Tuesday, June 3, 2025

Ethan Rutherford's NORTH SUN or THE VOYAGE OF THE WHALESHIP ESTHER

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We're told not to judge books by their covers, and to that I mostly hold, but occasionally I must make an exception. When this beauty st...
Saturday, May 31, 2025

Antoine Volodine's RADIANT TERMINUS (Tr by Jeffrey Zuckerman)

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Recently I indulged in a buddy read with my old pal, the Popqueenie, of one of my favorite Philip K. Dick novels, Dr. Bloodmoney , so that ...
Friday, May 30, 2025

Robert K. Merton's ON THE SHOULDERS OF GIANTS: A SHANDEAN POSTSCRIPT

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"If I have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants." - Isaac Newton in a letter to Robert Hooke, 1675. Memes ar...
Tuesday, May 20, 2025

Raymond St. Elmo's LETTERS FROM A SHIPWRECK IN THE SEA OF SUNS AND MOONS

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To a certain degree, I'm still trying to figure out the freaking ocean of words I just swam through, as I contemplate the very unusual a...
Sunday, May 4, 2025

Jared Pechaček's THE WEST PASSAGE (Narr by Steve West)

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Ok, bear with me here. Things are gonna get weird. I know, I know, when are they not? But this is in the upper reaches of the kind of weird ...
Friday, May 2, 2025

Adam Erlich Sachs' THE ORGANS OF SENSE

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It was well known at that time that meteorological conditions in Prague were usually connected to conditions in the Emperor's mind, a ph...

Rick Harsch's THE MANIFOLD DESTINY OF EDDIE VEGAS

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Did you ever wonder what kind of books our culture would have to enjoy if, instead of ho-hum Europe, the Old World, James Joyce had spent hi...