| Book Id | Title | Author | Author l-f | Additional Authors | ISBN | ISBN13 | My Rating | Average Rating | Publisher | Binding | Number of Pages | Year Published | Original Publication Year | Date Read | Date Added | Bookshelves | Bookshelves with positions | Exclusive Shelf | My Review | Spoiler | Private Notes | Read Count | Recommended For | Recommended By | Owned Copies | Original Purchase Date | Original Purchase Location | Condition | Condition Description | BCID |
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| 219597 | Noctuary | Thomas Ligotti | Ligotti, Thomas | ="0786702354" | ="9780786702350" | 0 | 4.06 | Running Press | Paperback | 208 | 1995 | 1994 | 2020/11/09 | currently-reading | currently-reading (#48) | currently-reading | 1 | 0 | ||||||||||||
| 2794 | The Crying of Lot 49 | Thomas Pynchon | Pynchon, Thomas | ="006091307X" | ="9780060913076" | 0 | 3.69 | Harper Perennial | Paperback | 152 | 2006 | 1966 | 2020/11/09 | to-read | to-read (#188) | to-read | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||||
| 6235088 | Lacan: A Beginner's Guide | Lionel Bailly | Bailly, Lionel | ="1851686371" | ="9781851686377" | 0 | 4.07 | Oneworld Publications | Paperback | 256 | 2009 | 2009 | 2020/11/09 | to-read | to-read (#187) | to-read | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||||
| 42800306 | High Weirdness: Drugs, Esoterica, and Visionary Experiences in the Seventies | Erik Davis | Davis, Erik | ="1907222766" | ="9781907222764" | 5 | 4.32 | MIT Press | Hardcover | 550 | 2019 | 2020/11/09 | 2019/10/06 | read | 1 | 0 | ||||||||||||||
| 33309805 | Doorbells, Danger, and Dead Batteries: User Research War Stories | Steve Portigal | Portigal, Steve | ="" | ="" | 0 | 4.07 | Rosenfeld Media | Kindle Edition | 248 | 2016 | 2016 | 2020/11/07 | to-read | to-read (#186) | to-read | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||||
| 23848323 | Dawn of the New Everything: Encounters with Reality and Virtual Reality | Jaron Lanier | Lanier, Jaron | ="1627794093" | ="9781627794091" | 0 | 3.90 | Henry Holt and Co. | Hardcover | 304 | 2017 | 2017 | 2020/11/07 | to-read | to-read (#185) | to-read | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||||
| 109774 | Science and Sanity: An Introduction to Non-Aristotelian Systems and General Semantics | Alfred Korzybski | Korzybski, Alfred | ="0937298018" | ="9780937298015" | 0 | 4.39 | Institute of General Semantics | Hardcover | 806 | 1994 | 1933 | 2020/11/07 | to-read | to-read (#184) | to-read | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||||
| 149267 | The Stand | Stephen King | King, Stephen | Bernie Wrightson | ="0385199570" | ="9780385199575" | 0 | 4.34 | Doubleday Books | Hardcover | 1153 | 1990 | 1978 | 2020/10/03 | currently-reading | currently-reading (#43) | currently-reading | 1 | 0 | |||||||||||
| 437210 | Sign and Subject: Semiotic and Psychoanalytic Investigations Into Poetry | Daniel Laferriere | Laferriere, Daniel | ="9031601381" | ="9789031601387" | 0 | 0.0 | Peter de Ridder Press | Paperback | 103 | 1978 | 1978 | 2020/10/12 | currently-reading | currently-reading (#44) | currently-reading | 1 | 0 | ||||||||||||
| 2159703 | The Writer Within: How to Discover Your Own Ideas, Get Them on Paper, and Sell Them for Publication | Lary Bloom | Bloom, Lary | ="0809240572" | ="9780809240579" | 0 | 3.75 | McGraw-Hill/Contemporary | Paperback | 218 | 1991 | 1991 | 2020/11/06 | currently-reading | currently-reading (#47) | currently-reading | 1 | 0 | ||||||||||||
| 120240 | Masterpieces of Terror and the Supernatural | Marvin Kaye | Kaye, Marvin | Saralee Kaye,, Richard L. Wexelblat, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Edward D. Hoch, Jack Snow, Tanith Lee, Lafcadio Hearn, J. Sheridan Le Fanu, Orson Scott Card, Gottfried August Bürger, Isaac Bashevis Singer, Bram Stoker, Edgar Allan Poe, Ray Russell, Richard Matheson, Ludwig Tieck, Maurice Level, Isaac Asimov, H.F. Arnold, Dick Baldwin, A. Merritt, Ogden Nash, Theodore Sturgeon, Dylan Thomas, Parke Godwin, Leonid Andreyev, Alfred McClelland Burrage, Pierre Courtois, Jack London, Walt Whitman, Stephen Crane, Ambrose Bierce, Saki, Ivan Turgenev, John Dickson Carr, Tennessee Williams, Damon Runyon, W.C. Morrow, Alfred Tennyson, Stanley Ellis, Guy de Maupassant, Robert Aickman, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Robert Bloch, Patricia Highsmith, Fitz-James O'Brien, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Robert Louis Stevenson, Craig Shaw Gardner, M. Lucie Chin, J.R.R. Tolkien | ="0385185499" | ="9780385185493" | 0 | 4.26 | Doubleday & Company, Inc. | Hardcover | 616 | 1985 | 1985 | 2020/11/05 | currently-reading | currently-reading (#46) | currently-reading | 1 | 0 | |||||||||||
| 218368 | Things That Go Bump in the Night | Louis C. Jones | Jones, Louis C. | ="0815601840" | ="9780815601845" | 0 | 4.05 | Syracuse University Press | Paperback | 228 | 1983 | 1959 | 2020/11/05 | 2020/11/02 | read | 1 | 0 | |||||||||||||
| 24611751 | Psycho-Cybernetics, Updated and Expanded | Maxwell Maltz | Maltz, Maxwell | ="0399176136" | ="9780399176135" | 0 | 4.26 | TarcherPerigee | Paperback | 336 | 2015 | 1960 | 2020/11/04 | to-read | to-read (#183) | to-read | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||||
| 52261634 | Dead Lies Dreaming (Dead Lies Dreaming #1) | Charles Stross | Stross, Charles | ="" | ="" | 0 | 4.19 | Orbit | Kindle Edition | 384 | 2020 | 2020 | 2020/10/31 | currently-reading | currently-reading (#45) | currently-reading | 1 | 0 | ||||||||||||
| 451718 | Secret Life: Firsthand, Documented Accounts of Ufo Abductions | David M. Jacobs | Jacobs, David M. | John E. Mack | ="0671797204" | ="9780671797201" | 3 | 3.97 | Atria Books | Paperback | 336 | 1993 | 1992 | 2020/10/31 | 2020/10/30 | read | While methodological issues prevent it from being a serious work of ufology, as literature it's compelling, and it does shine a light on the fraction of abduction schema Jacobs has decided to consider worth study. | 1 | 0 | |||||||||||
| 49038290 | Collected Fiction | John Ohno | Ohno, John | ="1712637770" | ="9781712637777" | 0 | 0.0 | Independently Published | Paperback | 26 | 2019 | 2020/10/30 | read | 1 | 0 | |||||||||||||||
| 41212510 | Big and Small Computing: Trajectories for the Future of Software | John Ohno | Ohno, John | ="" | ="" | 0 | 3.00 | Kindle Edition | 229 | 2018 | 2020/10/30 | read | 1 | 0 | ||||||||||||||||
| 49036942 | Software Versus Capital | John Ohno | Ohno, John | ="1712598651" | ="9781712598658" | 0 | 0.0 | Independently Published | Paperback | 68 | 2019 | 2020/10/30 | read | 1 | 0 | |||||||||||||||
| 54935505 | Castle of Horror Anthology Volume 4: Women Running from Houses | Jason Henderson | Henderson, Jason | Michael Aronovitz, Amanda DeWees, Jeremiah Dylan Cook, John Ohno, Bonnie Jo Stufflebeam, Jim Towns, Leanna Renee Hieber, Alethea Kontis, Rob Nisbet, Charles R. Rutledge, Henry Herz, Tony Jones, Sam Knight, Scott Pearson | ="" | ="" | 5 | 4.00 | Castle Bridge Media | Kindle Edition | 278 | 2020 | 2020/09/26 | 2020/09/17 | read | I may be biased (as a contributor to this collection) but I don't think there's a weak story in the bunch. | 1 | 0 | ||||||||||||
| 1991384 | Gothic Tales of Terror: Volume 1 | Peter Haining | Haining, Peter | ="0140036881" | ="9780140036886" | 3 | 3.37 | Penguin Books Limited | Paperback | 543 | 1973 | 1972 | 2020/08/07 | 2020/05/21 | read | While historically interesting, the selection of stories here is disappointing: many are dull, and most have little in common with what a modern reader thinks of as the gothic sensibility. Haining's choices are motivated by Montague Summers', and Summers (while influential) was a deeply strange man whose life and literary career seems driven by a need to be contrarian; his ideas about what makes for a good or interesting piece of gothic short fiction does nothing to contest this. | 1 | 0 | ||||||||||||
| 59219 | The Talisman (The Talisman, #1) | Stephen King | King, Stephen | Peter Straub | ="0375507779" | ="9780375507779" | 3 | 4.13 | Random House | Hardcover | 656 | 2001 | 1984 | 2020/10/02 | 2020/09/11 | read | This book was interesting to read from a historical perspective, because of the trajectory of both King and Straub's careers. In some ways, it feels like a trial run for both Straub's Shadowland and King's It (both of which would come out only a few years later); in other ways, it shares elements from The Stand and Ghost Story that otherwise don't show up much in these authors' respective ouvres. So, it's kind of a missing-link book. It's also a historically important book, because (as Matthew Kirschenbaum notes in Track Changes, his cultural history of word processing) it is the first published book to be collaborated upon electronically. King and Straub were both early adopters of consumer word processing technology, and though they used different types of machines, they had a highly technical friend set up modems and a format converter and they swapped revisions once a day over the phone lines. As with Bruce Sterling and William Gibson's later collaboration on The Difference Engine, they successively went over each others' prose until it blended, and so parts of this book feel very King and parts feel very Straub and occasionally they feel like both, but they never are entirely recognizable. That said, for all its length, The Talisman doesn't contain a lot of genuinely new-feeling content. It manages to feel extremely modern, which King and Straub's other books from this period don't, but it also feels like a rehash of ideas done better in their other books. It is also a portal fantasy, with a twist that is not as original as the authors seem to think and whose relatively limited potential is nevertheless squandered by a focus on other things. Also, if you are uneasy with some of King and Straub's more problematic fixations, they are here in full force: one major plot point involves not just a magical negro martyring himself for a white boy but the fact that said white boy cannot tell old black men apart; another involves this boy balancing his need to hitchhike with being completely irresistible to gay men. Ultimately, this book also has what might be the most anticlimactic ending of either King or Straub's career. I recommend this book to completionists or folks who are interested in the career history of these giants of horror fiction, but not to folks who want a scary yarn -- because it ain't that interesting and it ain't that scary. |
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| 60071 | Cybertext: Perspectives on Ergodic Literature | Espen J. Aarseth | Aarseth, Espen J. | ="0801855799" | ="9780801855795" | 4 | 3.86 | Johns Hopkins University Press | Paperback | 216 | 1997 | 1997 | 2020/10/09 | 2020/10/06 | read | This book is alternately enlightening and infurating. On the one hand, it is a seminal text for game design because it integrates games into the existing traditions of literary theory in a more thoughtful way than had previously been done. On the other hand, at the time it was written, it seems to have been intended primarily as a volley in an ongoing culture war in a tiny corner of digital humanities. Aarseth calls bullshit on certain then-widespread claims about hypertext by pointing to actually-existing hypertext systems like StorySpace and the World Wide Web and noting that they don't provide the claimed capabilities -- and here, he is right. Then he extends the criticism to Ted Nelson, whose ideas about hypertext Aarseth understands no better than Tim Berners-Lee did: a mistake, because Ted's proposed (and prototyped) systems do, indeed, have those features. This is a pattern Aarseth repeats throughout the book: he makes perfectly valid and trenchant criticisms of an existing idea, only to either extend those criticisms beyond reasonable bounds or propose a 'solution' that has exactly the same problems. This book is also an interesting time capsule of ergodic literature in the 90s. The MUD transcripts show that internet culture has not changed since 1996 (being, as they are, a bunch of furries role-playing that they are licking and cuddling each other). The section on Racter has a very 80s flavor but demonstrates exactly the same kinds of problems we see in modern entertainment-oriented "AI" systems. This is a fun book to read (especially if you like to be angry about things that don't matter), and it's a historically important book. It is also an enlightening book, because it reframes now-common experiences in interesting ways that have not seen widespread use. |
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| 851542 | Religion in the Making | Alfred North Whitehead | Whitehead, Alfred North | Mevlüt Albayrak | ="0823216462" | ="9780823216468" | 3 | 3.40 | Fordham University Press | Paperback | 256 | 1996 | 1926 | 2020/10/12 | 2020/10/12 | read | I don't agree with basically anything in this book, but I kept thinking about it for weeks after finishing it, and that's pretty rare for a book that can be consumed in an hour or two. | 1 | 0 | |||||||||||
| 9429576 | Nomad Codes: Adventures in Modern Esoterica | Erik Davis | Davis, Erik | Susan Willmarth | ="1891241540" | ="9781891241543" | 5 | 3.98 | Yeti Publishing | Paperback | 352 | 2010 | 2009 | 2020/10/29 | 2020/10/09 | read | After finishing this book, I had a minor existential crisis: my sense of self-worth is based largely on the idea that I have a unique combination of interests, and therefore, can create unique syntheses, but here was Erik Davis demonstrating that not only is he into everything I'm into, but he has also done scholarly-level research into all of those things, performed risky direct experiments with them, and (to top it all off) he can write about them with both flair and lucidity! And then, here he is digging deep into things I've never heard of. This book is an excellent, informative, and joyful way to make yourself feel inadequate as an intellectual and as a weirdo. I highly recommend it. |
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| 40758137 | Nature's God: Historical Illuminatus Chronicles Volume 3 | Robert Anton Wilson | Wilson, Robert Anton | ="0998713457" | ="9780998713458" | 0 | 4.09 | Hilaritas Press, LLC. | Paperback | 250 | 2018 | 1991 | 2020/10/30 | read | 1 | 0 | ||||||||||||||
| 365 | Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency (Dirk Gently, #1) | Douglas Adams | Adams, Douglas | ="" | ="" | 0 | 3.98 | Pocket Books | Mass Market Paperback | 306 | 2002 | 1987 | 2020/10/30 | read | 1 | 0 | ||||||||||||||
| 8130077 | The Screwtape Letters | C.S. Lewis | Lewis, C.S. | ="" | ="" | 0 | 4.22 | Kindle Edition | 228 | 1942 | 2020/10/30 | to-read | to-read (#182) | to-read | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||||||
| 7799477 | The Book Of English Magic | Philip Carr-Gomm | Carr-Gomm, Philip | Richard Heygate | ="1848540418" | ="9781848540415" | 0 | 3.91 | John Murray Publishers | Paperback | 562 | 2010 | 2009 | 2020/10/30 | to-read | to-read (#181) | to-read | 0 | 0 | |||||||||||
| 41447687 | Radicalized | Cory Doctorow | Doctorow, Cory | ="1789541093" | ="9781789541090" | 0 | 4.06 | Head of Zeus | Hardcover | 304 | 2019 | 2019 | 2020/10/30 | to-read | to-read (#180) | to-read | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||||
| 53511328 | The Art of Prompt, 2500 Offensive Inspiring Writing Prompts For Writers and Lovers to Improve Creative Writing Skills in Fiction, and NonFiction; A Journal: ... Build a Screenplay with Screenwriting Ideas | Cameron Monhagan | Monhagan, Cameron | ="" | ="" | 0 | 3.00 | Kindle Edition | 2020 | 2020/10/30 | to-read | to-read (#179) | to-read | 0 | 0 | |||||||||||||||
| 50643869 | Liminal by Cameron | Cameron | Cameron, Cameron | ="" | ="" | 0 | 4.38 | Kindle Edition | 2020 | 2017 | 2020/10/30 | to-read | to-read (#178) | to-read | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||||||
| 30344705 | Second Scream | Adrian Roe | Roe, Adrian | ="" | ="" | 0 | 4.62 | PublishNation | Kindle Edition | 233 | 2016 | 2020/10/30 | to-read | to-read (#177) | to-read | 0 | 0 | |||||||||||||
| 23903670 | First Scream to the Last | Adrian Roe | Roe, Adrian | ="" | ="" | 0 | 4.08 | PublishNation | Kindle Edition | 330 | 2014 | 2014 | 2020/10/30 | to-read | to-read (#176) | to-read | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||||
| 36112930 | Tor.com Publishing's Fall of Fear Sampler | Paul Cornell | Cornell, Paul | Jeffrey Ford, Melissa F. Olson, Tade Thompson | ="" | ="" | 0 | 3.88 | Tor.com | Kindle Edition | 67 | 2017 | 2017 | 2020/10/30 | to-read | to-read (#175) | to-read | 0 | 0 | |||||||||||
| 791345 | Picnic at Hanging Rock | Joan Lindsay | Lindsay, Joan | ="0099750619" | ="9780099750611" | 0 | 3.70 | Vintage | Paperback | 189 | 1998 | 1967 | 2020/10/30 | to-read | to-read (#174) | to-read | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||||
| 49127471 | Zoey Punches the Future in the Dick (Zoey Ashe, #2) | David Wong | Wong, David | ="1250195799" | ="9781250195791" | 0 | 4.39 | St. Martin's Press | Hardcover | 368 | 2020 | 2020 | 2020/10/16 | 2020/10/15 | read | 1 | 0 | |||||||||||||
| 52036 | Siddhartha | Hermann Hesse | Hesse, Hermann | Hilda Rosner | ="" | ="" | 0 | 4.03 | Bantam Books | Mass Market Paperback | 152 | 1981 | 1922 | 2020/10/15 | to-read | to-read (#173) | to-read | 0 | 0 | |||||||||||
| 101668 | Mount Analogue | René Daumal | Daumal, René | ="0715633791" | ="9780715633793" | 0 | 4.15 | Gerald Duckworth & Co Ltd | Paperback | 120 | 2005 | 1952 | 2020/10/15 | to-read | to-read (#172) | to-read | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||||
| 1108378 | What Is to Be Done? | Vladimir Lenin | Lenin, Vladimir | Robert Service, Joe Fineberg, George Hanna | ="0140181261" | ="9780140181265" | 0 | 3.90 | Penguin Classics | Paperback | 272 | 1990 | 1902 | 2020/10/09 | to-read | to-read (#171) | to-read | 0 | 0 | |||||||||||
| 408552 | A Complete Guide to the Tarot | Eden Gray | Gray, Eden | ="0553277529" | ="9780553277524" | 0 | 3.90 | Bantam | Paperback | 249 | 1982 | 1970 | 2020/09/27 | currently-reading | currently-reading (#42) | currently-reading | 1 | 0 | ||||||||||||
| 12344319 | The Weird: A Compendium of Strange and Dark Stories | Jeff VanderMeer | VanderMeer, Jeff | Ann VanderMeer, George R.R. Martin, Bob Leman, Haruki Murakami, Mervyn Peake, Michael Chabon, Neil Gaiman, William Gibson, Franz Kafka, Stephen King, Kelly Link | ="1848876874" | ="9781848876873" | 0 | 4.25 | Corvus | Paperback | 1152 | 2010 | 2010 | 2015/11/21 | currently-reading, owned | currently-reading (#1), owned (#54) | currently-reading | 1 | 0 | |||||||||||
| 53363562 | Castle of Horror Anthology Volume Three | Jason Henderson | Henderson, Jason | In Churl Yo, David Bowles, Jo Whittemore, Sam Knight, Michael Aronovitz, Alethea Kontis, Bonnie Jo Stufflebeam, Leanna Renee Hieber, John Peel, Drew Wolle, Rob Nisbet, David P. Geister | ="" | ="" | 0 | 4.29 | Castle Bridge Media | Kindle Edition | 2020 | 2020/09/19 | currently-reading | currently-reading (#41) | currently-reading | 1 | 0 | |||||||||||||
| 48823671 | Castle of Horror Anthology Volume Two: Holiday Horrors | Jason Henderson | Henderson, Jason | Tony Bloodworth, David Bowles, Sarah Stegall, P.J. Hoover, In Churl Yo, Michael Aronovitz, Sam Knight, Stephen D. Sullivan, David Boop, John Helfers | ="" | ="" | 0 | 4.47 | Castle Bridge Media | Kindle Edition | 372 | 2019 | 2019 | 2020/09/19 | 2020/08/11 | read | 1 | 0 | ||||||||||||
| 18310364 | Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses | Louis Althusser | Althusser, Louis | Işık Ergüden, Alp Tümertekin | ="1781682151" | ="9781781682159" | 0 | 4.10 | Verso | ebook | 288 | 2014 | 1970 | 2020/09/15 | to-read | to-read (#170) | to-read | 0 | 0 | |||||||||||
| 285356 | Synergetics: Explorations in the Geometry of Thinking | R. Buckminster Fuller | Fuller, R. Buckminster | ="0020653204" | ="9780020653202" | 0 | 4.29 | Macmillan Publsihing Company | Paperback | 876 | 1982 | 1975 | 2020/09/15 | to-read | to-read (#169) | to-read | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||||
| 552494 | The Psychology of Man's Possible Evolution | P.D. Ouspensky | Ouspensky, P.D. | ="0394719433" | ="" | 3 | 4.11 | Vintage Books | Paperback | 144 | 1973 | 1951 | 2020/09/15 | 2020/09/13 | read | Clearer than In Search of the Miraculous, and in parts more reasonable, it's nevertheless impossible to avoid being put off by the dogmatic language & some red flags (particularly in the final section). | 1 | 0 | ||||||||||||
| 233667 | Firestarter | Stephen King | King, Stephen | ="0451167805" | ="9780451167804" | 4 | 3.89 | Signet | Mass Market Paperback | 403 | 1998 | 1980 | 2020/09/11 | 2020/09/10 | read | Fast-paced with none of the flab one has come to expect from King (until the denoument, where he meanders for twenty pages). Full of vivid imagery. | 1 | 0 | ||||||||||||
| 53104013 | Thoughts On Writing | Richie Billing | Billing, Richie | ="" | ="" | 0 | 4.00 | Paperback | 240 | 2020 | 2020/09/07 | 2020/08/28 | read | 1 | 0 | |||||||||||||||
| 196150 | Japanese Tales of Mystery & Imagination | Edogawa Rampo | Rampo, Edogawa | James B. Harris | ="0804803196" | ="9780804803199" | 0 | 4.04 | Tuttle Publishing | Paperback | 222 | 1989 | 1956 | 2020/09/07 | to-read | to-read (#168) | to-read | 0 | 0 | |||||||||||
| 274004 | Mondo 2000: A User's Guide to the New Edge : Cyberpunk, Virtual Reality, Wetware, Designer Aphrodisiacs, Artificial Life, Techno-Erotic Paganism, an | Rudy Rucker | Rucker, Rudy | R.U. Sirius | ="0060969288" | ="9780060969288" | 0 | 4.06 | Perennial | Paperback | 317 | 1992 | 1992 | 2020/09/06 | 2016/07/05 | owned | owned (#195) | read | 1 | 0 | ||||||||||
| 17899948 | Rebecca | Daphne du Maurier | Maurier, Daphne du | ="0316323705" | ="9780316323703" | 0 | 4.23 | Little, Brown and Company | ebook | 449 | 2013 | 1938 | 2020/09/03 | 2020/08/09 | read | 1 | 0 | |||||||||||||
