Moore …
Boy howdy it’s been a long time coming. Hope all the authors and artists are doing well.
Excession is a 1996 science fiction novel by Scottish writer Iain M. Banks. It is the fifth in the Culture …
"As a heartless killing machine, I was a complete failure."
In a corporate-dominated spacefaring future, …
Quick but fun
"Stories from a lost American classic "in the same arena as Alice Munro" (Lydia Davis) …
Years later, images from these stories have stayed with me: a terrified girl helping her grandfather pull out all his teeth, ER doctors and their kind voices, the little injured jockey who speaks no English, bad smells that smell good.
David Peace's acclaimed Red Riding Quartet continues with this exhilarating follow-up to Nineteen Seventy-Four. It's …
A lukewarm James Ellroy imitation wherein we spend 300 pages with two deeply unpleasant men as they supposedly try to solve murders and assaults but instead commit their own litany of shitty acts. And then they have the audacity to be upset that other men are doing nasty things to these same women.
Was a fan of the miniseries but honestly maybe I ought not to have been.
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Lena
Accidentally becoming an AWS vm image.
If you are reading this
What if a civilisation sent us a message and we mostly missed it?
The frame by frame
When corporate espionage meets self-driving cars.
The Difference
I’d fail the Turing test
gorge
Whoops we woke up the hungry nanofungus planet
cripes does anyone remember
Classic creepy pasta idea based on the Google graveyard of social medias
Driver
Sequel to Lena, about the need to manage all these worker brains.
I don’t know, Timmy
That creepy moment you realise you aren’t the simulating universe but the simulated.
A powerful culture
They built a pipeline through our planet. Humans, eh?
Valuable humans in transit
In which the grey hoo actually, maybe, saves most of humanity.
Nobody has a “normal” family, but Vesper Wright’s is truly...something else. Vesper left home at …
Recommended by a friend
When Louise finds out her parents have died, she dreads going home. She doesn’t want …
Good clean fun. The main characters are mildly insufferable and there are a few beats where they make egregiously silly choices that happens to suit the plot, but the slow escalation of horror mixed with plausible family conflict is a solid mix.
When Louise finds out her parents have died, she dreads going home. She doesn’t want …
A little plot-driven, that forces the characters to make some inexplicable choices, but overall a fun little horror/family drama.
When Louise finds out her parents have died, she dreads going home. She doesn’t want to leave her daughter with …
It's a maths book that's also a Steiner book. I want to own a physical copy
I borrowed this from the Internet Archive to look up the Tsalal story.. it was just fine. I haven't read any of the others.
Set against the backdrop of the collapsing Ottoman Empire, Birds Without Wings traces the fortunes of one small community in …
