Robert Pickering rated Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?: 4 stars
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick
It was January 2021, and Rick Deckard had a license to kill. Somewhere among the hordes of humans out there, …
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Robert Pickering rated The Honourable Schoolboy: 4 stars
The Honourable Schoolboy by John le Carré
In the aftermath of the events described in Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy, George Smiley attempts to bring the Circus …
Robert Pickering rated The Spy Who Came In From the Cold: 3 stars
The Spy Who Came In From the Cold by John le Carré
In this classic, John le Carré's third novel and the first to earn him international acclaim, he created a world …
Robert Pickering rated Irrationality: 5 stars
Robert Pickering rated The blue afternoon: 3 stars
Robert Pickering rated The Golden Compass: 4 stars
The Golden Compass by Philip Pullman
In a landmark epic of fantasy and storytelling, Philip Pullman invites readers into a world as convincing and thoroughly realized …
Robert Pickering rated The wasp factory: 4 stars
The wasp factory by Iain M. Banks
Frank, no ordinary sixteen-year-old, lives with his father outsIde a remote Scottish village. Their life is, to say the least, …
Robert Pickering rated Surface Detail: 5 stars
Surface Detail by Iain M. Banks
It begins in the realm of the Real, where matter still matters.
It begins with a murder.
And it will …
Robert Pickering rated The Player of Games: 4 stars
The Player of Games by Iain M. Banks
The Player of Games is a science fiction novel by Scottish writer Iain M. Banks, first published in 1988. It …
Robert Pickering rated Fahrenheit 451: 3 stars
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
The terrifyingly prophetic novel of a post-literate future.
Guy Montag is a fireman. His job is to burn books, which …
Robert Pickering rated Against A Dark Background: 3 stars
Against A Dark Background by Iain M. Banks
Sharrow was once the leader of a personality-attuned combat team in one of the sporadic little commercial wars in the …
Robert Pickering rated Snow Crash: 5 stars
Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson
In reality, Hiro Protagonist delivers pizza for Uncle Enzo’s CosaNostra Pizza Inc., but in the Metaverse he’s a warrior prince. …
Robert Pickering rated The Cobweb: 3 stars
The Cobweb by Neal Stephenson, J. Frederick George
From his triumphant debut with Snow Crash to the stunning success of his latest novel, Quicksilver, Neal Stephenson has quickly …
Robert Pickering rated The Bridge: 3 stars
The Bridge by Iain M. Banks
Orr, the otherwise unnamed protagonist of this Pynchonesque novel, is a successful Scottish engineer who's a bit fed up with …