| 45168909 | Castle of Horror Anthology Volume One: A Collection of Stories from the Minds behind the Castle of Horror Podcast | Jason Henderson | Henderson, Jason | Kevin J. Anderson, Jessica Lee Anderson, David Bowles, P.J. Hoover, Guadalupe Garcia McCall, Tom Waltz, Leanna Renee Hieber, Lara Parker, Mario Acevedo, Michael Aronovitz, Tony Bloodworth, Julia Guzman, Barry Barclay, In Churl Yo | ="" | ="" | 0 | 3.97 | Castle Bridge Media | Kindle Edition | 425 | 2019 | 2020/08/10 | 2020/06/27 | read | 1 | 0 | |||||||||||||
| 500617 | A Book of Surrealist Games | Mel Gooding | Gooding, Mel | Alastair Brotchie, Alexis Lykiard, Jennifer Batchelor | ="1570620849" | ="9781570620843" | 0 | 4.09 | Shambhala | Paperback | 176 | 1995 | 1995 | 2020/08/09 | to-read | to-read (#167) | to-read | 0 | 0 | |||||||||||
| 18693677 | American Monsters: A History of Monster Lore, Legends, and Sightings in America | Linda S. Godfrey | Godfrey, Linda S. | ="0399165541" | ="9780399165542" | 0 | 3.46 | TarcherPerigee | Paperback | 384 | 2014 | 2014 | 2020/08/09 | to-read | to-read (#166) | to-read | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||||
| 37752621 | How to Invent Everything: A Survival Guide for the Stranded Time Traveller | Ryan North | North, Ryan | ="0753552558" | ="9780753552551" | 0 | 4.14 | Virgin Digital | ebook | 464 | 2018 | 2018 | 2020/07/18 | currently-reading | currently-reading (#37) | currently-reading | 1 | 0 | ||||||||||||
| 80369 | Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison | Michel Foucault | Foucault, Michel | Alan Sheridan | ="0679752552" | ="9780679752554" | 0 | 4.22 | Vintage | Paperback | 352 | 1995 | 1975 | 2020/08/01 | currently-reading | currently-reading (#40) | currently-reading | 1 | 0 | |||||||||||
| 213804 | Black Sun: Aryan Cults, Esoteric Nazism, and the Politics of Identity | Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke | Goodrick-Clarke, Nicholas | ="0814731554" | ="9780814731550" | 0 | 3.74 | New York University Press | Paperback | 371 | 2003 | 2001 | 2020/08/01 | currently-reading | currently-reading (#39) | currently-reading | 1 | 0 | ||||||||||||
| 6705771 | Literary Machines | Theodor Holm Nelson | Nelson, Theodor Holm | ="0893470554" | ="9780893470555" | 0 | 4.48 | Mindful Press | Paperback | 0 | 1988 | 1988 | 2020/08/06 | read | 1 | 0 | ||||||||||||||
| 1984197 | Non-Leninist Marxism: Writings on the Worker's Councils | Herman Gorter | Gorter, Herman | Anton Pannekoek, Estelle Sylvia Pankhurst | ="0979181364" | ="9780979181368" | 0 | 3.96 | Red and Black Publishers | Paperback | 173 | 2007 | 2007 | 2020/08/01 | to-read | to-read (#165) | to-read | 0 | 0 | |||||||||||
| 16600 | Raiser of Gales (Vampire Hunter D, #2) | Hideyuki Kikuchi | Kikuchi, Hideyuki | Yoshitaka Amano | ="1595820140" | ="9781595820143" | 4 | 3.86 | Digital Manga Publishing / Dark Horse | Paperback | 250 | 1984 | 2020/07/30 | 2020/07/20 | read | 1 | 0 | |||||||||||||
| 35721524 | Occulture: The Unseen Forces That Drive Culture Forward | Carl Abrahamsson | Abrahamsson, Carl | Gary Lachman | ="1620557037" | ="9781620557037" | 1 | 3.58 | Park Street Press | Paperback | 256 | 2018 | 2018 | 2020/07/28 | 2019/03/07 | owned | owned (#287) | read | A collection of previously-published essays, sophomoric in both style and character, and ranging from mediocre to unpublishable in quality. If you are a practitioner of magick or have an intellectual interest in its intersection with art, this book is not for you; if you believe that "sjws are ruining magick" and would like someone to agree with you at length without supporting his points, you will find that this book meets your needs. The experience of reading this slog was made even more disappointing by the occasional hint of potential: every few essays, Abrahamsson will make half of a good point, or reference a potentially interesting idea, only to drop it. Had he kept to the ostensible topic of his essays or explored interesting points rather than lazily going back to flogging the same dead horse in every section, he might have written something worth reading, but: what is good here isn't new, and what is new here isn't good. I like and respect Erik Davis, Mitch Horowitz, and Gary Lachman, and would have loved to read the book they were describing in the glowing blurbs that somehow got attributed to this hunk of dry rot. |
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| 1494353 | Applied Apl Programming | Wilbur R. LePage | LePage, Wilbur R. | Wilbur R. Le Page | ="0130400637" | ="9780130400635" | 0 | 0.0 | Prentice Hall | Hardcover | 2020/07/24 | currently-reading | currently-reading (#38) | currently-reading | 1 | 0 | ||||||||||||||
| 909451 | The Compleat Enchanter | L. Sprague de Camp | Camp, L. Sprague de | Fletcher Pratt | ="0345314352" | ="9780345314352" | 4 | 3.98 | Del Rey | Mass Market Paperback | 416 | 1984 | 1940 | 2020/07/17 | 2020/07/09 | read | Solid, compelling, and entertaining. With the exception of the orientalist aspects of the last novella (presumably imported from the original work) and the subtle misogyny of the protagonist (perhaps intended as a character flaw), these stories have aged pretty well. | 1 | 0 | |||||||||||
| 20186 | Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed | James C. Scott | Scott, James C. | ="0300078153" | ="9780300078152" | 0 | 4.20 | Yale University Press | Paperback | 445 | 1998 | 1998 | 2019/03/07 | owned, currently-reading | owned (#283), currently-reading (#35) | currently-reading | 1 | 0 | ||||||||||||
| 809382 | 'Isms & 'Ologies: All the Movements, Ideologies and Doctrines That Have Shaped Our World | Arthur Goldwag | Goldwag, Arthur | ="0307279073" | ="9780307279071" | 0 | 3.61 | Vintage | Paperback | 416 | 2007 | 2007 | 2020/07/07 | 2020/06/27 | read | 1 | 0 | |||||||||||||
| 1860481 | Revolutionary Pamphlets | Pyotr Kropotkin | Kropotkin, Pyotr | ="0486225194" | ="9780486225197" | 0 | 4.21 | Dover Publications Inc. | Paperback | 315 | 1971 | 1968 | 2020/07/05 | to-read | to-read (#164) | to-read | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||||
| 19125054 | Binding Chaos: Mass Collaboration on a Global Scale | Heather Marsh | Marsh, Heather | ="1489527680" | ="9781489527684" | 0 | 4.44 | Createspace Independent Publishing Platform | Paperback | 130 | 2013 | 2013 | 2020/07/05 | to-read | to-read (#163) | to-read | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||||
| 2887770 | The Edge of Reality: A Progress Report on Unidentified Flying Objects | J. Allen Hynek | Hynek, J. Allen | Jacques F. Vallée | ="0809281503" | ="9780809281503" | 0 | 4.05 | Henry Regnery Co. (Chicago) | Hardcover | 317 | 1976 | 1975 | 2018/02/27 | currently-reading | currently-reading (#36) | currently-reading | 1 | 0 | |||||||||||
| 43593384 | The Collected Pulp Horror: Volume One | Justin Marriott | Marriott, Justin | Will Errickson | ="1793987548" | ="9781793987549" | 0 | 4.16 | Independently published | Paperback | 130 | 2019 | 2020/06/29 | 2020/06/28 | owned | owned (#345) | read | 1 | 0 | |||||||||||
| 26846458 | Hyenas | Michael Sellars | Sellars, Michael | ="" | ="" | 0 | 4.09 | Kindle Edition | 275 | 2015 | 2015 | 2020/06/27 | 2020/04/01 | read | 1 | 0 | ||||||||||||||
| 634559 | Great Ghost Stories | John Grafton | Grafton, John | Ambrose Bierce, Amelia B. Edwards, Charles Dickens, Jerome K. Jerome, W.W. Jacobs, M.R. James, E.G. Swain, E.F. Benson, Bram Stoker, J. Sheridan Le Fanu | ="0486272702" | ="9780486272702" | 0 | 3.79 | Dover Publications | Paperback | 112 | 1992 | 1992 | 2020/06/26 | 2020/06/09 | owned | owned (#344) | read | 1 | 0 | ||||||||||
| 6548264 | Cults, Conspiracies, and Secret Societies: The Straight Scoop on Freemasons, The Illuminati, Skull and Bones, Black Helicopters, The New World Order, and many, many more | Arthur Goldwag | Goldwag, Arthur | ="0307390675" | ="9780307390677" | 0 | 3.36 | Vintage | Paperback | 384 | 2009 | 2009 | 2020/06/25 | 2020/06/17 | read | 1 | 0 | |||||||||||||
| 38819245 | American Cosmic: UFOs, Religion, Technology | Diana Walsh Pasulka | Pasulka, Diana Walsh | ="019069288X" | ="9780190692889" | 1 | 3.76 | Oxford University Press, USA | Hardcover | 288 | 2019 | 2019 | 2020/06/16 | 2020/06/05 | owned | owned (#334) | read | Only repetition could allow a 244 page book to be this shallow. The author's doctorate in religious studies should have made her well-qualified to meaningfully expand on Jacques Vallee's Passport to Magonia (of which she claims to be a fan), but she instead betrays an ignorance of its contents, presenting material covered in it as though original, failing to mention important and relevant insights from it when covering that detail, and at one point, incomprehensibly claiming (apropos of nothing & against all evidence) that Vallee couldn't possibly be familiar with the work of Swenenbourg. The book is framed by an extended narrative section in which the author repeats the claims of a cartoonishly obvious con artist. Structurally, the book is a mess. In the narrative sections, we often jump around in time three to four times in a single paragraph. Even outside of those sections, sentences are choppy and confusing: consistently too short, with clauses clearly edited in from other, barely-related sentences. Aside from a vague gesture in the direction of media theory that would work better as a Guardian op-ed and a couple catholic-miracle deep cuts already covered better in Vallee, there is nothing here that someone with a casual interest in UFO lore would not already be familiar with (including the idea, repeated about 20 times in the first chapter and only slightly less often throughout the rest of the book, that religious studies scholars do not make judgements about the object-level validity of religions -- something everybody who has heard the term 'religious studied' knows). I wanted to like this book -- or else I wouldn't have spent twenty five dollars on it. I'm not mad; just disappointed. |
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| 46269117 | The UFO Experience | J. Allen Hynek | Hynek, J. Allen | ="0345246942" | ="9780345246943" | 0 | 3.85 | Ballantine Books | Mass Market Paperback | 1975 | 1972 | 2020/01/12 | currently-reading | currently-reading (#32) | currently-reading | 1 | 0 | |||||||||||||
| 4483494 | Interactive Programming Environments | David R. Barstow | Barstow, David R. | ="0070038856" | ="9780070038851" | 0 | 4.50 | McGraw-Hill Companies | Hardcover | 609 | 1984 | 2019/05/09 | currently-reading, owned | currently-reading (#23), owned (#343) | currently-reading | 1 | 0 | |||||||||||||
| 2699898 | Moderan | David R. Bunch | Bunch, David R. | ="0380024039" | ="9780380024032" | 0 | 3.75 | Avon Books | Mass Market Paperback | 240 | 1971 | 1971 | 2019/05/20 | currently-reading, owned | currently-reading (#24), owned (#342) | currently-reading | 1 | 0 | ||||||||||||
| 1104822 | Rivals of Sherlock Holmes: Forty Stories of Crime and Detection from Original Illustrated Magazines | Alan K. Russell | Russell, Alan K. | Grant Allen, Robert Barr, Arnold Bennett, Richard Harding Davis, Arthur Conan Doyle, L.T. Mead, Robert Eustace, Clifford Halifax, Arthur Morrison, Newton MacTavish, Emmuska Orczy, C.I. Pirkis, Clarence Rook, H.G. Wells, Fred M. White | ="0890092079" | ="9780890092071" | 0 | 3.56 | Castle Books | Hardcover | 484 | 1978 | 1979 | 2019/07/12 | 2019/07/12 | currently-reading, owned | currently-reading (#25), owned (#341) | currently-reading | 1 | 0 | ||||||||||
| 13588394 | The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail—But Some Don't | Nate Silver | Silver, Nate | ="159420411X" | ="9781594204111" | 0 | 3.98 | Penguin | Hardcover | 534 | 2012 | 2012 | 2019/08/03 | currently-reading, owned | currently-reading (#26), owned (#340) | currently-reading | 1 | 0 | ||||||||||||
| 291289 | Mindware: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Cognitive Science | Andy Clark | Clark, Andy | ="0195138570" | ="9780195138573" | 0 | 3.77 | Oxford University Press, USA | Paperback | 224 | 2000 | 2000 | 2019/09/06 | currently-reading, owned | currently-reading (#29), owned (#339) | currently-reading | 1 | 0 | ||||||||||||
| 530903 | In Search of the Miraculous: Fragments of an Unknown Teaching | P.D. Ouspensky | Ouspensky, P.D. | Marianne Williamson | ="0156007460" | ="9780156007467" | 0 | 3.99 | Mariner Books | Paperback | 416 | 2001 | 1947 | 2019/09/06 | currently-reading, owned | currently-reading (#28), owned (#338) | currently-reading | 1 | 0 | |||||||||||
| 2570440 | A Pictorial History of Horror Movies | Denis Gifford | Gifford, Denis | ="0600369269" | ="9780600369264" | 0 | 4.32 | Hamlyn | Hardcover | 216 | 1973 | 1973 | 2020/03/11 | currently-reading, owned | currently-reading (#33), owned (#337) | currently-reading | 1 | 0 | ||||||||||||
| 40963358 | Dhalgren | Samuel R. Delany | Delany, Samuel R. | William Gibson | ="" | ="" | 0 | 3.79 | Open Road Media Sci-Fi & Fantasy | Kindle Edition | 836 | 2014 | 1975 | 2020/04/06 | currently-reading, owned | currently-reading (#34), owned (#336) | currently-reading | 1 | 0 | |||||||||||
| 36320619 | Strange Stars: David Bowie, Pop Music, and the Decade Sci-Fi Exploded | Jason Heller | Heller, Jason | ="1612196977" | ="9781612196978" | 0 | 3.67 | Melville House | Hardcover | 302 | 2018 | 2018 | 2020/06/03 | 2020/05/30 | owned | owned (#335) | read | 1 | 0 | |||||||||||
| 222114 | Writing Science Fiction & Fantasy | Isaac Asimov | Asimov, Isaac | John Barnes, Norman Spinrad, Sheila Williams, Ian Randal Strock, Stanley Schmidt, James Patrick Kelly, Gardner Dozois, Robert A. Heinlein, Jane Yolen, Connie Willis, Poul Anderson, Hal Clement | ="0312089260" | ="9780312089269" | 0 | 3.72 | St. Martin's Griffin | Paperback | 258 | 1993 | 1991 | 2020/05/30 | 2020/05/28 | read | 1 | 0 | ||||||||||||
| 39934 | Reading Like a Writer: A Guide for People Who Love Books and for Those Who Want to Write Them | Francine Prose | Prose, Francine | ="0060777052" | ="9780060777050" | 3 | 3.77 | Harper Perennial | Paperback | 297 | 2007 | 2006 | 2020/05/28 | 2020/05/24 | read | A book like this lives and dies on how well it illustrates its points, and in this way, this one is only middling. Fully half of the first chapter is dedicated to a tangent about some imagined PC brigade forcing politics into literature by encouraging students to have opinions -- which a good editor would have cut, and someone in Prose's position ought to know better than to believe in the first place. She betrays misunderstandings of the tools and practices of literary theory unbecoming of an undergraduate in this section -- but her focus rightly is on style, not content, and when she sticks to this topic (as she does for the following three or four chapters) she makes fantastic points. Later in the book, as she starts getting closer to talking about meaning, she loses focus again and much of these later chapters are long quotes followed by only loosely related and unenlightening commentary. A better version of this book would be less than half the length and merely have cut those things the author is incapable of adequately explaining -- and such a book (composed of chapters two through five) would earn five stars from me. |
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| 424084 | Tools for Thought | Howard Rheingold | Rheingold, Howard | ="0262681153" | ="9780262681155" | 4 | 4.05 | MIT Press | Paperback | 360 | 2000 | 1985 | 2019/06/01 | 2019/05/20 | owned | owned (#333) | read | A well-researched and well-written popular history of the human-augmentation wing of computing. Early chapters will be familiar, since they tell the conventional histories of conventionally covered figures like Babbage, Lovelace, Turing, and Von Neumann in a conventional way (albeit with more detail). Coverage of Engelbart and Kay are very good. While Ted gets his own chapter, he barely appears in it (with the chapter mostly being about BBS surfing), and in Rheingold's afterword he doesn't catch up with Ted, even though the period from 1983-1999 is the juiciest for Xanadu & the most worrying from the perspective of somebody invested in the possibilities of good hypertext! (Though I could imagine Ted, sore about the Wired coverage & the way he was pushed out of his own chapter in the 1983 book, being uncooperative.) | 1 | 0 | ||||||||||
| 3573959 | More Ghost Stories of an Antiquary | M.R. James | James, M.R. | ="1557425574" | ="9781557425577" | 0 | 4.17 | Wildside Press | Hardcover | 126 | 2006 | 1911 | 2019/07/11 | owned | owned (#332) | read | 1 | 0 | ||||||||||||
| 17621103 | A True Novel | Minae Mizumura | Mizumura, Minae | Juliet Winters Carpenter | ="1590512030" | ="9781590512036" | 5 | 4.16 | Other Press | Paperback | 854 | 2013 | 2002 | 2019/07/21 | owned | owned (#331) | read | Minae Mizumura’s A True Novel was a lot more compelling than I expected it to be – Mizumura’s style (as modulated by the translator) is quietly engaging, and she paints a vivid picture without ever resorting to the kinds of fireworks that I usually prefer in prose. I was not caught out by having not read Wuthering Heights. I feel like the localization was somewhat inconsistent: in some cases, the translator fails to make explicit things that would confuse somebody totally unfamiliar with the japanese language, culture, and recent history, while in other cases, translation choices are made that are unnecessary to such a person or that actually eliminate information that would be of interest to such a person. (A concrete example: the translator fails to explain that pampas grass is a signifier of a haunted place in japanese ghost stories, says that the name ‘Fuyue’ is unexpected without explaining that the sisters’ names refer to seasons, and yet eliminates all honorifics & uses the same english word for two different japanese translations of ‘maid’ while talking about the distinctions between them.) However, the translation is generally very good, & I would have liked to read the translator’s notes. I got quite engrossed in it, even though it covers material that I don’t generally find interesting (I’m not enough of a weeb to be interested in literally everything japanese). | 1 | 0 | ||||||||||
| 7636063 | The Cybernetic Brain: Sketches of Another Future | Andrew Pickering | Pickering, Andrew | ="0226667898" | ="9780226667898" | 4 | 4.19 | University of Chicago Press | Hardcover | 536 | 2011 | 2010 | 2019/07/21 | 2019/06/04 | owned | owned (#330) | read | Andrew Pickering’s The Cybernetic Brain is full of interesting technical & biographical detail I wasn’t aware of from a lifetime of being casually interested in cybernetics, & makes some interesting meta-philosophical points about cybernetics as a discipline being performance-oriented. He claims that the way that cyberneticians are interested in the performative aspects of processes as opposed to a focus on categorization & situated knowledge is to blame for how difficult it was for early cyberneticians to find permanent slots in academia & that it made a lot of people find cybernetics hard to understand (since cybernetics is not really concerned with how information is stored or formatted, but only with how past experience can be made to influence future action). | 1 | 0 | ||||||||||
| 20863042 | Ghosts of My Life: Writings on Depression, Hauntology and Lost Futures | Mark Fisher | Fisher, Mark | ="1780992262" | ="9781780992266" | 4 | 3.99 | Zero Books | Paperback | 245 | 2014 | 2014 | 2019/07/21 | owned | owned (#329) | read | Mark Fischer’s Ghosts of My Life hung together less than I expected it to – it’s an essay collection composed mostly of previously-published material – and I was already familiar with some of the material in it simply from being in the general ecosystem of extremely-online left-theory people. However, it reminded me that Fischer, in addition to having a lot to say about Theory, was a skilled cultural/music critic, and as a result, I have a bunch of stuff I need to check out (and a new frame for making stuff I had previously dismissed interesting). | 1 | 0 | |||||||||||
| 34342010 | The Best of Richard Matheson | Richard Matheson | Matheson, Richard | Victor LaValle | ="014313017X" | ="9780143130178" | 4 | 4.16 | Penguin Classics | Paperback | 407 | 2017 | 2017 | 2019/07/21 | 2019/07/21 | owned | owned (#328) | read | Many of the stories in The Best of Richard Matheson are familiar from adaptation, but adaptation gets rid of some of Matheson’s interesting tics (like extensive use of eye-dialect and unreliable narration). LaVaille’s introduction is fantastic & worth the price of admission alone. | 1 | 0 | |||||||||
| 7937653 | The Mind's Eye | Oliver Sacks | Sacks, Oliver | ="033050889X" | ="9780330508896" | 5 | 3.91 | Picador USA | Hardcover | 263 | 2010 | 2010 | 2019/07/27 | 2019/07/27 | owned | owned (#327) | read | The Mind’s Eye is, like most of Sacks’ books, a series of compulsively readable case-studies with an autobiographical element – in this case, the overarching theme is the way people produce elaborate adaptations in order to remain functional when some of their faculties are removed, such as partial or total blindness late in life or the loss of the ability to speak or read. | 1 | 0 | ||||||||||
| 35429993 | Fall or, Dodge in Hell | Neal Stephenson | Stephenson, Neal | ="0062458736" | ="9780062458735" | 4 | 3.56 | William Morrow & Co | ebook | 896 | 2019 | 2019 | 2019/07/04 | 2019/06/16 | owned | owned (#326) | read | The connection to REAMDE made me worry that this would be another low-information unimaginative technothriller, but luckily, Stephenson returns to form here, producing something that synthesizes the down-to-earth focus and epic scale of the Baroque Cycle with the creativity of his wilder books & a new focus on mythology. It was good enough to make me consider re-reading REAMDE. | 1 | 0 | ||||||||||
| 388949 | Infinite Dreams | Joe Haldeman | Haldeman, Joe | ="0380476053" | ="9780380476053" | 0 | 3.75 | Avon Books (Dresden, TN) | Paperback | 224 | 1979 | 1978 | 2019/09/06 | 2019/08/26 | owned | owned (#325) | read | 1 | 0 | |||||||||||
