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The best way to predict the future is to create it yourself.

Casual profundities sweep by almost unnoticed in José Saramago's urgent yet effortless run-on writing style, very ably translated by Margaret Jull Costa. By the time we arrive at the vast nameless city with the protagonist potter and his family, the discovery at the heart of the story is as much a shock to the reader as it is to our characters.

Matthew Hughes has an effortlessly witty writing style that is a pleasure to read as we explore the Commons of his evocative 'noösphere', along with several other inventive concepts, any of which would be substantial enough to write several more books on.

Edifying treatise on the Daoist art (and perhaps necessity) of detaching role from self-identity and vice-versa, as illustrated in the Zhuangzi.