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 …
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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 a …
Fenwick McKelvey rated The City & the City: 5 stars
The City & the City by China Miéville
When a murdered woman is found in the city of Beszel, somewhere at the edge of Europe, it looks to …
Fenwick McKelvey rated Dead Astronauts: 4 stars
Fenwick McKelvey rated A Fire Upon The Deep: 3 stars
A Fire Upon The Deep by Vernor Vinge (Zones of Thought, #1)
Thousands of years in the future, humanity is no longer alone in a universe where a mind's potential is determined …
Fenwick McKelvey rated Cryptonomicon: 1 star
Fenwick McKelvey rated The Doomsday Machine: 4 stars
The Doomsday Machine by Daniel Ellsberg
420 pages ; 25 cm
Fenwick McKelvey rated So long and thanks for all the fish: 3 stars
So long and thanks for all the fish by Douglas Adams (Hitchhiker -- Bk. 4)
There is a knack to flying. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss. …
Fenwick McKelvey rated Slaughterhouse-five, Or, The Children's Crusade: 4 stars
Slaughterhouse-five, Or, The Children's Crusade by Kurt Vonnegut
Slaughterhouse-Five, also known as The Children's Crusade: A Duty-Dance with Death is a science fiction infused anti-war novel by Kurt …
Fenwick McKelvey rated Blood Meridian: 5 stars
Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy
Blood Meridian or The Evening Redness in the West is a 1985 epic novel by American author Cormac McCarthy, classified …
Fenwick McKelvey rated A Memory Called Empire: 4 stars
A Memory Called Empire by Arkady Martine
A Memory Called Empire is a 2019 science fiction novel, the debut novel by Arkady Martine. It follows Mahit Dzmare, …
Fenwick McKelvey rated Ubik (Spanish Edition): 4 stars
Ubik (Spanish Edition) by Philip K. Dick
Ubik, written in 1966 and published in 1969, is one of Philip K. Dick's masterpieces (The Three Stigmata of Plamer …
Fenwick McKelvey rated Ann Leckie's Ancillary Justice: 4 stars
David M. Higgins: Ann Leckie's Ancillary Justice (2022, Springer International Publishing AG)
Ann Leckie's Ancillary Justice by David M. Higgins
NB! This is not Ancilliary Justice, but a crititical companion.
This book argues that Ann Leckie’s novel Ancillary Justice offers …
Fenwick McKelvey rated Annihilation: 5 stars
Annihilation by Jeff VanderMeer (Southern Reach, #1)
Area X has been cut off from the rest of the world for decades. Nature has reclaimed the last vestiges …