| 46206218 | That Hideous Strength | C.S. Lewis | Lewis, C.S. | ="" | ="" | 3 | 3.89 | Kindle Edition | 482 | 2019 | 1945 | 2019/07/21 | owned | owned (#324) | read | C. S. Lewis’s That Hideous Strength combines some campus-politics satire with weird arthuriana in the style of The Dark is Rising and is political in ways that sometimes remind me of 1984, but the main appeal is how utterly alien Lewis’s political positions (which he takes to be obvious & universal) are to me. By the end of the book, it becomes clear that the previous books in the series are some kind of John Carter style sword & planet SF, & that this entry is a departure in genre. | 1 | 0 | ||||||||||||
| 8937443 | 猫物語 (黒) [Nekomonogatari] (Bakemonogatari, #4, Part 1) | NisiOisiN | NisiOisiN, NisiOisiN | VOFAN | ="406283748X" | ="9784062837484" | 0 | 4.13 | 講談社 | Paperback | 324 | 2010 | 2010 | 2019/09/28 | 2017/12/14 | owned | owned (#323) | read | 1 | 0 | ||||||||||
| 9670963 | 猫物語 (白) [Nekomonogatari] (Bakemonogatari, #4, Part 2) | NisiOisiN | NisiOisiN, NisiOisiN | VOFAN | ="4062837587" | ="9784062837583" | 0 | 4.49 | 講談社 | Paperback | 308 | 2010 | 2010 | 2019/10/05 | 2017/12/14 | owned | owned (#322) | read | 1 | 0 | ||||||||||
| 29845449 | The Weird and the Eerie | Mark Fisher | Fisher, Mark | ="1910924385" | ="9781910924389" | 0 | 4.07 | Repeater Books | Paperback | 134 | 2017 | 2016 | 2019/10/11 | 2019/10/10 | owned | owned (#321) | read | 1 | 0 | |||||||||||
| 19580 | Shadowland | Peter Straub | Straub, Peter | ="0425188221" | ="9780425188224" | 5 | 3.90 | Berkley | Mass Market Paperback | 468 | 2003 | 1980 | 2019/11/08 | 2019/11/03 | owned | owned (#320) | read | 1 | 0 | |||||||||||
| 830502 | It | Stephen King | King, Stephen | ="0450411435" | ="9780450411434" | 0 | 4.24 | New English Library | Paperback | 1116 | 1987 | 1986 | 2019/12/22 | 2019/11/08 | owned | owned (#319) | read | 1 | 0 | |||||||||||
| 12948 | The Turn of the Screw | Henry James | James, Henry | ="0140620613" | ="9780140620610" | 0 | 3.42 | Penguin | Paperback | 121 | 1994 | 1898 | 2019/12/27 | 2019/10/11 | owned | owned (#318) | read | 1 | 0 | |||||||||||
| 18273650 | Event | Slavoj Žižek | Žižek, Slavoj | ="1846146267" | ="9781846146268" | 0 | 3.73 | Penguin Books Ltd | Paperback | 212 | 2014 | 2014 | 2020/01/02 | 2019/12/30 | owned | owned (#317) | read | 1 | 0 | |||||||||||
| 91090 | Out of the Deeps | John Wyndham | Wyndham, John | ="034527217X" | ="9780345272171" | 0 | 3.77 | Del Rey | Mass Market Paperback | 182 | 1977 | 1953 | 2020/01/12 | 2020/01/04 | owned | owned (#316) | read | 1 | 0 | |||||||||||
| 34943643 | Agency (Jackpot #2) | William Gibson | Gibson, William | ="" | ="" | 0 | 3.83 | Berkley | Kindle Edition | 413 | 2020 | 2020 | 2020/01/25 | 2020/01/23 | owned | owned (#315) | read | 1 | 0 | |||||||||||
| 228204 | Demon Seed | Dean Koontz | Koontz, Dean | ="0425158594" | ="9780425158593" | 3 | 3.43 | Berkley | Mass Market Paperback | 301 | 1997 | 1973 | 2020/02/01 | 2020/01/14 | owned | owned (#314) | read | A striking & difficult portrayal of toxic masculinity in the first person. It is sometimes unclear whether the cringiness is intentional. | 1 | 0 | ||||||||||
| 34082142 | Shirley Jackson: A Rather Haunted Life | Ruth Franklin | Franklin, Ruth | ="1631493418" | ="9781631493416" | 0 | 3.97 | Liveright | Paperback | 624 | 2017 | 2016 | 2020/02/09 | 2020/02/01 | owned | owned (#313) | read | 1 | 0 | |||||||||||
| 26883558 | The Ballad of Black Tom | Victor LaValle | LaValle, Victor | ="0765387867" | ="9780765387868" | 0 | 3.90 | Tor.com | Paperback | 149 | 2016 | 2016 | 2020/02/11 | 2020/02/09 | owned | owned (#312) | read | 1 | 0 | |||||||||||
| 6763725 | Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative? | Mark Fisher | Fisher, Mark | ="1846943175" | ="9781846943171" | 4 | 4.22 | Zero Books | Paperback | 81 | 2009 | 2009 | 2020/02/15 | 2020/02/15 | owned | owned (#311) | read | 1 | 0 | |||||||||||
| 18423 | The Left Hand of Darkness (Hainish Cycle, #4) | Ursula K. Le Guin | Guin, Ursula K. Le | ="" | ="" | 0 | 4.08 | Ace | Paperback | 304 | 2000 | 1969 | 2020/02/26 | 2020/02/12 | owned | owned (#310) | read | 1 | 0 | |||||||||||
| 2170039 | Nightmare Express | Isidore Haiblum | Haiblum, Isidore | ="0449142043" | ="9780449142042" | 3 | 3.44 | Fawcett | Mass Market Paperback | 284 | 1979 | 1979 | 2020/03/30 | 2020/03/04 | owned | owned (#309) | read | A very strange, obscure, pulp sf-horror book from the 70s with a great cover. It reminds me a bit of The Illuminatus! Trilogy in that it switches POV characters constantly, giving each POV character a unique writing style associated with a specific genre, and uses unexpected POV shifts as a tension-building technique. Ultimately, it’s a series of interesting SFnal ideas & wonderfully evocative nightmare imagery loosely tied together with an uninteresting & fairly predictable plot, so I can’t completely recommend it. | 1 | 0 | ||||||||||
| 33670466 | Paperbacks from Hell: The Twisted History of '70s and '80s Horror Fiction | Grady Hendrix | Hendrix, Grady | Will Errickson | ="1594749817" | ="9781594749810" | 4 | 4.34 | Quirk Books Inc. | Paperback | 254 | 2017 | 2017 | 2020/03/14 | 2020/03/11 | owned | owned (#308) | read | I’d highly recommend this book to anybody with a passing interest in the 80s horror paperback market. It’s breezy and sometimes laugh-out-loud funny, and it demonstrates a lot of deep research into the subject matter. It also has glossy high-resolution reproductions of a lot of covers, along with little bios of cover artists (who generally aren’t even credited, and are therefore basically unknown). Off the back of the popularity of this book, Hendrix has managed to spearhead a campaign to get new printings of some of the stuff covered, with introductions & remastered cover art. Marketing for genre fiction has gotten a major case of literary fiction envy lately, which (aside from a couple inspired choices, like VanderMeer’s Annihilation series’ botanical theme) has led to dull, uninteresting cover art that does nothing to distinguish science fiction & horror books from their more mundane brethren, so it’s great to see a little bit of the old magic coming back. The only downside is that Hendrix's breezy comedy sometimes got grating -- but this is probably because I sat down and read most of it in a single sitting. It's really a coffee-table book, intended to be dipped into periodically, and had I read it that way I would have appreciated it a lot more. |
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| 43763 | Interview with the Vampire (The Vampire Chronicles, #1) | Anne Rice | Rice, Anne | ="0345476875" | ="9780345476876" | 4 | 4.00 | Ballantine Books | Paperback | 342 | 2004 | 1976 | 2020/03/10 | 2020/02/27 | owned | owned (#307) | read | Substantially better than its reputation. While this is clearly Rice's first book (as evident from the clunky integration of the frame story and a handful of awkward points), her facility with language makes it an engrossing read all by itself. What that language reveals is a deeply strange, warped mental landscape: lush sensuality meets twisted psychosexuality in a gothic mode. It's easy to take this book as a picture of the inner life of a lapsed catholic, and that take might well be true, but there's a lot more going on & the plot introduces complications that one would not necessarily associate with that description. | 1 | 0 | ||||||||||
| 32145 | Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers | Mary Roach | Roach, Mary | ="0393324826" | ="9780393324822" | 0 | 4.06 | W. W. Norton Company | Paperback | 303 | 2004 | 2003 | 2020/04/05 | 2020/03/30 | owned | owned (#306) | read | 1 | 0 | |||||||||||
| 7673127 | Night of Delusions | Keith Laumer | Laumer, Keith | ="" | ="" | 3 | 3.76 | Berkley | Paperback | 175 | 1972 | 1972 | 2020/04/17 | 2020/04/07 | owned | owned (#305) | read | Breezy and imaginative. Structurally, very much like a PKD novel, though Laumer is a better stylist. | 1 | 0 | ||||||||||
| 19581 | Ghost Story | Peter Straub | Straub, Peter | ="0671685635" | ="9780671685638" | 0 | 3.95 | Pocket Books / Simon & Schuster, Inc. | Paperback | 567 | 1989 | 1979 | 2020/05/09 | 2020/04/18 | owned | owned (#304) | read | 1 | 0 | |||||||||||
| 82333 | The Satanic Bible | Anton Szandor LaVey | LaVey, Anton Szandor | Peter H. Gilmore | ="0380015390" | ="9780380015399" | 0 | 3.38 | Avon | Paperback | 272 | 2005 | 1969 | 2020/05/20 | 2020/05/15 | owned | owned (#303) | read | 1 | 0 | ||||||||||
| 40887927 | The Final Scream | Adrian Roe | Roe, Adrian | ="" | ="" | 0 | 3.00 | PublishNation | Kindle Edition | 303 | 2018 | 2020/05/21 | 2020/05/17 | read | 1 | 0 | ||||||||||||||
| 12331479 | The Future is Japanese: Science Fiction Futures and Brand New Fantasies from and about Japan | Masumi Washington | Washington, Masumi | Nick Mamatas, Ken Liu, Felicity Savage, David Moles, Project Itoh, Rachel Swirsky, Toh EnJoe, Pat Cadigan, Issui Ogawa, Catherynne M. Valente, Ekaterina Sedia, Hideyuki Kikuchi, Bruce Sterling, Hirotaka Tobi | ="1421542234" | ="9781421542232" | 0 | 3.85 | Haikasoru | Paperback | 365 | 2012 | 2012 | 2020/05/17 | 2019/11/03 | read | 1 | 0 | ||||||||||||
| 36086 | The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic—and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World | Steven Johnson | Johnson, Steven | ="1594489254" | ="9781594489259" | 0 | 3.90 | Riverhead Books | Hardcover | 299 | 2006 | 2006 | 2020/04/18 | to-read | to-read (#162) | to-read | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||||
| 416318 | The Ego and Its Own | Max Stirner | Stirner, Max | David Leopold | ="0521450160" | ="9780521450164" | 0 | 4.09 | Cambridge University Press | Hardcover | 432 | 1995 | 1844 | 2020/04/18 | to-read | to-read (#161) | to-read | 0 | 0 | |||||||||||
| 17745 | Envisioning Information | Edward R. Tufte | Tufte, Edward R. | ="0961392118" | ="9780961392116" | 0 | 4.23 | Graphics Press | Unknown Binding | 126 | 1992 | 1990 | 2020/04/01 | to-read | to-read (#160) | to-read | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||||
| 29006193 | Babbling Corpse: Vaporwave and the Commodification of Ghosts | Grafton Tanner | Tanner, Grafton | ="1782797599" | ="9781782797593" | 0 | 3.89 | Zero Books | Paperback | 104 | 2016 | 2016 | 2020/04/01 | to-read | to-read (#159) | to-read | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||||
| 34858587 | Kill All Normies: Online Culture Wars from 4chan and Tumblr to Trump and the Alt-Right | Angela Nagle | Nagle, Angela | ="1785355449" | ="9781785355448" | 0 | 3.49 | Zero Books | ebook | 136 | 2017 | 2017 | 2020/04/01 | to-read | to-read (#158) | to-read | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||||
| 25387807 | Inventing the Future: Postcapitalism and a World Without Work | Nick Srnicek | Srnicek, Nick | Alex Williams | ="1784780960" | ="9781784780968" | 0 | 4.02 | Verso | Paperback | 245 | 2015 | 2015 | 2020/04/01 | to-read | to-read (#157) | to-read | 0 | 0 | |||||||||||
| 38488692 | Piggyback to the End of the World | David Thurlow | Thurlow, David | ="" | ="" | 0 | 4.56 | Kindle Edition | 314 | 2018 | 2020/04/01 | to-read | to-read (#156) | to-read | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||||||
| 36671600 | Agent of the Fae (Dark Fae FBI, #4) | C.N. Crawford | Crawford, C.N. | Alex Rivers | ="" | ="" | 0 | 4.33 | Kindle Edition | 303 | 2017 | 2017 | 2020/04/01 | to-read | to-read (#155) | to-read | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||||
| 36074265 | Agent of Darkness (Dark Fae FBI, #3) | C.N. Crawford | Crawford, C.N. | Alex Rivers | ="" | ="" | 0 | 4.30 | Kindle Edition | 345 | 2017 | 2017 | 2020/04/01 | to-read | to-read (#154) | to-read | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||||
| 35133640 | Agent of Chaos (Dark Fae FBI, #2) | C.N. Crawford | Crawford, C.N. | Alex Rivers | ="" | ="" | 0 | 4.14 | Kindle Edition | 322 | 2017 | 2017 | 2020/04/01 | to-read | to-read (#153) | to-read | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||||
| 34833885 | Agent of Enchantment (Dark Fae FBI, #1) | C.N. Crawford | Crawford, C.N. | Alex Rivers | ="" | ="" | 0 | 4.02 | Kindle Edition | 324 | 2017 | 2017 | 2020/04/01 | to-read | to-read (#152) | to-read | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||||
| 30321627 | Worlds Between My Teeth | Tim Meyer | Meyer, Tim | ="" | ="" | 0 | 4.03 | Amazon Media | Kindle Edition | 218 | 2016 | 2016 | 2020/04/01 | to-read | to-read (#151) | to-read | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||||
| 45731216 | Things Not Made | Michael Sellars | Sellars, Michael | ="" | ="" | 0 | 4.11 | Amazon Media EU S.à r.l. | Paperback | 95 | 2019 | 2020/04/01 | to-read | to-read (#150) | to-read | 0 | 0 | |||||||||||||
| 51474929 | Nevertheless, She Persisted: Flash Fiction Project | Diana M. Pho | Pho, Diana M. | Charlie Jane Anders, Brooke Bolander, Amal El-Mohtar, Maria Dahvana Headley, Kameron Hurley, Seanan McGuire, Nisi Shawl, Catherynne M. Valente, Carrie Vaughn, Jo Walton, Alyssa Wong | ="" | ="" | 0 | 3.64 | Tor Books | Kindle Edition | 47 | 2020 | 2020 | 2020/04/01 | to-read | to-read (#149) | to-read | 0 | 0 | |||||||||||
| 49247257 | Dead Lies Dreaming (The Laundry Files, #10) | Charles Stross | Stross, Charles | ="1250267021" | ="9781250267023" | 0 | 4.19 | Tordotcom | Hardcover | 384 | 2020 | 2020 | 2020/04/01 | to-read | to-read (#148) | to-read | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||||
| 1556998 | Monsters & Vampires | Alan G. Frank | Frank, Alan G. | ="0706405250" | ="9780706405255" | 0 | 3.92 | Octopus Bks. | Hardcover | 1976 | 1976 | 2020/04/01 | to-read | to-read (#147) | to-read | 0 | 0 | |||||||||||||
| 49816669 | Some of the Best from Tor.com, 2019 edition | Elizabeth Bear | Bear, Elizabeth | Siobhan Carroll, John Chu, Greg Egan, Kathleen Ann Goonan, S.L. Huang, Carole Johnstone, K.J. Kabza, Erinn L. Kemper, Mary Robinette Kowal, Rich Larson, M. Evan MacGriogair, Seanan McGuire, Lis Mitchell, Mimi Mondal, Annalee Newitz, Silvia Park, Laurie Penny, Brenda Peynado, Christopher Rowe, Rivers Solomon, Karin Tidbeck, J.Y. Yang, E. Lily Yu | ="" | ="" | 0 | 3.63 | Tor Books | Kindle Edition | 768 | 2020 | 2020 | 2020/04/01 | to-read | to-read (#146) | to-read | 0 | 0 | |||||||||||
| 11743674 | Annabel Scheme | Robin Sloan | Sloan, Robin | ="" | ="" | 0 | 3.82 | robinsloan.com | Kindle Edition | 111 | 2010 | 2009 | 2020/04/01 | to-read | to-read (#145) | to-read | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||||
| 39087947 | K-Punk: The Collected Writings of Mark Fisher | Mark Fisher | Fisher, Mark | Darren Ambrose, Simon Reynolds | ="191224828X" | ="9781912248285" | 0 | 4.40 | Repeater | Paperback | 817 | 2018 | 2020/04/01 | to-read | to-read (#144) | to-read | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||||
| 18139978 | London Falling (Shadow Police, #1) | Paul Cornell | Cornell, Paul | ="0765368102" | ="9780765368102" | 0 | 3.76 | Tor Fantasy | Paperback | 432 | 2014 | 2012 | 2020/04/01 | to-read | to-read (#143) | to-read | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||||
| 33861487 | Terminal: A Collection Of Horror Novellas | Adam M. Booth | Booth, Adam M. | ="" | ="" | 0 | 2.80 | Kindle Edition | 451 | 2016 | 2020/04/01 | to-read | to-read (#142) | to-read | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||||||
| 118316 | A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia | Gilles Deleuze | Deleuze, Gilles | Félix Guattari, Brian Massumi | ="0816614024" | ="9780816614028" | 0 | 4.30 | University of Minnesota Press | Paperback | 632 | 1987 | 1987 | 2020/04/01 | to-read | to-read (#141) | to-read | 0 | 0 | |||||||||||
| 51777543 | Data Feminism | Catherine D’Ignazio | D’Ignazio, Catherine | Lauren F. Klein | ="0262044005" | ="9780262044004" | 0 | 4.46 | MIT Press | Hardcover | 328 | 2020 | 2020 | 2020/02/01 | to-read | to-read (#136) | to-read | 0 | 0 | |||||||||||
| 18804301 | Collected Fiction | H.P. Lovecraft | Lovecraft, H.P. | ="" | ="" | 0 | 4.24 | Fan Published | ebook | 1745 | 2013 | 2013 | 2015/11/21 | currently-reading, owned | currently-reading (#3), owned (#60) | currently-reading | 1 | 0 | ||||||||||||
| 122049 | Ishtar Rising: Why the Goddess Went to Hell and What to Expect Now That She's Returning | Robert Anton Wilson | Wilson, Robert Anton | ="1561841099" | ="9781561841097" | 0 | 3.89 | New Falcon Publications | Paperback | 208 | 1997 | 1974 | 2020/02/15 | to-read | to-read (#140) | to-read | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||||
| 826846 | The Day of the Triffids | John Wyndham | Wyndham, John | Barry Langford | ="0141185414" | ="9780141185415" | 0 | 4.02 | Penguin Modern Classics | Paperback | 233 | 2001 | 1951 | 2020/02/07 | to-read | to-read (#139) | to-read | 0 | 0 | |||||||||||
| 23136419 | A History of Life-Extensionism in the Twentieth Century | Ilia Stambler | Stambler, Ilia | ="1500818577" | ="9781500818579" | 0 | 3.71 | Createspace Independent Publishing Platform | Paperback | 542 | 2014 | 2014 | 2020/02/01 | to-read | to-read (#138) | to-read | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||||
| 18912 | The Sublime Object of Ideology | Slavoj Žižek | Žižek, Slavoj | Ernesto Laclau | ="0860919714" | ="9780860919711" | 0 | 4.07 | Verso | Paperback | 256 | 1989 | 1989 | 2020/02/01 | to-read | to-read (#137) | to-read | 0 | 0 | |||||||||||
| 2655505 | Computation and Human Experience | Philip E. Agre | Agre, Philip E. | ="0521386039" | ="9780521386036" | 0 | 4.07 | Cambridge University Press | paperback | 389 | 1997 | 1997 | 2020/02/01 | to-read | to-read (#135) | to-read | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||||
| 50770913 | William Blake Now: Why He Matters More Than Ever | John Higgs | Higgs, John | J.M.R. Higgs | ="1474614337" | ="9781474614337" | 0 | 4.16 | Wiedenfeld & Nicholson | Paperback | 79 | 2019 | 2020 | 2019/09/15 | to-read | to-read (#128) | to-read | 0 | 0 | |||||||||||
| 6033620 | The Architecture of Symbolic Computers | Peter M. Kogge | Kogge, Peter M. | ="0070355967" | ="9780070355965" | 0 | 4.50 | McGraw-Hill Companies | Hardcover | 739 | 1990 | 1990 | 2019/12/30 | currently-reading | currently-reading (#31) | currently-reading | 1 | 0 | ||||||||||||
| 98875 | The Complete Guide to Mysterious Beings | John A. Keel | Keel, John A. | ="0765345862" | ="9780765345868" | 4 | 4.02 | Tor Books | Paperback | 352 | 2002 | 1970 | 2019/12/29 | 2019/12/05 | read | Keel does his best Fort impression, which is as entertaining as it is illuminating. | 1 | 0 | ||||||||||||
| 6405096 | Otaku: Japan's Database Animals | Hiroki Azuma | Azuma, Hiroki | Jonathan E. Abel, Shion Kono | ="0816653526" | ="9780816653522" | 0 | 3.79 | Univ Of Minnesota Press | Paperback | 200 | 2009 | 2001 | 2019/12/29 | 2019/12/27 | read | 1 | 0 | ||||||||||||
| 319962 | Bad Girls of Japan | Laura Miller | Miller, Laura | Jan Bardsley | ="1403969477" | ="9781403969477" | 0 | 3.86 | Palgrave Macmillan | Paperback | 240 | 2005 | 2005 | 2019/12/22 | 2019/03/07 | read | 1 | 0 | ||||||||||||
| 18403081 | Equoid (Laundry Files, #2.9) | Charles Stross | Stross, Charles | ="1466855479" | ="9781466855472" | 5 | 3.95 | Tor Books | ebook | 65 | 2013 | 2013 | 2015/11/21 | owned | owned (#42) | read | 1 | 0 | ||||||||||||
| 1285028 | Resisting The Virtual Life: The Culture And Politics Of Information | J. Brook | Brook, J. | ="0872862992" | ="9780872862999" | 4 | 3.65 | City Lights Books | Paperback | 278 | 1995 | 1995 | 2019/04/23 | 2019/04/14 | owned | owned (#300) | read | 1 | 0 | |||||||||||
| 17867988 | Memory Machines: The Evolution of Hypertext | Belinda Barnet | Barnet, Belinda | ="0857280600" | ="9780857280602" | 4 | 4.29 | Anthem Press | Hardcover | 192 | 2013 | 2013 | 2019/12/04 | 2019/09/15 | read | 1 | 0 | |||||||||||||
| 25048591 | Four Works On Llull: On the Compendious Architecture, Lullian Combinatoric Lamps, Scrutinizing the Subjects (Collected Works of Giordano Bruno Book 3) | Giordano Bruno | Bruno, Giordano | Scott Gosnell | ="" | ="" | 0 | 4.50 | Huginn, Muninn & Co. | Kindle Edition | 183 | 2015 | 2015 | 2019/11/07 | currently-reading | currently-reading (#30) | currently-reading | 1 | 0 | |||||||||||
| 45141663 | Philosophy of Computer Science | William J. Rapaport | Rapaport, William J. | ="" | ="" | 0 | 4.00 | ebook | 897 | 2019/09/10 | to-read | to-read (#134) | to-read | 0 | 0 | |||||||||||||||
| 13365811 | Augmenting Human Intellect | Douglas C. Engelbart | Engelbart, Douglas C. | ="" | ="" | 0 | 4.00 | Stanford Research Institute | ebook | 144 | 1962 | 1962 | 2019/09/10 | to-read | to-read (#133) | to-read | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||||
| 20665577 | The New Annotated H.P. Lovecraft | H.P. Lovecraft | Lovecraft, H.P. | Leslie S. Klinger, Victor LaValle | ="0871404532" | ="9780871404534" | 0 | 4.41 | Liveright Publishing Corp./W.W. Norton | Hardcover | 852 | 2014 | 2014 | 2016/07/05 | owned, currently-reading | owned (#202), currently-reading (#27) | currently-reading | 1 | 0 | |||||||||||
| 25404080 | How to Talk about Videogames | Ian Bogost | Bogost, Ian | ="0816699127" | ="9780816699124" | 0 | 3.68 | Univ Of Minnesota Press | Paperback | 208 | 2015 | 2015 | 2019/10/24 | 2019/09/04 | read | 1 | 0 | |||||||||||||
| 43565344 | Lurking: How a Person Became a User | Joanne McNeil | McNeil, Joanne | ="0374194335" | ="9780374194338" | 0 | 3.83 | MCD | Hardcover | 304 | 2020 | 2020 | 2019/10/13 | to-read | to-read (#132) | to-read | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||||
| 43837106 | The Future Starts Here: Adventures in the Twenty-First Century | John Higgs | Higgs, John | J.M.R. Higgs | ="1474609392" | ="9781474609395" | 0 | 4.36 | W&N | Hardcover | 352 | 2019 | 2019/10/13 | to-read | to-read (#131) | to-read | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||||
| 34466958 | Bullshit Jobs: A Theory | David Graeber | Graeber, David | ="150114331X" | ="9781501143311" | 0 | 3.98 | Simon Schuster | Hardcover | 335 | 2018 | 2018 | 2019/10/13 | to-read | to-read (#130) | to-read | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||||
