Fenwick McKelvey rated The Road: 4 stars
The Road by Cormac McCarthy
A searing, postapocalyptic novel destined to become Cormac McCarthy’s masterpiece.
A father and his son walk alone through burned …
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Fenwick McKelvey rated Fear and loathing in Las Vegas: 5 stars
Fear and loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson
A journalist and his lawyer head to las Vegas in the hopes of finding The American Dream. Instead they trip …
Fenwick McKelvey rated The Fifth Season: 5 stars
The Fifth Season by N.K. Jemisin (The Broken Earth, #1)
This is the way the world ends. Again.
Three terrible things happen in a single day. Essun, a woman …
Fenwick McKelvey rated Die Neuromancer-Trilogie: 5 stars
Fenwick McKelvey rated Snow Crash: 3 stars
Neal Stephenson: Snow Crash (Paperback, 2022, Penguin Books, Limited)
Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson
After the Internet, what came next?
Enter the Metaverse - cyberspace home to avatars and software daemons, where anything …
Fenwick McKelvey rated The Restaurant at the End of the Universe: 3 stars
The Restaurant at the End of the Universe by Douglas Adams (Hitchhikers Guide #2)
When all questions of space, time, matter and the nature of being have been resolved, only one question remains — …
Fenwick McKelvey rated The Peripheral: 5 stars
The Peripheral by William Gibson
The Peripheral is a 2014 science fiction mystery-thriller novel by William Gibson, set in near- and post-apocalyptic versions of the …
Fenwick McKelvey rated A Study in Scarlet: 4 stars
A Study in Scarlet by Arthur Conan Doyle (A Study in Scarlet, #1)
A Study in Scarlet is an 1887 detective novel by British writer Arthur Conan Doyle. The story marks the first …
Fenwick McKelvey rated Shadow of the Torturer: 2 stars
Gene Wolfe: Shadow of the Torturer (Paperback, 1984, Pocket)
Shadow of the Torturer by Gene Wolfe (Book of the New Sun (1))
The Shadow of the Torturer is the first volume in the four-volume series, The Book of the New Sun. It …
Fenwick McKelvey rated Borne: 4 stars
Borne by Jeff VanderMeer
In a ruined, nameless city of the future, a woman named Rachel, who makes her living as a scavenger, finds …
Fenwick McKelvey rated The Frood: 5 stars
The Frood by Douglas Adams(duplicate), Jem Roberts
As a wise ape once observed, space is big - vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly so. However, if you look too closely …
Fenwick McKelvey rated The Nickel Boys: 5 stars
The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead
Author of The Underground Railroad, Colson Whitehead brilliantly dramatizes another strand of American history through the story of two boys …
Fenwick McKelvey rated A Clockwork Orange: 4 stars
A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess, Anthony Burgess
A Clockwork Orange is a dystopian satirical black comedy novel by English writer Anthony Burgess, published in 1962. It is …
Fenwick McKelvey rated The intuitionist: 4 stars
The intuitionist by Colson Whitehead
Who tampered with the elevator?
The mundane job of elevator inspection becomes a mysterious tale of intrigue. Whitehead weaves …
Fenwick McKelvey rated Handmaid's Tale: 4 stars
Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood (The Handmaid's Tale, #1)
It is the world of the near future, and Offred is a Handmaid in the home of the Commander and …