| 45883646 | Watchmen (2019 Edition) | Alan Moore | Moore, Alan | Dave Gibbons | ="1779501129" | ="9781779501127" | 0 | 4.36 | DC Comics | Paperback | 416 | 2019 | 1987 | 2019/10/13 | to-read | to-read (#129) | to-read | 0 | 0 | |||||||||||
| 16599 | Vampire Hunter D (Vampire Hunter D, #1) | Hideyuki Kikuchi | Kikuchi, Hideyuki | Yoshitaka Amano | ="1595820124" | ="9781595820129" | 0 | 3.99 | DMP / Dark Horse | Paperback | 238 | 1983 | 2019/10/09 | 2019/10/06 | read | 1 | 0 | |||||||||||||
| 415951 | Psilocybin: Magic Mushroom Grower's Guide: A Handbook for Psilocybin Enthusiasts | O.T. Oss | Oss, O.T. | Dennis J. McKenna, Terence McKenna, O.N. Oeric | ="0932551068" | ="9780932551061" | 0 | 4.07 | Quick American Archives | Paperback | 81 | 1993 | 1976 | 2019/10/04 | 2019/09/15 | read | 1 | 0 | ||||||||||||
| 902971 | Humpty Dumpty in Oakland | Philip K. Dick | Dick, Philip K. | ="0765316900" | ="9780765316905" | 0 | 3.31 | Tor Books | Hardcover | 252 | 2007 | 1986 | 2019/08/25 | 2019/08/17 | read | 1 | 0 | |||||||||||||
| 42771901 | How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy | Jenny Odell | Odell, Jenny | ="1612197493" | ="9781612197494" | 0 | 3.82 | Melville House | Hardcover | 225 | 2019 | 2019 | 2019/08/17 | to-read | to-read (#127) | to-read | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||||
| 44319131 | MASKS: Bowie Artists of Artifice | James Curcio | Curcio, James | ="1789381088" | ="9781789381085" | 0 | 4.50 | Intellect Ltd | Paperback | 320 | 2020 | 2019/08/17 | to-read | to-read (#126) | to-read | 0 | 0 | |||||||||||||
| 18869987 | Don't Look Now and Other Stories | Daphne du Maurier | Maurier, Daphne du | Дафна дю Морье | ="0316253642" | ="9780316253642" | 0 | 3.82 | Little, Brown and Company | ebook | 272 | 2013 | 1940 | 2019/08/04 | read | 1 | 0 | |||||||||||||
| 22226050 | The Thing: A Phenomenology of Horror | Dylan Trigg | Trigg, Dylan | ="1782790772" | ="9781782790778" | 0 | 3.92 | Zero Books | Paperback | 156 | 2014 | 2014 | 2019/07/31 | to-read | to-read (#125) | to-read | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||||
| 1645980 | Strategic Computing: Darpa and the Quest for Machine Intelligence, 1983-1993 | Alex Roland | Roland, Alex | ="0262182262" | ="9780262182263" | 0 | 3.08 | MIT Press | Hardcover | 456 | 2002 | 2002 | 2019/06/20 | to-read | to-read (#124) | to-read | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||||
| 38276 | The Media Lab: Inventing the Future at M.I.T. | Stewart Brand | Brand, Stewart | ="0140097015" | ="9780140097016" | 0 | 4.06 | Penguin Books | paper | 304 | 1988 | 1987 | 2019/06/20 | to-read | to-read (#123) | to-read | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||||
| 24611567 | Songs of a Dead Dreamer and Grimscribe | Thomas Ligotti | Ligotti, Thomas | Jeff VanderMeer | ="0143107763" | ="9780143107767" | 0 | 4.01 | Penguin Books | Paperback | 448 | 2016 | 2015 | 2019/05/20 | to-read | to-read (#122) | to-read | 0 | 0 | |||||||||||
| 40121978 | Infinite Detail | Tim Maughan | Maughan, Tim | ="0374175411" | ="9780374175412" | 0 | 3.76 | MCD X Fsg Originals | Paperback | 384 | 2019 | 2019 | 2019/05/20 | to-read | to-read (#121) | to-read | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||||
| 102462 | Hellboy, Vol. 5: Conqueror Worm | Mike Mignola | Mignola, Mike | ="1593070926" | ="9781593070922" | 0 | 4.35 | Dark Horse Books | Paperback | 144 | 2004 | 2002 | 2019/05/12 | read | 1 | 0 | ||||||||||||||
| 102460 | Hellboy, Vol. 4: The Right Hand of Doom | Mike Mignola | Mignola, Mike | ="1593070934" | ="9781593070939" | 0 | 4.33 | Dark Horse Books | Paperback | 144 | 2004 | 2000 | 2019/05/12 | read | 1 | 0 | ||||||||||||||
| 36557775 | Writing as a Team Sport (Million Dollar Writing Series) | Kevin J. Anderson | Anderson, Kevin J. | ="" | ="" | 0 | 3.80 | ebook | 2017 | 2017 | 2019/05/09 | read | 1 | 0 | ||||||||||||||||
| 102461 | Hellboy, Vol. 3: The Chained Coffin and Others | Mike Mignola | Mignola, Mike | ="1593070918" | ="9781593070915" | 0 | 4.22 | Dark Horse | Paperback | 176 | 2004 | 1998 | 2019/05/05 | read | 1 | 0 | ||||||||||||||
| 102459 | Hellboy, Vol. 2: Wake the Devil | Mike Mignola | Mignola, Mike | ="1593070950" | ="9781593070953" | 0 | 4.20 | Dark Horse Books | Paperback | 144 | 2004 | 1997 | 2019/05/05 | read | 1 | 0 | ||||||||||||||
| 27270741 | Worldbuilding: From Small Towns to Entire Universes (The Million Dollar Writing Series) | Kevin J. Anderson | Anderson, Kevin J. | ="" | ="" | 0 | 3.66 | WordFire Press | Kindle Edition | 101 | 2015 | 2019/05/05 | read | 1 | 0 | |||||||||||||||
| 18367638 | Pioneers of Soviet Computing | Boris Nikolaevich Malinovsky | Malinovsky, Boris Nikolaevich | Anne Fitzpatrick, Emmanuel Aronie, Kate Maldonado | ="" | ="" | 0 | 3.00 | SIGCIS (Special Interest Group: Computers, Information, Society) | ebook | 201 | 2010 | 2010 | 2019/05/05 | to-read | to-read (#120) | to-read | 0 | 0 | |||||||||||
| 23000897 | Million Dollar Productivity (The Million Dollar Writing Series) | Kevin J. Anderson | Anderson, Kevin J. | ="" | ="" | 2 | 4.03 | WordFire Press | Kindle Edition | 45 | 2014 | 2014 | 2019/04/24 | read | Repetitive. Consists almost entirely of advice already familiar to the target audience (from other, better, more popular books). On the plus side, it doesn't contain bad advice, and it's very short: I don't regret reading it; I'm just glad I didn't pay full price. | 1 | 0 | |||||||||||||
| 119073 | The Name of the Rose | Umberto Eco | Eco, Umberto | William Weaver | ="0156001314" | ="9780156001311" | 5 | 4.12 | Harvest Books | Paperback | 536 | 1994 | 1980 | 2019/04/24 | owned | owned (#301) | read | Fantastic: encyclopedic and epic, and full of the kind of postmodern sensibility only a medievalist can emit. | 1 | 0 | ||||||||||
| 38244853 | Harrow County, Vol. 8: Done Come Back | Cullen Bunn | Bunn, Cullen | Tyler Crook | ="1506706630" | ="9781506706634" | 0 | 4.21 | Dark Horse Books | Paperback | 112 | 2018 | 2018 | 2019/04/28 | read | 1 | 0 | |||||||||||||
| 23268115 | Million Dollar Professionalism for the Writer | Kevin J. Anderson | Anderson, Kevin J. | Rebecca Moesta | ="" | ="9781614752448" | 0 | 3.92 | WordFire Press | ebook | 124 | 2014 | 2014 | 2019/04/30 | read | 1 | 0 | |||||||||||||
| 33547 | Hell House | Richard Matheson | Matheson, Richard | ="0727860992" | ="9780727860996" | 0 | 3.78 | Severn House Publishers | Hardcover | 301 | 2004 | 1971 | 2019/04/30 | owned | owned (#302) | read | 1 | 0 | ||||||||||||
| 35743742 | Harrow County, Vol. 7: Dark Times A'Coming | Cullen Bunn | Bunn, Cullen | Tyler Crook | ="1506703976" | ="9781506703978" | 0 | 4.29 | Dark Horse Books | Paperback | 136 | 2018 | 2018 | 2019/04/28 | read | 1 | 0 | |||||||||||||
| 34181435 | Harrow County, Vol. 6: Hedge Magic | Cullen Bunn | Bunn, Cullen | Tyler Crook | ="1506702082" | ="9781506702087" | 0 | 4.07 | Dark Horse Books | Paperback | 120 | 2017 | 2017 | 2019/04/28 | read | 1 | 0 | |||||||||||||
| 30206744 | Harrow County, Vol. 4: Family Tree | Cullen Bunn | Bunn, Cullen | Tyler Crook, Keith Wood | ="1506701418" | ="9781506701417" | 0 | 4.12 | Dark Horse Books | Paperback | 136 | 2017 | 2017 | 2019/04/28 | read | 1 | 0 | |||||||||||||
| 29236398 | Harrow County, Vol. 3: Snake Doctor | Cullen Bunn | Bunn, Cullen | Tyler Crook, Hannah Christenson, Carla Speed McNeil | ="1506700713" | ="9781506700717" | 0 | 3.83 | Dark Horse Comics | Paperback | 136 | 2016 | 2016 | 2019/04/28 | read | 1 | 0 | |||||||||||||
| 26025656 | Harrow County, Vol. 2: Twice Told | Cullen Bunn | Bunn, Cullen | Tyler Crook | ="1616559004" | ="9781616559007" | 0 | 4.05 | Dark Horse Comics | Paperback | 120 | 2016 | 2016 | 2019/04/28 | read | 1 | 0 | |||||||||||||
| 32141204 | Harrow County, Vol. 5: Abandoned | Cullen Bunn | Bunn, Cullen | Tyler Crook, Carla Speed McNeil, Jenn Manley Lee | ="1506701906" | ="9781506701905" | 0 | 4.15 | Dark Horse Books | Paperback | 136 | 2017 | 2017 | 2019/04/28 | read | 1 | 0 | |||||||||||||
| 25486101 | Harrow County, Vol. 1: Countless Haints | Cullen Bunn | Bunn, Cullen | Tyler Crook | ="161655780X" | ="9781616557805" | 0 | 4.05 | Dark Horse Comics | Paperback | 144 | 2015 | 2015 | 2019/04/28 | read | 1 | 0 | |||||||||||||
| 976535 | The Devil's Party: A History of Charlatan Messiahs | Colin Wilson | Wilson, Colin | ="0753505029" | ="9780753505021" | 0 | 3.70 | Virgin Books | Paperback | 2001 | 2000 | 2019/04/25 | to-read | to-read (#119) | to-read | 0 | 0 | |||||||||||||
| 2667232 | World Famous Cults and Fanatics | Colin Wilson | Wilson, Colin | Damon Wilson | ="1858131006" | ="9781858131009" | 0 | 3.01 | 2004 | 2019/04/25 | to-read | to-read (#118) | to-read | 0 | 0 | |||||||||||||||
| 715733 | Rudolf Steiner: The Man and His Vision | Colin Wilson | Wilson, Colin | ="1904658261" | ="9781904658269" | 0 | 3.78 | AEON Books | Paperback | 176 | 2005 | 1987 | 2019/04/25 | to-read | to-read (#117) | to-read | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||||
| 530904 | The Strange Life of P.D. Ouspensky | Colin Wilson | Wilson, Colin | ="1904658253" | ="9781904658252" | 0 | 3.65 | AEON Books | Paperback | 144 | 2005 | 1993 | 2019/04/25 | to-read | to-read (#116) | to-read | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||||
| 36029 | Rogue Messiahs: Tales of Self-Proclaimed Saviors | Colin Wilson | Wilson, Colin | ="1571741755" | ="9781571741752" | 0 | 3.59 | Hampton Roads Publishing Company | Hardcover | 274 | 2000 | 2000 | 2019/04/25 | to-read | to-read (#115) | to-read | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||||
| 455883 | G.I. Gurdjieff: The War Against Sleep | Colin Wilson | Wilson, Colin | ="1904658296" | ="9781904658290" | 0 | 3.78 | AEON Books | Paperback | 128 | 2005 | 1980 | 2019/04/25 | to-read | to-read (#114) | to-read | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||||
| 869314 | The Space Vampires | Colin Wilson | Wilson, Colin | ="0671809164" | ="9780671809164" | 0 | 3.35 | Simon & Schuster | Mass Market Paperback | 220 | 1977 | 1976 | 2019/04/25 | to-read | to-read (#113) | to-read | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||||
| 340583 | A Criminal History of Mankind | Colin Wilson | Wilson, Colin | ="1845600029" | ="9781845600020" | 0 | 3.89 | Mercury Books | Hardcover | 702 | 2006 | 2006 | 2019/04/25 | to-read | to-read (#112) | to-read | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||||
| 25986983 | Dawn (Legend of the Galactic Heroes #1) | Yoshiki Tanaka | Tanaka, Yoshiki | Daniel Huddleston, Tyran Grillo, Matt Treyvaud | ="1421584948" | ="9781421584942" | 0 | 4.04 | Haikasoru | Paperback | 292 | 2016 | 1982 | 2019/04/21 | 2019/03/07 | read | 1 | 0 | ||||||||||||
| 141560 | Screenplay: The Foundations of Screenwriting | Syd Field | Field, Syd | ="0385339038" | ="9780385339032" | 0 | 3.96 | Delta | Paperback | 309 | 2005 | 1979 | 2019/04/11 | owned | owned (#299) | read | 1 | 0 | ||||||||||||
| 3253334 | Dead Men Scare Me Stupid | John Swartzwelder | Swartzwelder, John | ="0975579983" | ="9780975579985" | 0 | 4.16 | Kennydale Books | Paperback | 146 | 2008 | 2008 | 2019/03/29 | owned | owned (#298) | read | 1 | 0 | ||||||||||||
| 41824495 | Fall; or, Dodge in Hell | Neal Stephenson | Stephenson, Neal | ="006245871X" | ="9780062458711" | 0 | 3.56 | William Morrow | Hardcover | 883 | 2019 | 2019 | 2019/03/14 | to-read | to-read (#111) | to-read | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||||
| 28251250 | White Noise | Don DeLillo | DeLillo, Don | ="0143129554" | ="9780143129554" | 4 | 3.87 | Penguin Classics | Paperback | 320 | 2016 | 1985 | 2019/03/12 | 2019/03/07 | owned | owned (#278) | read | Surreal, darkly funny, and full of beautiful language. | 1 | 0 | ||||||||||
| 39014194 | Anime Impact: The Movies and Shows that Changed the World of Japanese Animation | Chris Stuckmann | Stuckmann, Chris | Ernest Cline, Alicia Malone | ="1633537323" | ="9781633537323" | 0 | 3.78 | Mango | Hardcover | 350 | 2018 | 2018 | 2019/03/07 | owned, currently-reading | owned (#286), currently-reading (#20) | currently-reading | 1 | 0 | |||||||||||
| 803201 | Writing for Interactive Media: The Complete Guide | Jon Samsel | Samsel, Jon | Darryl Wimberley | ="1581150059" | ="9781581150056" | 2 | 3.67 | Allworth Press | Hardcover | 244 | 1998 | 1998 | 2019/03/08 | 2019/03/07 | owned | owned (#279) | read | Aimed primarily at non-technical non-writers who want to create CD-ROM based FMV games (with lip service to other kinds of interactive media), this book was probably not particularly useful even in 1998. Despite citing hypertext & cybertext theory, the authors seem ignorant of common practices in interactive fiction and in VNs, and declare insoluble the problems that these forms had definitively solved by the early 90s. A large chunk of the book (especially concentrated in part II, which is essentially a mediocre screenwriting manual) is dedicated to the running theme that meaningful interactivity is impossible to square with a compelling narrative (with attempts to back this up by appeals to the supposed universality of three act structures, an argument built on dubious readings of structuralist semiotics). If you would like to write the kind of interactive narrative this book holds up as the only valid form, you're better off reading Save The Cat. The authors seem unable to go more than twenty pages without taking unnecessary and misinformed potshots at postmodernism. Stories used as examples have their plots misrepresented, leading to distracting factual errors, including real howlers like "Romeo was not in love with anyone at the beginning of the play". Less extreme but still puzzling, the authors use the nursery rhyme Jack and Jill as an example but do not realize (as most children do) that the 'crown' Jack breaks is the crown of his head -- i.e., that he broke his skull open -- not a piece of gilded headgear. These errors are accompanied by occasional but distracting typos that somehow made their way through editing. The book is not wholly without merit. The taxonomy of interactive story structures is incomplete but probably more complete than those available from other general audience literature at the time (though now it's better to just read Emily Short's blog post on the subject), and some of the interviews are interesting (even when the authors, when summarizing them, misrepresent the positions being stated). The survey of existing projects is of possible historical interest, being a record of late 90s Anglophone new media. The chapter on hypertext narrative is interesting, and those who like it should read Narrative Space. |
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| 776750 | The Bias of Communication | Harold A. Innis | Innis, Harold A. | ="0802068391" | ="9780802068392" | 0 | 4.05 | University of Toronto Press | Paperback | 304 | 1999 | 1964 | 2019/03/08 | to-read | to-read (#110) | to-read | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||||
| 630476 | Freedom Is a Two Edged Sword | Jack Whiteside Parsons | Parsons, Jack Whiteside | Hymenaeus Beta | ="1561841161" | ="9781561841165" | 0 | 4.37 | New Falcon Publications | Paperback | 96 | 1990 | 2019/03/08 | to-read | to-read (#109) | to-read | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||||
| 164515 | Orality and Literacy: The Technologizing of the Word | Walter J. Ong | Ong, Walter J. | ="0415281296" | ="9780415281294" | 0 | 4.09 | Routledge | Paperback | 216 | 2002 | 1982 | 2019/03/08 | to-read | to-read (#108) | to-read | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||||
| 34213943 | The Quotable Foucault | Michel Foucault | Foucault, Michel | Lars Blackmore | ="" | ="" | 0 | 4.67 | Jovian Press | Kindle Edition | 114 | 2017 | 2019/03/07 | owned | owned (#297) | read | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||||
| 3220423 | Star Slammers | Walter Simonson | Simonson, Walter | ="0939766213" | ="9780939766215" | 0 | 3.52 | Marvel Comics Group | Paperback | 64 | 1993 | 1983 | 2019/03/07 | owned | owned (#296) | read | 1 | 0 | ||||||||||||
| 27209460 | The Invisible Library (The Invisible Library, #1) | Genevieve Cogman | Cogman, Genevieve | ="1101988649" | ="9781101988640" | 0 | 3.72 | Roc | Paperback | 341 | 2016 | 2015 | 2019/03/07 | to-read, owned | to-read (#107), owned (#295) | to-read | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||||
| 1831736 | A History of Personal Workstations | Adele Goldberg | Goldberg, Adele | ="0201112590" | ="9780201112597" | 0 | 3.60 | Addison-Wesley Professional | Paperback | 560 | 1988 | 1988 | 2019/03/07 | to-read | to-read (#106) | to-read | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||||
| 35019996 | Agency | William Gibson | Gibson, William | ="110198693X" | ="9781101986936" | 0 | 3.83 | Berkley Books | Hardcover | 402 | 2020 | 2020 | 2019/03/07 | to-read | to-read (#105) | to-read | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||||
| 12206886 | Red Plenty | Francis Spufford | Spufford, Francis | ="1555976042" | ="9781555976040" | 0 | 4.08 | Graywolf Press | Paperback | 434 | 2012 | 2007 | 2019/03/07 | to-read, owned | to-read (#104), owned (#294) | to-read | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||||
| 28186015 | Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy | Cathy O'Neil | O'Neil, Cathy | ="0553418815" | ="9780553418811" | 0 | 3.87 | Crown | Hardcover | 259 | 2016 | 2016 | 2019/03/07 | to-read, owned | to-read (#103), owned (#293) | to-read | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||||
| 32919530 | A Mind at Play: How Claude Shannon Invented the Information Age | Jimmy Soni | Soni, Jimmy | Rob Goodman | ="1476766681" | ="9781476766683" | 0 | 4.16 | Simon & Schuster | Hardcover | 384 | 2017 | 2017 | 2019/03/07 | to-read, owned | to-read (#102), owned (#292) | to-read | 0 | 0 | |||||||||||
| 25666050 | Algorithms to Live By: The Computer Science of Human Decisions | Brian Christian | Christian, Brian | Tom Griffiths | ="1627790365" | ="9781627790369" | 0 | 4.15 | Henry Holt and Co. | Hardcover | 368 | 2016 | 2016 | 2019/03/07 | currently-reading, owned | currently-reading (#22), owned (#291) | currently-reading | 1 | 0 | |||||||||||
| 35834214 | Narrative Machines: Modern Myth, Revolution & Propaganda | James Curcio | Curcio, James | ="0692916458" | ="9780692916452" | 0 | 0.0 | Mythos Media | Paperback | 208 | 2017 | 2019/03/07 | currently-reading, owned | currently-reading (#21), owned (#290) | currently-reading | 1 | 0 | |||||||||||||
| 12267915 | The Art Of Memetics | Edward Wilson | Wilson, Edward | Wes Unruh, Ray Carney | ="1435771389" | ="9781435771383" | 0 | 4.00 | 2019/03/07 | owned | owned (#289) | read | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||||||||
| 1101290 | Dealers of Lightning: Xerox PARC and the Dawn of the Computer Age | Michael A. Hiltzik | Hiltzik, Michael A. | ="0887309895" | ="9780887309892" | 0 | 4.12 | Harper Business | Paperback | 480 | 2000 | 1999 | 2019/03/07 | owned, to-read | owned (#280), to-read (#101) | to-read | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||||
| 11882780 | Close to the Machine: Technophilia and Its Discontents | Ellen Ullman | Ullman, Ellen | ="1250002486" | ="9781250002488" | 0 | 3.83 | Picador USA | Paperback | 189 | 2012 | 1997 | 2019/03/07 | owned, to-read | owned (#281), to-read (#100) | to-read | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||||
| 344726 | The Humane Interface: New Directions for Designing Interactive Systems | Jef Raskin | Raskin, Jef | ="0201379376" | ="9780201379372" | 0 | 4.01 | Addison-Wesley Professional | Paperback | 256 | 2000 | 2000 | 2019/03/07 | owned, to-read | owned (#282), to-read (#99) | to-read | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||||
| 153954 | The Human Use of Human Beings: Cybernetics and Society | Norbert Wiener | Wiener, Norbert | ="0306803208" | ="9780306803208" | 0 | 4.01 | Da Capo Press | Paperback | 200 | 1988 | 1949 | 2019/03/07 | owned, to-read | owned (#284), to-read (#98) | to-read | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||||
| 34373861 | Writing An Interpreter In Go | Thorsten Ball | Ball, Thorsten | ="" | ="9783000558085" | 0 | 4.57 | Paperback | 260 | 2017 | 2019/03/07 | owned, to-read | owned (#288), to-read (#97) | to-read | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||||||
| 5216342 | The Anatomy of Story: 22 Steps to Becoming a Master Storyteller | John Truby | Truby, John | ="0865479933" | ="9780865479937" | 0 | 4.28 | Farrar, Straus and Giroux | Paperback | 445 | 2008 | 2007 | 2019/03/07 | owned, currently-reading | owned (#285), currently-reading (#19) | currently-reading | 1 | 0 | ||||||||||||
| 15784870 | Playing at the World: A History of Simulating Wars, People, and Fantastic Adventure from Chess to Role-Playing Games | Jon Peterson | Peterson, Jon | ="0615642047" | ="9780615642048" | 0 | 4.08 | Unreason Press | Mass Market Paperback | 720 | 2012 | 2012 | 2019/03/07 | currently-reading | currently-reading (#18) | currently-reading | 1 | 0 | ||||||||||||
| 2472201 | Boogiepop at Dawn (Boogiepop) | Kouhei Kadono | Kadono, Kouhei | Kouji Ogata | ="1934876062" | ="9781934876060" | 0 | 3.93 | Seven Seas | Paperback | 292 | 2008 | 1999 | 2019/03/04 | owned | owned (#277) | read | 1 | 0 | |||||||||||
| 41077982 | Boogiepop Overdrive: The King of Distortion | Kouhei Kadono | Kadono, Kouhei | Kouji Ogata | ="" | ="" | 0 | 3.66 | Seven Seas Entertainment | Kindle Edition | 203 | 2018 | 1999 | 2019/02/25 | owned | owned (#276) | read | 1 | 0 | |||||||||||
| 4667382 | Boogiepop in the Mirror: "Pandora" | Kouhei Kadono | Kadono, Kouhei | Kouji Ogata | ="386580909X" | ="9783865809094" | 0 | 3.80 | Paperback | 1998 | 2019/02/13 | owned | owned (#275) | read | 1 | 0 | ||||||||||||||
| 9084021 | Points of View: A Tribute to Alan Kay | Ian Piumarta | Piumarta, Ian | ="0974313114" | ="9780974313115" | 0 | 3.22 | Viewpoints Research Institute, Inc. | ebook | 272 | 2010 | 2010 | 2019/02/03 | currently-reading | currently-reading (#17) | currently-reading | 1 | 0 | ||||||||||||
| 38502098 | A People's History of Computing in the United States | Joy Lisi Rankin | Rankin, Joy Lisi | ="0674970977" | ="9780674970977" | 0 | 3.48 | Harvard University Press | Hardcover | 336 | 2018 | 2019/02/03 | owned, currently-reading | owned (#274), currently-reading (#16) | currently-reading | 1 | 0 | |||||||||||||
| 34373814 | The Friendly Orange Glow: The Untold Story of the PLATO System and the Dawn of Cyberculture | Brian Dear | Dear, Brian | ="1101871555" | ="9781101871553" | 5 | 4.18 | Pantheon Books | Hardcover | 640 | 2017 | 2017 | 2019/02/02 | 2019/01/13 | owned | owned (#272) | read | A compelling, deep, & eminently readable history of a glaring blindspot in much of popular computer history. PLATO pops up, Forrest Gump-like, in the background of almost every computer history story we know that overlaps with its nearly six decade lifespan -- inspiring the Dynabook, inspiring Lotus Notes, inspiring some of Ted Nelson's thoughts about interactive media in Computer Lib / Dream Machines, and hosting the prototypes for some of the most popular computer games of the 80s and 90s -- but this is the first time I've seen it given its full context, as an interesting story in its own right, and I feel like I've had part of my sense of computing history undergo percussive maintenance. In retrospect, *of course* some project must have been the missing link between all these things. This story is also about how PLATO encountered & addressed difficulties associated with being a platform for popular online communities -- difficulties that popped up again in usenet, again in BBSes, and again in email, and again in forums, and again in blogging & social networking. Since we largely haven't figured out the answers to those problems, it's useful to have more data points. For a general-audience book, this work is surprisingly informative about technical aspects of the system -- particularly when technical decisions interacted with UX concerns. So, from a pure history-of-tech perspective, it's interesting on its own. PLATO seems to be part of a lineage of card-based interfaces -- something common (and extremely influential within pre-web hypertext) but rarely documented in the general press. Dear does a lot to contextualize the time period & the political & economic pressures -- putting into perspective who the other players were, what they did, and why, down to the details of infighting between different paradigms in the late-1950s ed-tech space. I rarely see that level of detail in tech histories with regard to funding sources & their justifications. Highly recommended for anyone with even a passing interest in computing history. You don't need a general background in it, but if you have one, the story is even more impressive. |
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| 33409388 | Sherlock Holmes: The Complete Collection | Arthur Conan Doyle | Doyle, Arthur Conan | ="" | ="" | 0 | 4.48 | Arthur Conan Doyle | Kindle Edition | 2016 | 1927 | 2017/01/05 | owned, to-read | owned (#227), to-read (#64) | to-read | 0 | 0 | |||||||||||||
| 35425752 | Manga in Theory and Practice: The Craft of Creating Manga: The Craft of Creating Manga | Hirohiko Araki | Araki, Hirohiko | ="" | ="" | 0 | 4.27 | VIZ Media: SHONEN JUMP | Kindle Edition | 280 | 2017 | 2015 | 2019/01/17 | owned | owned (#273) | read | 1 | 0 | ||||||||||||
| 13168201 | The People's Platform: Taking Back Power and Culture in the Digital Age | Astra Taylor | Taylor, Astra | ="0805093567" | ="9780805093568" | 0 | 4.04 | Metropolitan Books | Hardcover | 288 | 2014 | 2012 | 2019/01/13 | read | 1 | 0 | ||||||||||||||
| 22551869 | Opus | Satoshi Kon | Kon, Satoshi | Zack Davisson | ="1616556064" | ="9781616556068" | 0 | 4.15 | Dark Horse Manga | Paperback | 384 | 2014 | 2011 | 2019/01/13 | owned | owned (#271) | read | 1 | 0 | |||||||||||
| 89724 | We Have Always Lived in the Castle | Shirley Jackson | Jackson, Shirley | Jonathan Lethem | ="0143039970" | ="9780143039976" | 0 | 3.98 | Penguin Books | Paperback | 146 | 2006 | 1962 | 2019/01/10 | owned | owned (#270) | read | 1 | 0 | |||||||||||
| 333867 | The Stars My Destination | Alfred Bester | Bester, Alfred | Neil Gaiman | ="0679767800" | ="9780679767800" | 5 | 4.10 | Vintage | Paperback | 258 | 1996 | 1955 | 2016/01/13 | 2016/01/13 | read | 1 | 0 | ||||||||||||
| 64370 | Mind Performance Hacks: Tips & Tools for Overclocking Your Brain | Ron Hale-Evans | Hale-Evans, Ron | ="0596101538" | ="9780596101534" | 5 | 3.89 | O'Reilly Media | Paperback | 332 | 2006 | 2006 | 2016/05/04 | 2016/05/04 | owned | owned (#170) | read | 1 | 0 | |||||||||||
| 173774 | Infotopia: How Many Minds Produce Knowledge | Cass R. Sunstein | Sunstein, Cass R. | ="0195189280" | ="9780195189285" | 4 | 3.66 | Oxford University Press, USA | Hardcover | 271 | 2006 | 2006 | 2018/11/01 | 2016/07/05 | owned | owned (#201) | read | A good, if dense, survey of mechanisms of group consensus-seeking. My only major complaint is that Sunstein comes off as overly rosy on markets & fails to mention their biggest (and seemingly most obvious) problems as predictive mechanisms, even as many of the synthetic prediction markets he describes avoid these problems (often as ways of side-stepping anti-gambling laws). | 1 | 0 | ||||||||||
| 27833783 | A Brief History of Vice: How Bad Behavior Built Civilization | Robert Evans | Evans, Robert | ="0147517605" | ="9780147517609" | 4 | 3.86 | Plume | Paperback | 260 | 2016 | 2016 | 2016/10/21 | 2016/10/21 | owned | owned (#221) | read | 1 | 0 | |||||||||||
| 14739231 | Gun Machine | Warren Ellis | Ellis, Warren | ="0316187404" | ="9780316187404" | 4 | 3.83 | Mulholland Books | Hardcover | 308 | 2013 | 2012 | 2016/12/02 | 2016/12/02 | owned | owned (#222) | read | 1 | 0 | |||||||||||
| 30654154 | Normal: Book 1 (Normal, #1) | Warren Ellis | Ellis, Warren | ="1466896000" | ="9781466896000" | 3 | 4.05 | FSG Originals | ebook | 2016 | 2015 | 2016/12/02 | 2016/12/02 | owned | owned (#223) | read | 1 | 0 | ||||||||||||
| 16166062 | KLF: Chaos Magic Music Money | J.M.R. Higgs | Higgs, J.M.R. | John Higgs | ="" | ="" | 5 | 4.32 | Kindle Edition | 192 | 2012 | 2012 | 2016/12/02 | 2016/12/02 | owned | owned (#224) | read | 1 | 0 | |||||||||||
| 26530346 | Rise of the Machines: A Cybernetic History | Thomas Rid | Rid, Thomas | ="0393286002" | ="9780393286007" | 5 | 3.87 | W. W. Norton Company | Hardcover | 432 | 2016 | 2016 | 2017/01/01 | 2017/01/01 | owned | owned (#225) | read | 1 | 0 | |||||||||||
| 30798471 | Wonderland: How Play Made the Modern World | Steven Johnson | Johnson, Steven | ="1524709859" | ="9781524709853" | 3 | 3.81 | Random House Large Print Publishing | Paperback | 480 | 2016 | 2016 | 2017/01/01 | 2017/01/01 | owned | owned (#226) | read | 1 | 0 | |||||||||||
| 28957355 | Pirate Utopia | Bruce Sterling | Sterling, Bruce | John Coulthart, Warren Ellis | ="1616962364" | ="9781616962364" | 5 | 3.24 | Tachyon Publications | Hardcover | 192 | 2016 | 2015 | 2017/01/05 | 2017/01/05 | owned | owned (#238) | read | 1 | 0 | ||||||||||
| 13690331 | The Russian Cosmists: The Esoteric Futurism of Nikolai Federov and His Followers | George M. Young | Young, George M. | ="0199892946" | ="9780199892945" | 3 | 4.00 | Oxford University Press, USA | Hardcover | 280 | 2012 | 2012 | 2017/01/11 | 2017/01/11 | owned | owned (#231) | read | Young presents the intellectual tendencies shared between Federov & those associated with the (largely diffuse) Cosmist movement as a core of modern (post-1860) Russian thought, and he makes the case admirably: one can see traces of the stranger tendencies of pre-Soviet, Soviet, and post-Soviet philosophy here, and draw lines between Blavatsky, Scriabin, ideas like the New Soviet Man, & even those elements of current Russian political thought that have been in the news lately. I've given the book only three stars simply because the more academic style was at times a slog. The book is short, and with such interesting subject matter it should be a joy to read, but somehow it took me weeks. Slightly better prose would have easily brought it up to four stars. |
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| 29939336 | Empire Games (Empire Games #1, Merchant Princes Universe #7) | Charles Stross | Stross, Charles | ="0765337568" | ="9780765337566" | 4 | 4.00 | Tor Books | Hardcover | 336 | 2017 | 2017 | 2017/01/31 | 2017/01/31 | owned | owned (#235) | read | 1 | 0 | |||||||||||
| 10569 | On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft | Stephen King | King, Stephen | ="0743455967" | ="9780743455961" | 3 | 4.33 | Pocket Books | Mass Market Paperback | 320 | 2002 | 2000 | 2017/01/31 | 2017/01/31 | owned | owned (#236) | read | 1 | 0 | |||||||||||
| 27311747 | Track Changes: A Literary History of Word Processing | Matthew G. Kirschenbaum | Kirschenbaum, Matthew G. | ="0674417070" | ="9780674417076" | 0 | 3.93 | Belknap Press | Hardcover | 368 | 2016 | 2017/02/25 | 2017/02/25 | owned | owned (#239) | read | 1 | 0 | ||||||||||||
| 2044435 | The Craft of Science Fiction: A Symposium on Writing Science Fiction and Science Fantasy | Reginald Bretnor | Bretnor, Reginald | ="0060104619" | ="9780060104610" | 3 | 3.44 | HarperCollins Publishers | Hardcover | 321 | 1976 | 1976 | 2017/04/24 | 2017/04/24 | owned | owned (#241) | read | 1 | 0 | |||||||||||
| 123698 | The Psychedelic Experience: A Manual Based on the Tibetan Book of the Dead | Timothy Leary | Leary, Timothy | Ralph Metzner, Richard Alpert, Ram Dass | ="0806516526" | ="9780806516523" | 4 | 3.74 | Citadel Underground | Paperback | 160 | 2000 | 1964 | 2017/07/06 | 2017/07/06 | owned | owned (#251) | read | 1 | 0 | ||||||||||
| 28587584 | Time Travel: A History | James Gleick | Gleick, James | ="0307908801" | ="9780307908803" | 0 | 3.58 | Pantheon | ebook | 304 | 2016 | 2016 | 2018/08/18 | 2017/08/18 | owned | owned (#246) | read | 1 | 0 | |||||||||||
| 32689 | Bare Bones: Conversations on Terror with Stephen King | Tim Underwood | Underwood, Tim | Chuck Miller, Stephen King | ="0446390577" | ="9780446390576" | 3 | 4.17 | Warner | Paperback | 224 | 1989 | 1988 | 2017/09/20 | 2017/09/20 | read | 1 | 0 | ||||||||||||
| 11563 | Danse Macabre | Stephen King | King, Stephen | ="042518160X" | ="9780425181607" | 4 | 3.64 | Berkley | Paperback | 400 | 2001 | 1981 | 2017/09/29 | 2017/09/29 | read | 1 | 0 | |||||||||||||
| 33574090 | What the Hell Did I Just Read (John Dies at the End, #3) | David Wong | Wong, David | ="1250040205" | ="9781250040206" | 0 | 4.16 | St. Martin's Press | Hardcover | 375 | 2017 | 2017 | 2017/10/05 | 2017/10/05 | owned | owned (#247) | read | 1 | 0 | |||||||||||
| 25109947 | Lovecraft Country | Matt Ruff | Ruff, Matt | ="" | ="" | 0 | 4.05 | Harper | ebook | 329 | 2016 | 2016 | 2017/10/15 | 2017/10/15 | owned | owned (#248) | read | 1 | 0 | |||||||||||
| 129124 | The Earth Will Shake: The History of the Early Illuminati | Robert Anton Wilson | Wilson, Robert Anton | ="1561841625" | ="9781561841622" | 5 | 4.09 | New Falcon Publications | Paperback | 376 | 2003 | 1982 | 2017/10/16 | 2017/10/16 | owned | owned (#249) | read | 1 | 0 | |||||||||||
| 129126 | The Widow's Son (Historical Illuminatus Chronicles 2) | Robert Anton Wilson | Wilson, Robert Anton | ="1561841633" | ="9781561841639" | 4 | 4.07 | New Falcon Publications | Paperback | 352 | 2004 | 1985 | 2017/10/21 | 2017/10/21 | owned | owned (#250) | read | 1 | 0 | |||||||||||
| 62583 | Nature's God (Historical Illuminatus Chronicles, #3) | Robert Anton Wilson | Wilson, Robert Anton | ="1561841641" | ="9781561841646" | 3 | 4.09 | New Falcon Publications | Paperback | 225 | 2004 | 1991 | 2017/12/02 | 2017/12/02 | owned | owned (#252) | read | While the first two books in the series are exceptional, I felt like this one really phoned it in: it's much shorter, and many sections are essentially collections of RAW quotes or extended hallucination passages (in RAW's trademark imitation of Joyce, wherein he lists arbitrary combinations of words, some imaginary, in the hope that some will be deemed relevant). It's worth reading for those who read the first two, but does not rank highly among his works. | 1 | 0 | ||||||||||
| 2048899 | Writing Space: The Computer, Hypertext, and the History of Writing | J. David Bolter | Bolter, J. David | ="0805804285" | ="9780805804287" | 0 | 3.88 | Routledge | Paperback | 258 | 1990 | 1990 | 2018/01/20 | 2018/01/20 | owned | owned (#257) | read | 1 | 0 | |||||||||||
| 48654 | Story: Substance, Structure, Style, and the Principles of Screenwriting | Robert McKee | McKee, Robert | ="0060391685" | ="9780060391683" | 0 | 4.27 | It Books | Hardcover | 466 | 1997 | 1998 | 2018/03/11 | 2018/03/11 | owned | owned (#259) | read | 1 | 0 | |||||||||||
| 665412 | Great Mambo Chicken And The Transhuman Condition: Science Slightly Over The Edge | Ed Regis | Regis, Ed | ="0201567512" | ="9780201567519" | 0 | 3.98 | Basic Books | Paperback | 308 | 1991 | 1990 | 2018/03/13 | 2018/03/13 | owned | owned (#260) | read | 1 | 0 | |||||||||||
| 15819301 | Encountering America: Sixties Psychology, Counterculture and the Movement That Shaped the Modern Self | Jessica Grogan | Grogan, Jessica | ="006210067X" | ="9780062100672" | 4 | 3.97 | Harper Perennial | ebook | 432 | 2012 | 2012 | 2018/03/24 | 2018/03/24 | owned | owned (#261) | read | 1 | 0 | |||||||||||
| 821800 | Promethea, Vol. 1 | Alan Moore | Moore, Alan | J.H. Williams III, Mick Gray | ="1563896672" | ="9781563896675" | 0 | 3.90 | America's Best Comics | Paperback | 178 | 2000 | 2000 | 2018/05/28 | 2018/05/28 | read | 1 | 0 | ||||||||||||
| 325753 | Promethea, Vol. 2 | Alan Moore | Moore, Alan | J.H. Williams III, Mick Gray, Jeromy Cox, José Villarrubia, Todd Klein | ="1563899574" | ="9781563899577" | 0 | 4.08 | America's Best Comics | Paperback | 176 | 2003 | 2001 | 2018/05/28 | 2018/05/28 | read | 1 | 0 | ||||||||||||
| 325754 | Promethea, Vol. 3 | Alan Moore | Moore, Alan | J.H. Williams III, Mick Gray | ="140120094X" | ="9781401200947" | 0 | 4.11 | WildStorm | Paperback | 160 | 2003 | 2002 | 2018/05/28 | 2018/05/28 | read | 1 | 0 | ||||||||||||
| 325752 | Promethea, Vol. 4 | Alan Moore | Moore, Alan | J.H. Williams III, Mick Gray | ="1401200311" | ="9781401200312" | 0 | 4.16 | WildStorm | Paperback | 192 | 2005 | 2003 | 2018/05/28 | 2018/05/28 | read | 1 | 0 | ||||||||||||
| 325751 | Promethea, Vol. 5 | Alan Moore | Moore, Alan | J.H. Williams III, Mick Gray | ="1401206204" | ="9781401206208" | 0 | 4.23 | WildStorm | Paperback | 200 | 2006 | 2005 | 2018/05/28 | 2018/05/28 | read | 1 | 0 | ||||||||||||
| 307468 | Graphs, Maps, Trees: Abstract Models for a Literary History | Franco Moretti | Moretti, Franco | ="1844670260" | ="9781844670260" | 0 | 3.69 | Verso | Hardcover | 119 | 2005 | 2005 | 2018/08/20 | 2018/08/20 | owned | owned (#263) | read | 1 | 0 | |||||||||||
| 1155302 | Glut: Mastering Information through the Ages | Alex Wright | Wright, Alex | ="0309102383" | ="9780309102384" | 0 | 3.75 | Joseph Henry Press | Hardcover | 286 | 2007 | 2007 | 2018/09/07 | 2018/09/07 | owned | owned (#265) | read | 1 | 0 | |||||||||||
| 1556093 | Ghost Stories of an Antiquary | M.R. James | James, M.R. | E.F. Bleiler, James McBride | ="0486227588" | ="9780486227580" | 0 | 4.08 | Dover Publications (NY) | Paperback | 157 | 2011 | 1904 | 2018/10/26 | 2018/10/26 | owned | owned (#268) | read | 1 | 0 | ||||||||||
| 22591315 | Unidentified Flying Objects: The Psychic Solution | Jacques F. Vallée | Vallée, Jacques F. | ="0586046534" | ="" | 3 | 4.50 | Panther | Paperback | 224 | 1977 | 1977 | 2019/01/03 | 2019/01/03 | read | 1 | 0 | |||||||||||||
| 6538463 | 偽物語 (下) [Nisemonogatari] (Bakemonogatari, #3, Part 2) | NisiOisiN | NisiOisiN, NisiOisiN | VOFAN | ="4062837021" | ="9784062837026" | 0 | 4.05 | 講談社 | Paperback | 323 | 2009 | 2011 | 2017/12/14 | owned | owned (#254) | read | 1 | 0 | |||||||||||
| 8524528 | The Conspiracy Against the Human Race | Thomas Ligotti | Ligotti, Thomas | Ray Brassier | ="098242969X" | ="9780982429693" | 0 | 4.09 | Hippocampus Press | Hardcover | 240 | 2010 | 2011 | 2018/12/22 | to-read | to-read (#96) | to-read | 0 | 0 | |||||||||||
| 391988 | Boogiepop Returns: Vs. Imaginator Part 2 | Kouhei Kadono | Kadono, Kouhei | Kouji Ogata | ="1933164239" | ="9781933164236" | 0 | 4.00 | Seven Seas | Paperback | 248 | 2006 | 1998 | 2018/12/22 | read | 1 | 0 | |||||||||||||
| 391989 | Boogiepop Returns: vs. Imaginator Part 1: vs. Imaginator Part 1 | Kouhei Kadono | Kadono, Kouhei | Kouji Ogata | ="1933164204" | ="9781933164205" | 0 | 3.95 | Seven Seas | Paperback | 224 | 2006 | 1998 | 2018/12/22 | read | 1 | 0 | |||||||||||||
| 233408 | Writing Dialogue | Tom Chiarella | Chiarella, Tom | ="1884910327" | ="9781884910326" | 4 | 3.77 | Story Press Books | Paperback | 176 | 1998 | 1998 | 2018/01/03 | owned | owned (#255) | read | 1 | 0 | ||||||||||||
| 24997006 | Dark State (Empire Games #2, Merchant Princes Universe #8) | Charles Stross | Stross, Charles | ="1509823522" | ="9781509823529" | 0 | 4.17 | Tor Books UK | Paperback | 352 | 2018 | 2018 | 2018/01/20 | owned | owned (#256) | read | 1 | 0 | ||||||||||||
| 1427580 | Fire in the Valley: The Making of the Personal Computer | Paul Freiberger | Freiberger, Paul | Michael Swaine | ="0071358927" | ="9780071358927" | 0 | 4.14 | McGraw-Hill | Paperback | 463 | 1999 | 1984 | 2018/07/06 | read | 1 | 0 | |||||||||||||
| 28815491 | Ghostland: An American History in Haunted Places | Colin Dickey | Dickey, Colin | ="1101980192" | ="9781101980194" | 5 | 3.76 | Viking | Hardcover | 320 | 2016 | 2016 | 2018/07/06 | owned | owned (#262) | read | Entertainingly uses actual ghost stories & their intersection with history to illustrate the interactions between architecture, culture, and memory. It could be used (as "ghost guidebooks often are intended") as a map for tourists to famously-haunted places, but its real strength lies in philosophy: it's more of a collection of essays about the interplay of place & people, each organized around one or two particular locations whose stories illustrate the main point. | 1 | 0 | |||||||||||
| 5592 | From Counterculture to Cyberculture: Stewart Brand, the Whole Earth Network, and the Rise of Digital Utopianism | Fred Turner | Turner, Fred | ="0226817415" | ="9780226817415" | 4 | 3.96 | University of Chicago Press | Hardcover | 327 | 2006 | 2006 | 2018/08/29 | owned | owned (#264) | read | A well-researched profile of Stewart Brand and his cohort, illustrating not only the nuances of the historical connection between communalist strains of the 60s counterculture and internet optimism post-cyberdelia (in a more careful and accurate way than What the Dormouse Said) but the incredible power of Brand's own reputation-building and power-building techniques (which have been more recently replicated by Tim O'Reilley). Made me reconsider a lot of ideas I now realize I had uncritically swallowed from Wired. It gets four stars instead of five because the prose is dense, businesslike, and somewhat repetitive. If you can stomach dryly-academic books with no stylistic flair, this is a good one. |
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| 35561030 | The Power of Prolog | Markus Triska | Triska, Markus | ="" | ="" | 5 | 5.00 | 2018/10/26 | read | A fantastic summary of the techniques, idioms, and mental models of modern prolog development, filling in the 20 year gap in textbook coverage, and covering techniques and widely-available libraries that solve some of the common complaints about prolog. | 1 | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||
| 18077769 | Authority (Southern Reach, #2) | Jeff VanderMeer | VanderMeer, Jeff | ="0374104107" | ="9780374104108" | 4 | 3.52 | Farrar, Straus and Giroux | Paperback | 341 | 2014 | 2014 | 2018/09/19 | owned | owned (#267) | read | Reminiscent of Kafka or of Lem's Memoirs Found in a Bathtub. Pleasantly surreal espionage fiction. One gets the feeling that the narrator is unreliable rather earlier than in the first book. | 1 | 0 | |||||||||||
| 784567 | Web of Angels | John M. Ford | Ford, John M. | ="0812509595" | ="9780812509595" | 4 | 3.78 | Tor Books | Paperback | 320 | 1992 | 1980 | 2018/09/10 | owned | owned (#266) | read | The author seems to have just thrown plot threads at the wall -- no particular structure -- but nevertheless, the real draw for this book is the detailed and extremely creative worldbuilding. If you wish Neuromancer was written by Cordwainer Smith, this is the book for you. You'll get more out of the book if you're familiar with tarot (particularly the Rider-Waite deck) and with Greek & Norse mythology; there are Arthurian references I barely caught and opera references (some to Wagner) that went far over my head. |
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| 553907 | Camp Concentration | Thomas M. Disch | Disch, Thomas M. | ="0375705457" | ="9780375705458" | 4 | 3.75 | Vintage | Paperback | 184 | 1999 | 1967 | 2018/09/01 | read | 1 | 0 | ||||||||||||||
| 391987 | Boogiepop And Others | Kouhei Kadono | Kadono, Kouhei | Kouji Ogata | ="1933164166" | ="9781933164168" | 3 | 3.85 | Seven Seas | Paperback | 264 | 2006 | 1998 | 2018/12/20 | read | 1 | 0 | |||||||||||||
| 17401136 | Vurt (Vurt, #1) | Jeff Noon | Noon, Jeff | Lauren Beukes | ="0230768806" | ="9780230768802" | 4 | 4.06 | Tor | Hardcover | 368 | 2013 | 1993 | 2018/12/04 | owned | owned (#269) | read | Engaging and creative world, polished & poetic writing, and breezy plotting. Structure will look familiar from the first Matrix movie, made six years later. Fans of Rx: A Tale of Electronegativity and Gun With Occasional Music will love this book. | 1 | 0 | ||||||||||
| 36053406 | The Labyrinth Index (Laundry Files, #9) | Charles Stross | Stross, Charles | ="" | ="" | 0 | 4.16 | Tor.com | Kindle Edition | 384 | 2018 | 2018 | 2018/11/10 | 2018/10/31 | read | 1 | 0 | |||||||||||||
| 7912517 | Seven Languages in Seven Weeks | Bruce A. Tate | Tate, Bruce A. | ="193435659X" | ="9781934356593" | 5 | 3.97 | Pragmatic Bookshelf | Paperback | 328 | 2010 | 2010 | 2018/11/03 | 2016/07/05 | owned | owned (#181) | read | 1 | 0 | |||||||||||
| 10514 | Travels in Hyperreality | Umberto Eco | Eco, Umberto | John Radziewicz, William Weaver | ="0156913216" | ="9780156913218" | 0 | 3.90 | Mariner Books | Paperback | 324 | 1990 | 1973 | 2018/10/26 | to-read | to-read (#95) | to-read | 0 | 0 | |||||||||||
| 36794489 | When Einstein Walked with Gödel: Excursions to the Edge of Thought | Jim Holt | Holt, Jim | ="0374146705" | ="9780374146702" | 0 | 4.04 | Farrar, Straus and Giroux | Hardcover | 368 | 2018 | 2018 | 2018/10/26 | to-read | to-read (#94) | to-read | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||||
| 33549329 | Conan the Barbarian: The Complete Collection (Book House) | Robert E. Howard | Howard, Robert E. | Book House | ="" | ="" | 0 | 4.18 | Book House | Kindle Edition | 774 | 2016 | 2016 | 2017/01/05 | owned, to-read | owned (#228), to-read (#65) | to-read | 0 | 0 | |||||||||||
| 51660 | Food of the Gods: The Search for the Original Tree of Knowledge | Terence McKenna | McKenna, Terence | ="0553371304" | ="9780553371307" | 4 | 4.11 | Bantam Books (NY et al.) | Paperback | 311 | 1993 | 1992 | 2018/09/01 | 2017/05/10 | owned | owned (#242) | read | 2 | 0 | |||||||||||
| 17934530 | Annihilation (Southern Reach, #1) | Jeff VanderMeer | VanderMeer, Jeff | ="0374104093" | ="9780374104092" | 0 | 3.70 | Farrar, Straus and Giroux | Paperback | 195 | 2014 | 2014 | 2018/08/02 | 2018/07/19 | read | 1 | 0 | |||||||||||||
| 920795 | The New Weird | Ann VanderMeer | VanderMeer, Ann | Jeff VanderMeer, Jay Lake, Jeffrey Ford, Sarah Monette, Paul Di Filippo, Michael Moorcock, China Miéville, Hal Duncan, K.J. Bishop, Felix Gilman, Steph Swainston, M. John Harrison, Clive Barker, Leena Krohn, Alistair Rennie | ="1892391554" | ="9781892391551" | 0 | 3.74 | Tachyon Publications | Paperback | 403 | 2008 | 2008 | 2018/07/19 | 2015/11/21 | owned | owned (#55) | read | 1 | 0 | ||||||||||
| 24100285 | Space Opera | Catherynne M. Valente | Valente, Catherynne M. | ="1472115074" | ="9781472115072" | 0 | 3.50 | Corsair | Hardcover | 352 | 2018 | 2018 | 2018/07/06 | to-read | to-read (#93) | to-read | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||||
| 36510759 | The Freeze-Frame Revolution | Peter Watts | Watts, Peter | ="1616962526" | ="9781616962524" | 0 | 3.98 | Tachyon Publications | Paperback | 190 | 2018 | 2018 | 2018/07/06 | to-read | to-read (#92) | to-read | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||||
| 3267537 | Politics and the Occult: The Left, the Right, and the Radically Unseen | Gary Lachman | Lachman, Gary | ="0835608573" | ="9780835608572" | 4 | 3.72 | Quest Books | Paperback | 336 | 2008 | 2008 | 2018/06/28 | 2015/11/21 | owned | owned (#137) | read | Not quite as dense as Sex and Rockets (and about even with Lachman's Crowley biography, in terms of readability), this book nevertheless demonstrates both a breadth and depth of scholarship on occult history that's remarkable. It's not a casual read but one that might serve as a gateway to research into other works -- a starting point for looking up the details of individual movements that might catch your eye, connecting them together on a macro scale. I always find Lachman's books to be a slog to read, simply because their prose is workmanlike rather than polished, but he always pulls his weight in terms of sheer subject-matter knowledge. In this case, he draws out a complex genealogy of occult-informed and occult-adjacent political thought -- a chain of influence from the gnostics to the rosicrucians to Evola to Left Behind -- and illuminates the various ways certain ideas twisted over time and the infighting between occult-influenced individuals and groups over the political significance of esoteric ideas. Just as the personal is political, the metaphysical and religious is personal: one's worldview is a continuous landscape, and categories of convenience like "politics" and "religion" rarely adequately fit, only explaining things vaguely and only for large group whose differences can be ignored for polling purposes. Occult politics is about people who don't easily fit into these categories and who often themselves work to redefine how the general population looks at the world. |
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| 18699137 | Cataloging the World: Paul Otlet and the Birth of the Information Age | Alex Wright | Wright, Alex | ="0199931410" | ="9780199931415" | 4 | 3.79 | Oxford University Press, USA | Hardcover | 350 | 2014 | 2014 | 2018/05/06 | 2018/04/29 | read | A lucid account of an era in information technology when the dewey decimal system was still in flux and the state of the art was index cards & microfilm, bookended by a brief overview of early rennaisance encyclopedic cataloguing systems on one side & a brief overview of the history of hypertext on the other, all tied together by Paul Otlet, a forgotten figure at the nexus of a social network that includes a nobel peace prize winner, Henry James, Le Corbusier, Woodrow Wilson, W. E. B. DuBois, H. G. Wells, and King Leopold II. Set mostly in the early 20th century, as a flowering of utopian internationalist projects like the development of Esperanto and the formation of the League of Nations gave way to nationalism and war, this is interesting if you're into that period even if bibliography isn't your bag. The one criticism I have is something the editor should have caught: many sentences are followed by near-identical sentences -- a repetition that's probably the result of stitching together different revisions of the same material. This phenomenon is rare but noticeable. |
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| 18079508 | Aleister Crowley: Magick, Rock and Roll, and the Wickedest Man in the World | Gary Lachman | Lachman, Gary | ="0399161902" | ="9780399161902" | 0 | 3.36 | TarcherPerigee | Paperback | 400 | 2014 | 2014 | 2018/03/11 | 2018/03/11 | owned | owned (#258) | read | 1 | 0 | |||||||||||
| 2837107 | The Bizarro Starter Kit (blue) | Steve Aylett | Aylett, Steve | Bradley Sands, Jeremy C. Shipp, Ray Fracalossy, Jordan Krall, Mykle Hansen, Andersen Prunty, Eckhard Gerdes, Christian TeBordo, Tony Rauch | ="1933929626" | ="9781933929620" | 0 | 3.92 | Eraserhead Press | Paperback | 244 | 2007 | 2007 | 2018/02/27 | to-read | to-read (#91) | to-read | 0 | 0 | |||||||||||
| 34623096 | Aleister Crowley in America: Art, Espionage, and Sex Magick in the New World | Tobias Churton | Churton, Tobias | ="1620556308" | ="9781620556306" | 0 | 3.93 | Inner Traditions | Hardcover | 768 | 2017 | 2018/02/27 | to-read | to-read (#90) | to-read | 0 | 0 | |||||||||||||
| 22881972 | An Insider's Guide to Robert Anton Wilson | Eric Wagner | Wagner, Eric | Robert Anton Wilson | ="" | ="" | 0 | 3.67 | New Falcon Publications | Kindle Edition | 269 | 2004 | 2004 | 2018/01/03 | to-read | to-read (#89) | to-read | 0 | 0 | |||||||||||
| 32147634 | NISEMONOGATARI, Part 1: Fake Tale | NisiOisiN | NisiOisiN, NisiOisiN | VOFAN, James Balzer | ="1942993986" | ="9781942993988" | 4 | 4.03 | Vertical | Paperback | 306 | 2017 | 2008 | 2018/01/03 | 2017/12/14 | owned | owned (#253) | read | Nisemonogatari is my favorite arc of the show, because it engages with some of Nisioisin's most outlandish ideas. I picked up the books in order to see if those ideas are expanded upon better in their original form. In this first of two volumes I don't feel like they were, but nevertheless, some plot elements are easier to follow here, and certain points (particularly about Araragi's relationship to his sisters, rather than about the theme of the arc) seem to be made more explicit here (or perhaps are simply easier to catch than when they blew by in the show). The English translation is great, and properly captures Nisioisin's circuitous style. I had previously read part of the baka-tsuki fan-translation, and as a result, I have an even greater opinion of the professional translation here: baka-tsuki is full of skilled and dedicated people, but the official English release blows it out of the water in terms of craft for this franchise. The structure of this arc is strange, in part because Nisioisin originally didn't intend to release it. So, for instance, the inciting incident of the main plot of this volume occurs about halfway through the book. However, if meandering turns you off, Nisioisin is not the author for you anyhow! |
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| 304807 | Patterns | Pat Cadigan | Cadigan, Pat | Bruce Sterling | ="0312868375" | ="9780312868376" | 3 | 3.70 | Tor Books | Paperback | 224 | 1999 | 1987 | 2017/05/29 | 2017/03/06 | read | 1 | 0 | ||||||||||||
| 948138 | Rewired: The Post-Cyberpunk Anthology | James Patrick Kelly | Kelly, James Patrick | John Kessel, Pat Cadigan, Greg Egan, Paolo Bacigalupi, Paul Di Filippo, Elizabeth Bear, David Marusek, Mary Rosenblum, Cory Doctorow, Bruce Sterling, William Gibson, Gwyneth Jones, Jonathan Lethem, Charles Stross, Michael Swanwick, Walter Jon Williams, Christopher Rowe | ="1892391538" | ="9781892391537" | 0 | 3.79 | Tachyon Publications | Paperback | 424 | 2007 | 2007 | 2017/09/20 | to-read | to-read (#88) | to-read | 0 | 0 | |||||||||||
| 13538873 | Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore (Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore, #1) | Robin Sloan | Sloan, Robin | ="0374214913" | ="9780374214913" | 0 | 3.74 | Farrar, Straus and Giroux | Hardcover | 288 | 2012 | 2012 | 2017/09/05 | to-read | to-read (#87) | to-read | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||||
| 25814209 | The Creative Tarot: A Modern Guide to an Inspired Life | Jessa Crispin | Crispin, Jessa | ="1501120239" | ="9781501120237" | 4 | 4.10 | Atria Books | Paperback | 352 | 2016 | 2016 | 2017/09/05 | 2017/09/05 | read | I came to this expecting something that would show how to create compelling narratives from spreads (sort of like is done with the StoryForge deck), and this is not that kind of book (and instead focuses on variations of more traditional readings geared toward long-term creative projects). It presents spreads and card interpretations that push tarot closer to Oblique Strategies rather than closer to StoryForge. (This is OK: tarot is a lot more symbolically potent than Oblique Strategies and the spreads this book presents are good ones.) Another thing this book did that kind of blew my mind was the organization. Rather than organizing first by suits and then by cards, all minor arcana were organized by number and then by suit, illuminating relationships between (say) the five of cups and the five of wands which I had never considered before. (Perhaps this isn't unique to this book, but I haven't read a tarot book that did this before.) This is a breezy volume: it was almost 300 pages but I finished it in a single sitting without fatigue. I strongly recommend it for people with a casual interest in tarot, even if they aren't professional creatives, because it cuts through the bullshit pretty effectively. |
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| 28589297 | Unsong | Scott Alexander | Alexander, Scott | ="" | ="" | 0 | 4.42 | ebook | 658 | 2017 | 2017 | 2017/07/25 | currently-reading | currently-reading (#15) | currently-reading | 1 | 0 | |||||||||||||
| 381554 | Bolo'Bolo | P.M. | P.M., P.M. | ="093675608X" | ="9780936756080" | 4 | 4.05 | Autonomedia | Hardcover | 198 | 1984 | 1984 | 2017/08/25 | 2017/01/11 | read | Bolo'Bolo is a blueprint for a future society along vaguely anarcho-syndicalist lines. I find it more sensible than most such proposals, because it makes an effort to be flexible & account for the various human flaws (and because it presents concrete methods for slowly transitioning to the society it describes, not depending upon revolution but instead by subverting and rerouting existing structures in such a way as to be sustainable). It is a little less accessible than it could be because of the heavy use of neologisms & appropriation of mystical or religious language from very different contexts. (For instance, it refers to diagrams of political relations as 'yantras'.) Over all, I would recommend this to anybody with a passing interest in anarchist or communist ideas (or with an interest in utopian or eutopian social planning or counterfactual social structures). Authors of speculative fiction in particular might be impressed with the rich trove of ideas in this (relatively short) work. |
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| 189938 | TAZ: The Temporary Autonomous Zone (New Autonomy) | Hakim Bey | Bey, Hakim | Peter Lamborn Wilson | ="1570271518" | ="9781570271519" | 0 | 4.03 | Autonomedia | Paperback | 147 | 2003 | 1991 | 2017/08/04 | to-read | to-read (#86) | to-read | 0 | 0 | |||||||||||
| 25316540 | KIZUMONOGATARI: Wound Tale | NisiOisiN | NisiOisiN, NisiOisiN | VOFAN, Ko Ransom | ="1941220975" | ="9781941220979" | 5 | 4.27 | Vertical | Paperback | 354 | 2015 | 2007 | 2017/08/04 | 2017/07/06 | owned | owned (#244) | read | Having had read about half of an unofficial translation earlier, I have to really praise the translator here: whoever it is managed to keep NisioisiN's signature style while making it readable to anglophone audiences -- something that a more direct translation fails at. In terms of the adapted material, I prefer Nisemonogatari, but this book kept on blowing me away with its structure and prose. |
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| 22529332 | Historia Discordia: The Origins of the Discordian Society | Adam Gorightly | Gorightly, Adam | Robert Anton Wilson, Kerry W. Thornley, Greg Hill | ="1618613219" | ="9781618613219" | 0 | 4.27 | RVP Press | Paperback | 296 | 2014 | 2014 | 2017/07/25 | to-read | to-read (#85) | to-read | 0 | 0 | |||||||||||
| 23383557 | Season of the Witch: How the Occult Saved Rock and Roll | Peter Bebergal | Bebergal, Peter | ="" | ="" | 0 | 3.47 | TarcherPerigee | Kindle Edition | 287 | 2014 | 2014 | 2017/07/25 | to-read | to-read (#84) | to-read | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||||
| 88941 | A Thousand Years of Nonlinear History | Manuel DeLanda | DeLanda, Manuel | ="0942299329" | ="9780942299328" | 0 | 4.18 | Zone Books | Paperback | 336 | 2000 | 1997 | 2017/07/25 | to-read | to-read (#83) | to-read | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||||
| 415 | Gravity's Rainbow | Thomas Pynchon | Pynchon, Thomas | ="0143039946" | ="9780143039945" | 0 | 3.97 | Penguin Books | Paperback | 776 | 2006 | 1973 | 2017/07/25 | to-read | to-read (#82) | to-read | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||||
| 525304 | Star Maker | Olaf Stapledon | Stapledon, Olaf | ="1857988078" | ="9781857988079" | 0 | 3.93 | Millennium Paperbacks | Paperback | 272 | 1999 | 1937 | 2017/07/25 | to-read | to-read (#81) | to-read | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||||
| 85867 | Dhalgren | Samuel R. Delany | Delany, Samuel R. | ="0375706682" | ="9780375706684" | 0 | 3.79 | Vintage | Paperback | 801 | 2001 | 1975 | 2017/07/25 | to-read | to-read (#80) | to-read | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||||
| 6759 | Infinite Jest | David Foster Wallace | Wallace, David Foster | ="0316921173" | ="9780316921176" | 0 | 4.28 | Back Bay Books | Paperback | 1088 | 2005 | 1996 | 2017/07/25 | to-read | to-read (#79) | to-read | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||||
| 32063117 | The Delirium Brief (Laundry Files, #8) | Charles Stross | Stross, Charles | ="" | ="" | 5 | 4.27 | Tor.com | Kindle Edition | 384 | 2017 | 2017 | 2017/07/17 | 2017/07/14 | owned | owned (#245) | read | 2 | 0 | |||||||||||
| 9274730 | Mad as Hell: The Crisis of the 1970s and the Rise of the Populist Right | Dominic Sandbrook | Sandbrook, Dominic | ="1400042623" | ="9781400042623" | 0 | 4.15 | Knopf | Hardcover | 528 | 2011 | 2011 | 2017/07/06 | to-read | to-read (#78) | to-read | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||||
| 28071 | The Situationist City | Simon Sadler | Sadler, Simon | ="0262692252" | ="9780262692250" | 0 | 3.87 | MIT Press | Paperback | 248 | 1999 | 1998 | 2017/07/06 | to-read | to-read (#77) | to-read | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||||
| 344472 | Mozart's Brain and the Fighter Pilot: Unleashing Your Brain's Potential | Richard Restak | Restak, Richard | ="0609810057" | ="9780609810057" | 3 | 3.62 | Harmony | Paperback | 224 | 2002 | 2001 | 2017/07/05 | 2017/07/06 | owned | owned (#243) | read | This book largely covers material already addressed in more popular books (like O'Reilly's Mind Hacks & Mind Performance Hacks and Thinking Fast & Slow), and while it covers that material in a breezy and readable style, such a style is not really well-suited to the content: it's somewhere between the theory-heavy Thinking Fast & Slow and the abstract list of mostly-independent tips and exercises of the O'Reilly books, yet reads like a budget version of Oliver Sacks. The O'Reilly format is much better suited to the content, which leans heavily toward tips and exercises, and had the author adopted that style (and moved the background material to section introductions) the result would be a book that's significantly easier to go back and reference. It introduces just a handful of ideas not already widely covered in this genre. They have their own chapters, but are easily summarized: * Exercises that develop balance, proprioception, and manual dexterity (such as tai chi, games involving throwing balls, and model building) are useful because they build up networks for embodied thinking while also giving us a way to release some physical energy while engaging the default mode network. * Waking life can be divided into four mood states: calm energy, tense energy, calm tiredness, and tense tiredness. Tense tiredness is unpleasant -- a state of irritability and low productivity, and should be minimized by going to sleep. Calm energy and tense energy are both useful for productive work (calm energy being, basically, a flow state, and tense energy being the kind of productive-yet-edgy state that caffeine ideally induces) and calm tiredness is useful for daydreaming. Switching from calm tiredness to calm energy can be done via light exercise, such as a brisk walk. A nap converts tense tiredness into calm tiredness. * Visualization exercises can improve not just visualization but also observation. * Creative rearrangement of reminders of emotionally potent past events can be useful for improving autobiographical memory. Furthermore, he covers a couple things that aren't usually in these books but are in adjacent parts of the general self-help genre: the basics of CBT and DBT, pranayama, simple meditation. He borrows ideas about journaling and notetaking from productivity books (which often overlap with this kind of book), while he otherwise mostly focuses on improvement of actual brain function. Basically, if you've read Mind Performance Hacks and Thinking Fast & Slow and then read (and understood) the previous paragraphs, there isn't much point in actually picking up this book: it's very short and contains very little new information. On the other hand, it's also inexpensive and a quick read (it could be conceivably read in a single afternoon, though I didn't), so if this kind of book is your bag it's better than most of the genre. My most serious criticism is a habit this shares with other popular science books written in a breezy style: the author summarizes popular yet clearly flawed arguments credulously or makes arguments that contain big leaps in reasoning (either because the arguments are flawed or because the material that fills in the gaps was cut for being too technical). Specifically: * The author credulously repeats the idea that modern media causes ADHD (and that reading books on a backlit screen is more likely to cause ADHD than reading books on a page) without going into any more detail about his reasoning than the obviously-flawed and sloppy op-eds that make the same argument do. Maybe he has an actual argument and just didn't include it, or maybe he has never bothered to really consider the argument he's repeating. Either way, repeating this sloppy argument casts doubt on whether or not he should be writing a book about how to be more intelligent! * The author repeats the idea that listening to Mozart makes you smarter, again without really explaining his reasoning (other than to say that music builds up networks for recognizing patterns). The study he cites was extremely weak, and has since had many criticisms and failed replications. He doesn't cover this, even though the criticisms appeared basically immediately. If he read the study itself rather than media coverage of it, then not mentioning the obvious criticisms in this book is unforgivable. * He claims that listening to music you like is better for brain development than listening to music you don't like. His argument is that different networks light up. He doesn't elaborate on what these different networks are. So, his conclusion doesn't follow from his argument, and his argument is trivial (after all, different networks light up when you look at a red ball vs a blue ball, but that doesn't make one better than the other, nor does it indicate which is better). There are plenty of good reasons to believe that listening to music you don't like is better for brain development (since, after all, mere exposure is enough to engender positive feelings with regard to music up to a certain point, so music you don't like is usually music whose components you are unfamiliar with: explicitly seeking out uncomfortable music is a way to broaden your horizons, something he suggests doing with books!) |
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| 5558786 | Metro 2033 (Metro, #1) | Dmitry Glukhovsky | Glukhovsky, Dmitry | M. David Drevs | ="3453532988" | ="9783453532984" | 0 | 4.00 | Heyne Verlag | Paperback | 764 | 2008 | 2002 | 2017/06/03 | to-read | to-read (#76) | to-read | 0 | 0 | |||||||||||
| 359375 | Night Watch (Watch #1) | Sergei Lukyanenko | Lukyanenko, Sergei | Andrew Bromfield | ="1401359795" | ="9781401359799" | 0 | 3.98 | Miramax Books | Paperback | 455 | 2006 | 1998 | 2017/06/03 | to-read | to-read (#75) | to-read | 0 | 0 | |||||||||||
| 331256 | Roadside Picnic | Arkady Strugatsky | Strugatsky, Arkady | Boris Strugatsky, Theodore Sturgeon, Antonina W. Bouis | ="0575070536" | ="9780575070530" | 0 | 4.18 | Gollancz | Paperback | 145 | 2000 | 1972 | 2017/06/03 | to-read | to-read (#74) | to-read | 0 | 0 | |||||||||||
| 1179665 | Early Mormonism and the Magic World View | D. Michael Quinn | Quinn, D. Michael | ="1560850892" | ="9781560850892" | 0 | 4.08 | Signature Books | Paperback | 646 | 1998 | 1987 | 2017/05/10 | to-read | to-read (#73) | to-read | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||||
| 18346699 | The Moe Manifesto: An Insider's Look at the Worlds of Manga, Anime, and Gaming | Patrick W. Galbraith | Galbraith, Patrick W. | ="4805312823" | ="9784805312827" | 3 | 3.53 | Tuttle Publishing | Paperback | 192 | 2014 | 2014 | 2017/05/10 | 2017/03/06 | read | 1 | 0 | |||||||||||||
| 28580272 | Transreal Cyberpunk | Rudy Rucker | Rucker, Rudy | Bruce Sterling, Rob Latham | ="1940948142" | ="9781940948140" | 4 | 3.88 | Transreal Books | Paperback | 310 | 2015 | 2015 | 2017/02/26 | 2017/02/26 | owned | owned (#240) | read | A collection of supremely weird stories. If you liked Semiotext(e) SF, this is a good companion. Despite the title, not a lot here can be described as "cyberpunk" -- it's probably called this because it's the collaboration between two figures most closely identified with the cyberpunk movement. Instead, this ranges from gonzo biopunk to bizarro. |
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| 89717 | The Haunting of Hill House | Shirley Jackson | Jackson, Shirley | Laura Miller | ="0143039989" | ="9780143039983" | 4 | 3.84 | Penguin Classics | Paperback | 182 | 2006 | 1959 | 2017/02/05 | 2015/12/13 | owned | owned (#233) | read | 1 | 0 | ||||||||||
| 449902 | Pirate Utopias: Moorish Corsairs & European Renegadoes | Peter Lamborn Wilson | Wilson, Peter Lamborn | James Koehnline | ="1570271585" | ="9781570271588" | 0 | 3.85 | Autonomedia (Brooklyn) | Paperback | 219 | 2003 | 1995 | 2017/02/05 | to-read | to-read (#72) | to-read | 0 | 0 | |||||||||||
| 24800 | House of Leaves | Mark Z. Danielewski | Danielewski, Mark Z. | ="038560310X" | ="9780385603102" | 0 | 4.05 | Random House | Paperback | 705 | 2000 | 2000 | 2017/01/31 | owned, to-read | owned (#237), to-read (#71) | to-read | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||||
| 22613 | Simulacra and Simulation | Jean Baudrillard | Baudrillard, Jean | Sheila Faria Glaser | ="0472065211" | ="9780472065219" | 0 | 3.99 | University of Michigan Press | Paperback | 164 | 1994 | 1981 | 2017/01/31 | to-read | to-read (#70) | to-read | 0 | 0 | |||||||||||
| 29236402 | Aleister & Adolf | Douglas Rushkoff | Rushkoff, Douglas | Michael Avon Oeming | ="1506701043" | ="9781506701042" | 0 | 3.31 | Dark Horse Originals | Hardcover | 88 | 2016 | 2016 | 2017/01/11 | to-read | to-read (#69) | to-read | 0 | 0 | |||||||||||
| 29548767 | Time Travel: A History | James Gleick | Gleick, James | ="" | ="" | 0 | 3.58 | Vintage | Kindle Edition | 354 | 2016 | 2016 | 2017/01/11 | to-read | to-read (#68) | to-read | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||||
| 28503846 | The Big Book of Science Fiction | Ann VanderMeer | VanderMeer, Ann | Jeff VanderMeer, Kojo Laing | ="1101910097" | ="9781101910092" | 0 | 4.24 | Vintage | Paperback | 1178 | 2016 | 2016 | 2017/01/11 | owned, to-read | owned (#234), to-read (#67) | to-read | 0 | 0 | |||||||||||
| 24693663 | Heads: A Biography of Psychedelic America | Jesse Jarnow | Jarnow, Jesse | ="0306822555" | ="9780306822551" | 0 | 4.14 | Da Capo Press | Hardcover | 512 | 2016 | 2016 | 2017/01/11 | owned, currently-reading | owned (#232), currently-reading (#14) | currently-reading | 1 | 0 | ||||||||||||
| 23692271 | Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind | Yuval Noah Harari | Harari, Yuval Noah | ="" | ="" | 0 | 4.41 | Harvill Secker | Paperback | 498 | 2014 | 2011 | 2017/01/11 | owned, currently-reading | owned (#230), currently-reading (#13) | currently-reading | 1 | 0 | ||||||||||||
| 8466224 | Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell | Susanna Clarke | Clarke, Susanna | ="" | ="" | 0 | 3.82 | Bloomsbury | Kindle Edition | 865 | 2010 | 2004 | 2017/01/05 | to-read | to-read (#66) | to-read | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||||
| 24427699 | The Dead Media Notebook | Bruce Sterling | Sterling, Bruce | Richard Kadrey, Tom Jennings, Tom Whitwell | ="" | ="" | 0 | 3.79 | Music Thing Press | Kindle Edition | 921 | 2015 | 2015 | 2017/01/05 | owned, currently-reading | owned (#229), currently-reading (#12) | currently-reading | 1 | 0 | |||||||||||
| 725789 | What the Dormouse Said: How the Sixties Counterculture Shaped the Personal Computer Industry | John Markoff | Markoff, John | ="0143036769" | ="9780143036760" | 4 | 3.82 | Penguin Group | Paperback | 310 | 2006 | 2005 | 2016/07/05 | owned | owned (#213) | read | 1 | 0 | ||||||||||||
| 18114478 | Exploding the Phone | Phil Lapsley | Lapsley, Phil | ="0802122280" | ="9780802122285" | 3 | 4.18 | Grove Press | Paperback | 448 | 2014 | 2013 | 2016/07/05 | owned | owned (#214) | read | 1 | 0 | ||||||||||||
| 3227607 | The Devouring Fungus: Tales of the Computer Age | Karla Jennings | Jennings, Karla | ="0393307328" | ="9780393307320" | 4 | 3.33 | W. W. Norton Company | Paperback | 240 | 1990 | 1990 | 2016/07/05 | owned | owned (#215) | read | 1 | 0 | ||||||||||||
| 102920 | Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art | Scott McCloud | McCloud, Scott | ="" | ="" | 5 | 3.98 | William Morrow Paperbacks | Paperback | 215 | 1993 | 1993 | 2016/07/05 | owned | owned (#216) | read | 1 | 0 | ||||||||||||
| 241886 | The Prankster and the Conspiracy: The Story of Kerry Thornley and How He Met Oswald and Inspired the Counterculture | Adam Gorightly | Gorightly, Adam | ="193104466X" | ="9781931044660" | 3 | 4.00 | Paraview Press | Paperback | 292 | 2003 | 2003 | 2016/07/05 | owned | owned (#217) | read | 1 | 0 | ||||||||||||
| 9045589 | Mirage Men: An Adventure into Paranoia, Espionage, Psychological Warfare, and UFOs | Mark Pilkington | Pilkington, Mark | ="1602398003" | ="9781602398009" | 4 | 3.94 | Skyhorse | Hardcover | 352 | 2010 | 2010 | 2016/07/05 | owned | owned (#218) | read | 1 | 0 | ||||||||||||
| 18490708 | Echopraxia (Firefall, #2) | Peter Watts | Watts, Peter | ="076532802X" | ="9780765328021" | 4 | 3.87 | Tor Books | Hardcover | 384 | 2014 | 2014 | 2015/12/13 | owned | owned (#220) | read | 1 | 0 | ||||||||||||
| 22463139 | Vast | Moore Lande | Lande, Moore | ="" | ="" | 0 | 0.0 | Sara Ranchouse Publishing | Paperback | 160 | 1994 | 1994 | 2016/09/09 | to-read | to-read (#63) | to-read | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||||
| 12920407 | Possiplex | Ted Nelson | Nelson, Ted | ="089347004X" | ="9780893470043" | 4 | 4.14 | Lulu.com | Paperback | 382 | 2010 | 2011 | 2015/11/21 | owned | owned (#123) | read | 1 | 0 | ||||||||||||
| 30743777 | Neoreaction a Basilisk | Philip Sandifer | Sandifer, Philip | ="" | ="" | 4 | 3.90 | Eruditorum Press | ebook | 2016 | 2016 | 2016/07/08 | 2016/06/28 | owned | owned (#174) | read | 1 | 0 | ||||||||||||
| 49464 | Save the Cat: The Last Book on Screenwriting You'll Ever Need | Blake Snyder | Snyder, Blake | ="1932907009" | ="9781932907001" | 5 | 4.05 | Michael Wiese Productions | Paperback | 195 | 2005 | 2005 | 2015/11/21 | owned | owned (#56) | read | 1 | 0 | ||||||||||||
| 40957 | The Vanishing Hitchhiker: American Urban Legends and Their Meanings | Jan Harold Brunvand | Brunvand, Jan Harold | ="0393951693" | ="9780393951691" | 5 | 3.71 | W. W. Norton Company | Paperback | 224 | 2003 | 1981 | 2015/11/21 | owned | owned (#147) | read | 1 | 0 | ||||||||||||
| 241887 | Sex and Rockets: The Occult World of Jack Parsons | John Carter | Carter, John | Robert Anton Wilson, Jack Whiteside Parsons, Aleister Crowley, Phyllis Seckler, Frank J. Malina | ="0922915970" | ="9780922915972" | 4 | 3.73 | Feral House | Paperback | 239 | 2005 | 1999 | 2015/11/21 | owned | owned (#157) | read | 1 | 0 | |||||||||||
| 12465118 | A Friendly Introduction to Number Theory | Joseph H. Silverman | Silverman, Joseph H. | ="0321816196" | ="9780321816191" | 0 | 4.35 | Pearson Education | Hardcover | 409 | 2012 | 2013 | 2016/07/05 | owned | owned (#219) | read | 1 | 0 | ||||||||||||
| 6447374 | The Coming Insurrection | Comité invisible | invisible, Comité | ="1584350806" | ="9781584350804" | 0 | 3.77 | Semiotext(e) | Paperback | 135 | 2009 | 2007 | 2016/07/05 | owned, to-read | owned (#212), to-read (#62) | to-read | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||||
| 288752 | The Sixties: From Memory to History | David Farber | Farber, David | ="0807844624" | ="9780807844625" | 0 | 3.65 | University of North Carolina Press | Paperback | 342 | 1994 | 1994 | 2016/07/05 | owned, to-read | owned (#211), to-read (#61) | to-read | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||||
| 15818098 | Encountering America: Humanistic Psychology, Sixties Culture, and the Shaping of the Modern Self | Jessica Grogan | Grogan, Jessica | ="0061834769" | ="9780061834769" | 0 | 3.70 | Harper Perennial | Paperback | 432 | 2012 | 2012 | 2016/07/05 | owned, to-read | owned (#210), to-read (#60) | to-read | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||||
| 13386211 | Plotto: The Classic Plot Suggestion Tool for Writers of Creative Fiction | William Wallace Cook | Cook, William Wallace | Robert Plamondon | ="0981928471" | ="9780981928470" | 0 | 3.66 | Norton Creek Press | Paperback | 308 | 2011 | 1928 | 2016/07/05 | owned, to-read | owned (#209), to-read (#59) | to-read | 0 | 0 | |||||||||||
| 18461678 | The Six-Gun Tarot (Golgotha, #1) | R.S. Belcher | Belcher, R.S. | ="" | ="9781781169216" | 0 | 3.78 | Titan Books | Paperback | 397 | 2013 | 2013 | 2016/07/05 | owned, to-read | owned (#208), to-read (#58) | to-read | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||||
| 13227839 | The Invisibles | Grant Morrison | Morrison, Grant | Steve Yeowell, Jill Thompson, Phil Jimenez, Philip Bond | ="1401234593" | ="9781401234591" | 0 | 4.39 | Vertigo (DC Comics) | Hardcover | 1536 | 2012 | 2000 | 2016/07/05 | owned, to-read | owned (#207), to-read (#57) | to-read | 0 | 0 | |||||||||||
| 569775 | The Art of Electronics | Paul Horowitz | Horowitz, Paul | Winfield Hill | ="0521370957" | ="9780521370950" | 0 | 4.35 | Cambridge University Press | Hardcover | 1152 | 1989 | 1980 | 2016/07/05 | owned, to-read | owned (#206), to-read (#56) | to-read | 0 | 0 | |||||||||||
| 21480734 | Dataclysm: Who We Are (When We Think No One's Looking) | Christian Rudder | Rudder, Christian | ="0385347375" | ="9780385347372" | 5 | 3.74 | Crown | Hardcover | 304 | 2014 | 2014 | 2016/07/05 | 2016/02/06 | owned | owned (#173) | read | 1 | 0 | |||||||||||
| 27209408 | The Nightmare Stacks (Laundry Files, #7) | Charles Stross | Stross, Charles | ="0425281191" | ="9780425281192" | 4 | 4.23 | Ace | Hardcover | 385 | 2016 | 2016 | 2016/07/05 | owned | owned (#175) | read | 1 | 0 | ||||||||||||
| 17469637 | Rx: A Tale of Electronegativity | Robert Brockway | Brockway, Robert | ="1482520214" | ="9781482520217" | 5 | 3.88 | Createspace Independent Publishing Platform | Trade Paperback | 340 | 2013 | 2012 | 2016/07/05 | owned | owned (#199) | read | 1 | 0 | ||||||||||||
| 332270 | Altered Carbon (Takeshi Kovacs, #1) | Richard K. Morgan | Morgan, Richard K. | ="0345457684" | ="9780345457691" | 5 | 4.05 | Del Rey | Mass Market Paperback | 375 | 2003 | 2002 | 2016/07/05 | owned | owned (#198) | read | 1 | 0 | ||||||||||||
| 1833198 | Rim: A Novel of Virtual Reality | Alexander Besher | Besher, Alexander | ="0062585274" | ="9780062585271" | 5 | 3.12 | HarperCollins Publishers | Paperback | 357 | 1994 | 1994 | 2016/07/05 | owned | owned (#190) | read | 1 | 0 | ||||||||||||
| 1274984 | The Mechanical Bride: Folklore of Industrial Man | Marshall McLuhan | McLuhan, Marshall | ="1584232439" | ="9781584232438" | 5 | 4.02 | Gingko Press | Paperback | 157 | 2008 | 1951 | 2016/07/05 | owned | owned (#203) | read | 1 | 0 | ||||||||||||
| 228047 | Mind Hacks: Tips & Tricks for Using Your Brain | Tom Stafford | Stafford, Tom | Matt Webb | ="0596007795" | ="9780596007799" | 4 | 3.74 | O'Reilly Media | Paperback | 396 | 2004 | 2004 | 2016/05/04 | owned | owned (#171) | read | 1 | 0 | |||||||||||
| 18194 | The Cyberiad | Stanisław Lem | Lem, Stanisław | Michael Kandel, Daniel Mróz | ="0156027593" | ="9780156027595" | 0 | 4.18 | Harcourt | Paperback | 295 | 2002 | 1965 | 2016/07/05 | owned, currently-reading | owned (#186), currently-reading (#11) | currently-reading | 1 | 0 | |||||||||||
| 27539 | On Intelligence | Jeff Hawkins | Hawkins, Jeff | Sandra Blakeslee | ="0805078533" | ="9780805078534" | 4 | 4.11 | St. Martin's Griffin | Paperback | 261 | 2005 | 2004 | 2015/11/21 | owned, currently-reading | owned (#136), currently-reading (#9) | currently-reading | 1 | 0 | |||||||||||
| 349 | The Moon is a Harsh Mistress | Robert A. Heinlein | Heinlein, Robert A. | ="0312863551" | ="9780312863555" | 0 | 4.16 | Orb Books | Paperback | 382 | 1997 | 1966 | 2016/07/05 | owned, currently-reading | owned (#200), currently-reading (#10) | currently-reading | 1 | 0 | ||||||||||||
| 384579 | Non-Stop | Brian W. Aldiss | Aldiss, Brian W. | ="1585676837" | ="9781585676835" | 5 | 3.87 | Harry N. Abrams | Paperback | 241 | 2005 | 1958 | 2015/11/21 | owned | owned (#58) | read | 1 | 0 | ||||||||||||
| 6811283 | The City & the City | China Miéville | Miéville, China | ="034549752X" | ="9780345497529" | 0 | 3.92 | Ballantine Books | Paperback | 329 | 2010 | 2009 | 2016/07/05 | owned, to-read | owned (#205), to-read (#55) | to-read | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||||
| 761156 | Mumbo Jumbo | Ishmael Reed | Reed, Ishmael | ="0684824779" | ="9780684824772" | 0 | 3.83 | Scribner | Paperback | 224 | 1996 | 1972 | 2015/12/21 | to-read, owned | to-read (#27), owned (#204) | to-read | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||||
| 3265644 | Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach | Stuart Russell | Russell, Stuart | Peter Norvig | ="0136042597" | ="9780136042594" | 0 | 4.18 | Pearson | Paperback | 1132 | 2009 | 1994 | 2016/07/05 | owned, to-read | owned (#197), to-read (#54) | to-read | 0 | 0 | |||||||||||
| 544500 | Modern Operating Systems | Andrew S. Tanenbaum | Tanenbaum, Andrew S. | ="0135881870" | ="9780135881873" | 0 | 4.12 | Prentice Hall | Hardcover | 728 | 1992 | 1992 | 2016/07/05 | owned, to-read | owned (#196), to-read (#53) | to-read | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||||
| 13651 | The Dispossessed (Hainish Cycle, #6) | Ursula K. Le Guin | Guin, Ursula K. Le | ="" | ="" | 0 | 4.20 | Harper Voyager | Paperback | 387 | 1994 | 1974 | 2016/07/05 | owned, to-read | owned (#194), to-read (#52) | to-read | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||||
| 217678 | The Klingon Dictionary | Marc Okrand | Okrand, Marc | ="067174559X" | ="9780671745592" | 0 | 3.92 | Pocket Books | Paperback | 192 | 2008 | 1985 | 2016/07/05 | owned, to-read | owned (#193), to-read (#51) | to-read | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||||
| 104746 | The New Hacker's Dictionary | Eric S. Raymond | Raymond, Eric S. | ="0262680920" | ="9780262680929" | 0 | 4.09 | MIT Press | Paperback | 568 | 1996 | 1991 | 2016/07/05 | owned, to-read | owned (#192), to-read (#50) | to-read | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||||
| 7768436 | Low Intensity Warfare: Counterinsurgency, Proinsurgency, And Antiterrorism In The Eighties | Michael T. Klare | Klare, Michael T. | Peter Kornbluh | ="0394746538" | ="9780394746531" | 0 | 3.27 | Pantheon Books | Paperback | 250 | 1987 | 1987 | 2016/07/05 | owned, to-read | owned (#191), to-read (#49) | to-read | 0 | 0 | |||||||||||
| 20828372 | Metrophage | Richard Kadrey | Kadrey, Richard | ="0062334484" | ="9780062334480" | 0 | 3.47 | Harper Voyager | Paperback | 320 | 2014 | 1988 | 2016/07/05 | owned, to-read | owned (#189), to-read (#48) | to-read | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||||
| 12395170 | Bolo'bolo | P.M. | P.M., P.M. | ="1570272417" | ="9781570272417" | 0 | 4.05 | Autonomedia/Ardent Press | Paperback | 178 | 2011 | 1984 | 2016/07/05 | owned, to-read | owned (#188), to-read (#47) | to-read | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||||
| 20685483 | Shovel Ready (Spademan, #1) | Adam Sternbergh | Sternbergh, Adam | ="0385349017" | ="9780385349017" | 0 | 3.47 | Broadway Books | Paperback | 272 | 2014 | 2014 | 2016/07/05 | owned, to-read | owned (#187), to-read (#46) | to-read | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||||
| 6782345 | The Numerati | Stephen Baker | Baker, Stephen | ="0547247931" | ="9780547247939" | 0 | 3.43 | Mariner Books | Paperback | 256 | 2009 | 2008 | 2016/07/05 | owned, to-read | owned (#185), to-read (#45) | to-read | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||||
| 23418603 | Spam Nation: The Inside Story of Organized Cybercrime-From Global Epidemic to Your Front Door | Brian Krebs | Krebs, Brian | ="1492603236" | ="9781492603238" | 0 | 3.72 | Sourcebooks | Paperback | 320 | 2015 | 2014 | 2016/07/05 | owned, to-read | owned (#184), to-read (#44) | to-read | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||||
| 21856367 | The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution | Walter Isaacson | Isaacson, Walter | ="147670869X" | ="9781476708690" | 0 | 4.09 | Simon and Schuster | Hardcover | 542 | 2014 | 2014 | 2016/07/05 | owned, to-read | owned (#183), to-read (#43) | to-read | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||||
| 23168751 | Echopraxia (Firefall, #2) | Peter Watts | Watts, Peter | ="0765328038" | ="9780765328038" | 0 | 3.87 | Tor Books / Tom Doherty Associates | Trade Paperback | 383 | 2015 | 2014 | 2016/07/05 | owned, to-read | owned (#182), to-read (#42) | to-read | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||||
| 22633418 | Seven More Languages in Seven Weeks | Bruce A. Tate | Tate, Bruce A. | Ian Dees, Frederic Daoud, Jack Moffitt | ="1941222153" | ="9781941222157" | 0 | 3.63 | O′Reilly | Paperback | 350 | 2014 | 2014 | 2016/07/05 | owned, to-read | owned (#180), to-read (#41) | to-read | 0 | 0 | |||||||||||
| 739561 | Bridges to Infinity: The Human side of Mathematics | Michael Guillén | Guillén, Michael | ="0874773458" | ="9780874773453" | 0 | 4.10 | Tarcher | Paperback | 216 | 1985 | 1983 | 2016/07/05 | to-read, owned | to-read (#40), owned (#179) | to-read | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||||
| 7797217 | The Mind's Eye | Oliver Sacks | Sacks, Oliver | ="0307272087" | ="9780307272089" | 0 | 3.91 | Knopf Publishing Group | Hardcover | 263 | 2010 | 2010 | 2016/07/05 | owned, to-read | owned (#178), to-read (#39) | to-read | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||||
| 17351 | A Brief History of Time | Stephen Hawking | Hawking, Stephen | Carl Sagan | ="055305340X" | ="9780553053401" | 0 | 4.18 | Bantam Books | Hardcover | 198 | 1988 | 1988 | 2016/07/05 | owned, to-read | owned (#177), to-read (#38) | to-read | 0 | 0 | |||||||||||
| 208383 | The Cuckoo's Egg: Tracking a Spy Through the Maze of Computer Espionage | Clifford Stoll | Stoll, Clifford | ="0385249462" | ="9780385249461" | 0 | 4.24 | Doubleday | Hardcover | 326 | 1989 | 1989 | 2016/07/05 | owned, to-read | owned (#176), to-read (#37) | to-read | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||||
| 103446 | Statistics Hacks: Tips & Tools for Measuring the World and Beating the Odds | Bruce B. Frey | Frey, Bruce B. | ="0596101643" | ="9780596101640" | 0 | 3.58 | O'Reilly Media | Paperback | 358 | 2006 | 1980 | 2016/05/08 | to-read | to-read (#36) | to-read | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||||
| 3063393 | Pragmatic Thinking and Learning: Refactor Your Wetware | Andy Hunt | Hunt, Andy | ="1934356050" | ="9781934356050" | 0 | 4.12 | Pragmatic Bookshelf | Paperback | 251 | 2008 | 2008 | 2016/05/08 | to-read | to-read (#35) | to-read | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||||
| 10370455 | Mindhacker: 60 Tips, Tricks, and Games to Take Your Mind to the Next Level | Ron Hale-Evans | Hale-Evans, Ron | Marty Hale-Evans | ="1118007522" | ="9781118007525" | 4 | 3.76 | Wiley | Paperback | 416 | 2011 | 2011 | 2016/05/04 | 2016/05/04 | owned | owned (#172) | read | 1 | 0 | ||||||||||
| 24886729 | Stranger Than We Can Imagine: Making Sense of the Twentieth Century | John Higgs | Higgs, John | J.M.R. Higgs | ="1593766262" | ="9781593766269" | 5 | 4.23 | Soft Skull Press | Paperback | 356 | 2015 | 2015 | 2016/03/30 | 2016/03/25 | owned | owned (#168) | read | 1 | 0 | ||||||||||
| 497002 | Sudden Glory: Laughter as Subversive History | Barry Sanders | Sanders, Barry | ="0807062057" | ="9780807062050" | 0 | 3.88 | Beacon Press | Paperback | 352 | 1996 | 1995 | 2016/03/25 | owned, to-read | owned (#169), to-read (#34) | to-read | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||||
| 5933841 | Inherent Vice | Thomas Pynchon | Pynchon, Thomas | ="1594202249" | ="9781594202247" | 0 | 3.75 | The Penguin Press | Hardcover | 369 | 2009 | 2009 | 2016/02/17 | currently-reading | currently-reading (#8) | currently-reading | 1 | 0 | ||||||||||||
| 9597 | Player Piano | Kurt Vonnegut Jr. | Jr., Kurt Vonnegut | ="0385333781" | ="9780385333788" | 0 | 3.88 | Dial Press | Paperback | 341 | 2006 | 1952 | 2016/02/06 | to-read | to-read (#33) | to-read | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||||
| 1766063 | The Zen Gun | Barrington J. Bayley | Bayley, Barrington J. | ="0879978511" | ="9780879978518" | 0 | 3.42 | DAW | Paperback | 159 | 1983 | 1983 | 2016/01/18 | to-read | to-read (#32) | to-read | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||||
| 13 | The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #1-5) | Douglas Adams | Adams, Douglas | ="0345453743" | ="9780345453747" | 4 | 4.36 | Del Rey Books | Paperback | 815 | 2002 | 1996 | 2016/01/15 | owned | owned (#167) | read | 1 | 0 | ||||||||||||
| 20501606 | Futuristic Violence and Fancy Suits (Zoey Ashe, #1) | David Wong | Wong, David | ="1250040191" | ="9781250040190" | 5 | 3.82 | Thomas Dunne Books | Hardcover | 384 | 2015 | 2015 | 2016/01/15 | 2015/12/23 | owned | owned (#165) | read | Imagine a cross between Gibson's The Peripheral and Akira, only funny. You'll get pretty close to Futuristic Violence and Fancy Suits. Wong's major flaw -- which damaged how much I enjoyed This Book is Full of Spiders -- is a tendency to be preachy whenever he touches upon a topic he particularly likes (like psychology, sociology, or morality). Here, he minimizes how much this takes the reader out of the action by tunneling his preachy monologues through the character of Will Blackwater (rather than the protagonist, who was never a good match for those monologues in the John Dies at the End books) and making the rest of the characters take on an extra comic-relief element. As a result, I found this book to be a lot more enjoyable than his last. |
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| 135479 | Cat's Cradle | Kurt Vonnegut Jr. | Jr., Kurt Vonnegut | ="0140285601" | ="9780140285604" | 4 | 4.16 | Penguin | Paperback | 179 | 1999 | 1963 | 2016/01/09 | read | 1 | 0 | ||||||||||||||
| 48624 | Cosmic Trigger: Die letzten Geheimnisse der Illuminaten oder An den Grenzen des erweiterten Bewusstseins | Robert Anton Wilson | Wilson, Robert Anton | ="3499156490" | ="9783499156496" | 4 | 4.27 | Rowohlt Taschenbuch Verlag GmbH | 308 | 1995 | 1977 | 2016/01/04 | owned | owned (#166) | read | 1 | 0 | |||||||||||||
| 89937 | Principia Discordia ● Or ● How I Found Goddess and What I Did to Her When I Found Her: The Magnum Opiate of Malaclypse the Younger | Gregory Hill | Hill, Gregory | ="1559500409" | ="9781559500401" | 4 | 4.27 | Loompanics Unlimited | Paperback | 100 | 1980 | 1965 | 2016/01/04 | read | 1 | 0 | ||||||||||||||
| 8704823 | Slaughterhouse-Five | Kurt Vonnegut Jr. | Jr., Kurt Vonnegut | ="" | ="" | 4 | 4.08 | RosettaBooks | Kindle Edition | 285 | 2010 | 1969 | 2016/01/03 | read | 1 | 0 | ||||||||||||||
| 13542853 | Trust Me, I'm Lying: Confessions of a Media Manipulator | Ryan Holiday | Holiday, Ryan | ="159184553X" | ="9781591845539" | 4 | 3.89 | Portfolio | Hardcover | 259 | 2012 | 2012 | 2015/12/30 | 2015/12/29 | owned | owned (#163) | read | Ryan Holiday is definitely an asshole, and his attempt to gain the moral high ground by coming clean about his practices fail because of the excess of glee he takes in describing his exploits. That said, he can almost certainly be forgiven, because he really does expose a lot here. The book is a quick read, entertaining, and to the point. It's also mercifully short; if it were a little longer I think I would have had to quit reading it because the smugness was smothering. I highly recommend this book to anyone who can read and uses the internet. |
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| 238558 | A New Kind of Science | Stephen Wolfram | Wolfram, Stephen | ="1579550088" | ="9781579550080" | 3 | 3.59 | Wolfram Media | Hardcover | 1264 | 2002 | 1997 | 2015/12/29 | owned | owned (#164) | read | When I read this book, shortly after it came out, I was very impressed. It covers a lot of interesting subjects, and the concept of cellular automata was new to me. Later, I realized that most of the research in the book wasn't new, wasn't Wolfram's (or even belonging to Stephen Wolfram Inc., the actual author of the book), and often wasn't even properly science. I still recommend the book, because it's full of interesting ideas. Just keep in mind that, to a certain extent, the way the content is presented is in service of an unwarranted ego trip. If you are unfamiliar with the subject matter, just assume that anything that Wolfram takes credit for in the book was actually invented or discovered at least twenty years earlier by somebody else. |
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| 243725 | Out of Control: The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems, and the Economic World | Kevin Kelly | Kelly, Kevin | ="0201483408" | ="9780201483406" | 3 | 4.24 | Basic Books | Paperback | 528 | 1995 | 1992 | 2015/12/27 | owned | owned (#162) | read | 1 | 0 | ||||||||||||
| 326790 | The Society of Mind | Marvin Minsky | Minsky, Marvin | ="0671657135" | ="9780671657130" | 0 | 4.03 | Simon Schuster | Paperback | 336 | 1988 | 1985 | 2015/12/27 | to-read | to-read (#31) | to-read | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||||
| 16111986 | The Best Bizarro Fiction of the Decade | Cameron Pierce | Pierce, Cameron | Joe R. Lansdale, Aimee Bender, Bentley Little, Ben Loory, Amelia Gray, Cory Goodfellow, Alissa Nutting, Andrea Kneeland | ="1621050564" | ="9781621050568" | 0 | 4.17 | Eraserhead Press | Paperback | 400 | 2012 | 2012 | 2015/12/23 | to-read | to-read (#30) | to-read | 0 | 0 | |||||||||||
| 21413662 | What If? Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions | Randall Munroe | Munroe, Randall | ="0544272994" | ="9780544272996" | 0 | 4.14 | Houghton Mifflin Harcourt | Hardcover | 303 | 2014 | 2014 | 2015/12/23 | owned, to-read | owned (#161), to-read (#29) | to-read | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||||
| 43017 | Yellow Back Radio Broke-Down | Ishmael Reed | Reed, Ishmael | ="1564782387" | ="9781564782380" | 0 | 3.81 | Dalkey Archive Press | Paperback | 177 | 2000 | 1969 | 2015/12/21 | to-read | to-read (#28) | to-read | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||||
| 350 | Stranger in a Strange Land | Robert A. Heinlein | Heinlein, Robert A. | ="0441788386" | ="9780441788385" | 4 | 3.92 | Ace | Paperback | 525 | 1991 | 1961 | 2015/12/21 | owned | owned (#160) | read | 1 | 0 | ||||||||||||
| 66476 | Behemoth: β-Max (Rifters #3.1) | Peter Watts | Watts, Peter | ="0765307219" | ="9780765307217" | 0 | 3.76 | Tor Books | Hardcover | 304 | 2004 | 2004 | 2015/12/13 | to-read | to-read (#26) | to-read | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||||
| 66477 | Maelstrom (Rifters, #2) | Peter Watts | Watts, Peter | ="0812566793" | ="9780812566796" | 0 | 3.83 | Tor Science Fiction | Paperback | 384 | 2002 | 2001 | 2015/12/13 | to-read | to-read (#25) | to-read | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||||
| 66479 | Starfish (Rifters, #1) | Peter Watts | Watts, Peter | ="0812575857" | ="9780812575859" | 5 | 3.97 | Tor Science Fiction | Paperback | 384 | 2000 | 1999 | 2015/12/13 | read | 1 | 0 | ||||||||||||||
| 48484 | Blindsight (Firefall, #1) | Peter Watts | Watts, Peter | ="0765312182" | ="9780765312181" | 5 | 4.02 | Tor Books | Hardcover | 384 | 2006 | 2006 | 2015/12/13 | read | 1 | 0 | ||||||||||||||
| 7954936 | What Technology Wants | Kevin Kelly | Kelly, Kevin | ="0670022152" | ="9780670022151" | 3 | 3.71 | Viking Pr | Hardcover | 406 | 2010 | 2010 | 2015/12/13 | read | Kevin Kelly always irritates me, because he has a tendency to be absolutely correct in his general arguments while making a host of specific supporting arguments that are weak or incorrect. What Technology Wants is no exception, although it's not quite as bad as Out Of Control in terms of fact checking. It's more enjoyable if you pretend that it isn't supposed to be convincing. | 1 | 0 | |||||||||||||
| 1940959 | Secret Cipher of the Ufonauts | Allen Greenfield | Greenfield, Allen | ="1881532046" | ="9781881532040" | 4 | 3.90 | Illuminet Pr | Paperback | 119 | 1994 | 1994 | 2015/11/29 | read | 1 | 0 | ||||||||||||||
| 8935689 | Consider Phlebas (Culture #1) | Iain M. Banks | Banks, Iain M. | ="1857231384" | ="9781857231380" | 5 | 3.86 | Orbit | Paperback | 471 | 1988 | 1987 | 2015/11/21 | 2015/11/21 | owned | owned (#52) | read | 1 | 0 | |||||||||||
| 523212 | Join My Cult! | James Curcio | Curcio, James | ="1561841730" | ="9781561841738" | 4 | 3.44 | New Falcon Publications | Paperback | 284 | 2004 | 2004 | 2015/11/21 | owned | owned (#159) | read | 1 | 0 | ||||||||||||
| 10464970 | The Immanence Of Myth | James Curcio | Curcio, James | Rowan Tepper | ="1907810080" | ="9781907810084" | 4 | 3.95 | Weaponized | Paperback | 304 | 2011 | 2011 | 2015/11/21 | owned | owned (#158) | read | 1 | 0 | |||||||||||
| 6405024 | The Art of Memetics (Pirate Edition) | Wes Unruh | Unruh, Wes | Edward O. Wilson, Joseph Matheny | ="" | ="" | 5 | 4.45 | 2015/11/21 | read | 1 | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||
| 2931216 | New Lands | Charles Fort | Fort, Charles | ="0722136277" | ="9780722136270" | 4 | 3.63 | Hazell Watson & Viney Ltd | Paperback | 205 | 1974 | 1925 | 2015/11/21 | owned | owned (#156) | read | 1 | 0 | ||||||||||||
| 2194018 | Wild Talents | Charles Fort | Fort, Charles | ="1596050292" | ="9781596050297" | 5 | 3.97 | Cosimo Classics | Paperback | 348 | 2004 | 1932 | 2015/11/21 | owned | owned (#155) | read | 1 | 0 | ||||||||||||
| 536799 | Lo! | Charles Fort | Fort, Charles | ="1596050284" | ="9781596050280" | 5 | 3.91 | Cosimo Classics | Paperback | 416 | 2004 | 1931 | 2015/11/21 | owned | owned (#154) | read | 1 | 0 | ||||||||||||
| 284019 | The Book of the Damned | Charles Fort | Fort, Charles | ="1585092789" | ="9781585092789" | 3 | 3.65 | Book Tree | Paperback | 228 | 2006 | 1919 | 2015/11/21 | owned | owned (#153) | read | 1 | 0 | ||||||||||||
| 15737151 | Lost At Sea: The Jon Ronson Mysteries | Jon Ronson | Ronson, Jon | ="1594631375" | ="9781594631375" | 2 | 3.97 | Riverhead Hardcover | Hardcover | 400 | 2012 | 2012 | 2015/11/21 | owned | owned (#152) | read | 1 | 0 | ||||||||||||
| 1823 | Them: Adventures with Extremists | Jon Ronson | Ronson, Jon | ="0743233212" | ="9780743233217" | 3 | 3.96 | Simon Schuster | Paperback | 336 | 2003 | 2001 | 2015/11/21 | owned | owned (#151) | read | 1 | 0 | ||||||||||||
| 12391521 | The Psychopath Test: A Journey Through the Madness Industry | Jon Ronson | Ronson, Jon | ="1594485755" | ="9781594485756" | 3 | 3.94 | Riverhead Books | Paperback | 275 | 2012 | 2011 | 2015/11/21 | owned | owned (#150) | read | 1 | 0 | ||||||||||||
| 1824 | The Men Who Stare at Goats | Jon Ronson | Ronson, Jon | ="0743270606" | ="9780743270601" | 4 | 3.62 | Simon Schuster | Paperback | 259 | 2006 | 2004 | 2015/11/21 | owned | owned (#149) | read | 1 | 0 | ||||||||||||
| 43717 | Crooked Little Vein | Warren Ellis | Ellis, Warren | ="0060723939" | ="9780060723934" | 5 | 3.82 | William Morrow | Hardcover | 288 | 2007 | 2007 | 2015/11/21 | owned | owned (#148) | read | 1 | 0 | ||||||||||||
| 13538762 | The Rapture of the Nerds | Cory Doctorow | Doctorow, Cory | Charles Stross | ="0765329107" | ="9780765329103" | 3 | 3.38 | Tor Books | Hardcover | 351 | 2012 | 2012 | 2015/11/21 | owned | owned (#146) | read | 1 | 0 | |||||||||||
| 29588 | Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town | Cory Doctorow | Doctorow, Cory | ="0765312808" | ="9780765312808" | 5 | 3.51 | Tor Books | Paperback | 315 | 2006 | 2005 | 2015/11/21 | read | 1 | 0 | ||||||||||||||
| 6422238 | Makers | Cory Doctorow | Doctorow, Cory | ="0765312794" | ="9780765312792" | 3 | 3.71 | Tor Books | Hardcover | 416 | 2009 | 2009 | 2015/11/21 | read | 1 | 0 | ||||||||||||||
| 29587 | Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom | Cory Doctorow | Doctorow, Cory | ="076530953X" | ="9780765309532" | 5 | 3.56 | Tor Books | Paperback | 208 | 2003 | 2003 | 2015/11/21 | read | 1 | 0 | ||||||||||||||
| 954674 | Little Brother (Little Brother, #1) | Cory Doctorow | Doctorow, Cory | ="0765319853" | ="9780765319852" | 4 | 3.93 | Tor Books | Hardcover | 382 | 2008 | 2008 | 2015/11/21 | read | 1 | 0 | ||||||||||||||
| 29589 | Eastern Standard Tribe | Cory Doctorow | Doctorow, Cory | ="0765310457" | ="9780765310453" | 5 | 3.48 | Tor Books | Paperback | 223 | 2005 | 2004 | 2015/11/21 | owned | owned (#145) | read | 1 | 0 | ||||||||||||
| 375802 | Ender's Game (Ender's Saga, #1) | Orson Scott Card | Card, Orson Scott | Stefan Rudnicki, Harlan Ellison | ="0812550706" | ="9780812550702" | 4 | 4.30 | Macmillan Audio | Audiobook | 324 | 2004 | 1985 | 2015/11/21 | owned | owned (#144) | read | 1 | 0 | |||||||||||
| 12924261 | This Book Is Full of Spiders (John Dies at the End, #2) | David Wong | Wong, David | ="0312546343" | ="9780312546342" | 3 | 4.26 | St. Martin’s Press | Hardcover | 406 | 2012 | 2012 | 2015/11/21 | owned | owned (#143) | read | 1 | 0 | ||||||||||||
| 1857440 | John Dies at the End (John Dies at the End, #1) | David Wong | Wong, David | ="0978970764" | ="9780978970765" | 5 | 3.90 | Permuted Press | Paperback | 362 | 2007 | 2007 | 2015/11/21 | owned | owned (#142) | read | 1 | 0 | ||||||||||||
| 23168833 | The Unnoticeables (Vicious Circuit, #1) | Robert Brockway | Brockway, Robert | ="076537966X" | ="9780765379665" | 4 | 3.66 | Tor Books | Hardcover | 288 | 2015 | 2015 | 2015/11/21 | owned | owned (#141) | read | 1 | 0 | ||||||||||||
| 17162842 | Rx: A Tale of Electronegativity | Robert Brockway | Brockway, Robert | ="" | ="" | 5 | 3.88 | Brockwar Press: The Fightin'est Press in the West | ebook | 269 | 2012 | 2012 | 2015/11/21 | owned | owned (#140) | read | 1 | 0 | ||||||||||||
| 21611 | The Forever War (The Forever War, #1) | Joe Haldeman | Haldeman, Joe | ="0060510862" | ="9780060510862" | 5 | 4.14 | Voyager | Paperback | 278 | 2003 | 1974 | 2015/11/21 | owned | owned (#139) | read | 1 | 0 | ||||||||||||
| 6552924 | Occult America: The Secret History of How Mysticism Shaped Our Nation | Mitch Horowitz | Horowitz, Mitch | ="0553806750" | ="9780553806755" | 4 | 3.53 | Bantam | Hardcover | 291 | 2009 | 2009 | 2015/11/21 | owned | owned (#138) | read | 1 | 0 | ||||||||||||
| 20527133 | Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies | Nick Bostrom | Bostrom, Nick | ="0199678111" | ="9780199678112" | 0 | 3.87 | Oxford University Press, USA | Hardcover | 328 | 2014 | 2014 | 2015/11/21 | to-read | to-read (#24) | to-read | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||||
| 13368363 | A Song Called Youth | John Shirley | Shirley, John | ="1607013304" | ="9781607013303" | 4 | 4.24 | Prime Books | Paperback | 798 | 2012 | 2012 | 2015/11/21 | owned | owned (#135) | read | 1 | 0 | ||||||||||||
| 10838202 | Fanged Noumena: Collected Writings, 1987-2007 | Nick Land | Land, Nick | Ray Brassier, Robin Mackay | ="095530878X" | ="9780955308789" | 0 | 3.99 | Urbanomic | Paperback | 666 | 2011 | 2011 | 2015/11/21 | to-read | to-read (#23) | to-read | 0 | 0 | |||||||||||
| 118317 | Anti-Oedipus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia | Gilles Deleuze | Deleuze, Gilles | Félix Guattari | ="0816612250" | ="9780816612253" | 0 | 4.13 | University of Minnesota Press | Paperback | 400 | 1983 | 1972 | 2015/11/21 | to-read | to-read (#22) | to-read | 0 | 0 | |||||||||||
| 15802693 | Who Owns the Future? | Jaron Lanier | Lanier, Jaron | ="1451654967" | ="9781451654967" | 0 | 3.77 | Simon & Schuster | Hardcover | 367 | 2013 | 2013 | 2015/11/21 | currently-reading, owned | currently-reading (#7), owned (#134) | currently-reading | 1 | 0 | ||||||||||||
| 6683549 | You Are Not a Gadget | Jaron Lanier | Lanier, Jaron | ="0307269647" | ="9780307269645" | 4 | 3.56 | Alfred A. Knopf | Hardcover | 221 | 2010 | 2010 | 2015/11/21 | owned | owned (#133) | read | 1 | 0 | ||||||||||||
| 627994 | Cyberia: Life in the Trenches of Cyberspace | Douglas Rushkoff | Rushkoff, Douglas | ="1903083249" | ="9781903083246" | 4 | 3.76 | Clinamen Press Ltd. | Paperback | 272 | 2002 | 1993 | 2015/11/21 | read | 1 | 0 | ||||||||||||||
| 472068 | Media Virus!: Hidden Agendas in Popular Culture | Douglas Rushkoff | Rushkoff, Douglas | ="0345397746" | ="9780345397744" | 0 | 3.88 | Ballantine Books | Paperback | 368 | 1996 | 1994 | 2015/11/21 | to-read | to-read (#21) | to-read | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||||
| 3378 | Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture | Douglas Coupland | Coupland, Douglas | ="0349108390" | ="9780349108391" | 0 | 3.73 | Abacus | Paperback | 211 | 1996 | 1991 | 2015/11/21 | to-read | to-read (#20) | to-read | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||||
| 3381 | Hey Nostradamus! | Douglas Coupland | Coupland, Douglas | ="1582344159" | ="9781582344157" | 0 | 3.71 | Bloomsbury Publishing PLC | Paperback | 244 | 2004 | 2003 | 2015/11/21 | to-read, owned | to-read (#19), owned (#132) | to-read | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||||
| 9520859 | Marshall McLuhan: You Know Nothing of My Work! | Douglas Coupland | Coupland, Douglas | ="1935633163" | ="9781935633167" | 5 | 3.92 | Atlas | Hardcover | 216 | 2010 | 2010 | 2015/11/21 | read | 1 | 0 | ||||||||||||||
| 2748 | Microserfs | Douglas Coupland | Coupland, Douglas | ="0060987049" | ="9780060987046" | 5 | 3.88 | Harper Perennial | Paperback | 371 | 1995 | 1995 | 2015/11/21 | read | 1 | 0 | ||||||||||||||
| 2800 | The Mechanical Bride: Folklore of Industrial Man | Marshall McLuhan | McLuhan, Marshall | Philip B. Meggs | ="1584230509" | ="9781584230502" | 5 | 4.02 | Gingko Press | Hardcover | 160 | 2002 | 1951 | 2015/11/21 | owned | owned (#131) | read | 1 | 0 | |||||||||||
| 440463 | The Gutenberg Galaxy: The Making of Typographic Man | Marshall McLuhan | McLuhan, Marshall | ="0802060412" | ="9780802060419" | 4 | 4.14 | University of Toronto Press | Paperback | 294 | 1962 | 1962 | 2015/11/21 | owned | owned (#130) | read | 1 | 0 | ||||||||||||
| 126274 | Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man | Marshall McLuhan | McLuhan, Marshall | Lewis H. Lapham | ="0262631598" | ="9780262631594" | 5 | 4.11 | The MIT Press | Paperback | 392 | 1994 | 1964 | 2015/11/21 | owned | owned (#129) | read | 1 | 0 | |||||||||||
| 225117 | War and Peace in the Global Village | Marshall McLuhan | McLuhan, Marshall | Quentin Fiore | ="1584230746" | ="9781584230748" | 5 | 3.98 | Gingko Press | Paperback | 192 | 2001 | 1968 | 2015/11/21 | read | 1 | 0 | |||||||||||||
| 6617037 | Debt: The First 5,000 Years | David Graeber | Graeber, David | ="1933633867" | ="9781933633862" | 5 | 4.17 | Melville House Publishing | Hardcover | 534 | 2011 | 2011 | 2015/11/21 | owned | owned (#128) | read | 1 | 0 | ||||||||||||
| 1013322 | Did Someone Say Totalitarianism?: 5 Interventions in the (Mis)Use of a Notion | Slavoj Žižek | Žižek, Slavoj | ="1859847927" | ="9781859847923" | 4 | 3.78 | Verso | Hardcover | 160 | 2001 | 2001 | 2015/11/21 | read | 1 | 0 | ||||||||||||||
| 29397 | Woken Furies (Takeshi Kovacs, #3) | Richard K. Morgan | Morgan, Richard K. | ="0345479718" | ="9780345479716" | 5 | 4.04 | Del Rey | Hardcover | 464 | 2005 | 2005 | 2015/11/21 | read | 1 | 0 | ||||||||||||||
| 279561 | Broken Angels (Takeshi Kovacs, #2) | Richard K. Morgan | Morgan, Richard K. | ="0345457714" | ="9780345457714" | 5 | 3.94 | Del Rey | Trade Paperback | 366 | 2004 | 2003 | 2015/11/21 | read | 1 | 0 | ||||||||||||||
| 40445 | Altered Carbon (Takeshi Kovacs, #1) | Richard K. Morgan | Morgan, Richard K. | ="0345457692" | ="" | 5 | 4.05 | Del Rey / Ballantine Books | Mass Market Paperback | 526 | 2006 | 2002 | 2015/11/21 | owned | owned (#127) | read | 1 | 0 | ||||||||||||
| 414999 | Childhood's End | Arthur C. Clarke | Clarke, Arthur C. | ="" | ="" | 4 | 4.11 | Del Rey Books | Mass Market Paperback | 224 | 1987 | 1953 | 2015/11/21 | owned | owned (#126) | read | 1 | 0 | ||||||||||||
| 70539 | 2010: Odyssey Two (Space Odyssey, #2) | Arthur C. Clarke | Clarke, Arthur C. | ="0345413970" | ="9780345413970" | 4 | 3.92 | Del Rey | Paperback | 320 | 1997 | 1982 | 2015/11/21 | owned | owned (#125) | read | 1 | 0 | ||||||||||||
| 11507833 | Nested Scrolls: The Autobiography of Rudolf von Bitter Rucker (Tom Doherty Associates Books) | Rudy Rucker | Rucker, Rudy | ="076532752X" | ="9780765327529" | 4 | 3.61 | Tor Books | Hardcover | 336 | 2011 | 2011 | 2015/11/21 | owned | owned (#124) | read | 1 | 0 | ||||||||||||
| 1928097 | Forbidden Science: Journals 1957-1969 | Jacques F. Vallée | Vallée, Jacques F. | ="1556431252" | ="9781556431258" | 0 | 4.39 | North Atlantic Books | Hardcover | 480 | 1993 | 1993 | 2015/11/21 | to-read | to-read (#18) | to-read | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||||
| 406343 | Confrontations: A Scientist's Search for Alien Contact | Jacques F. Vallée | Vallée, Jacques F. | ="0345365011" | ="9780345365019" | 4 | 4.29 | Ballantine Books (NYC) | Mass Market Paperback | 241 | 1991 | 1990 | 2015/11/21 | read | 1 | 0 | ||||||||||||||
| 1100402 | Revelations | Jacques F. Vallée | Vallée, Jacques F. | ="0345375661" | ="9780345375667" | 4 | 4.25 | Ballantine Books (NY) | Mass Market Paperback | 310 | 1992 | 1991 | 2015/11/21 | read | 1 | 0 | ||||||||||||||
| 406348 | Messengers of Deception: UFO Contacts and Cults | Jacques F. Vallée | Vallée, Jacques F. | ="0915904381" | ="9780915904389" | 4 | 4.26 | And/Or Press (Berkeley, CA) | Hardcover | 251 | 1979 | 1979 | 2015/11/21 | read | 1 | 0 | ||||||||||||||
| 406341 | Dimensions: A Casebook of Alien Contact | Jacques F. Vallée | Vallée, Jacques F. | Whitley Strieber | ="0345360028" | ="9780345360021" | 4 | 4.28 | Ballantine Books (NYC) | Mass Market Paperback | 311 | 1989 | 1988 | 2015/11/21 | read | 1 | 0 | |||||||||||||
| 406344 | Passport to Magonia: On UFOs, Folklore, and Parallel Worlds | Jacques F. Vallée | Vallée, Jacques F. | ="0809237962" | ="9780809237968" | 5 | 4.30 | McGraw-Hill/Contemporary | Paperback | 372 | 1993 | 1969 | 2015/11/21 | read | 1 | 0 | ||||||||||||||
| 98874 | Our Haunted Planet | John A. Keel | Keel, John A. | ="1880090163" | ="9781880090169" | 5 | 3.86 | Galde Press | Unknown Binding | 206 | 1999 | 1971 | 2015/11/21 | owned | owned (#122) | read | 1 | 0 | ||||||||||||
| 567682 | The Mothman Prophecies | John A. Keel | Keel, John A. | ="0765341972" | ="9780765341976" | 5 | 3.53 | Tor Books | Paperback | 272 | 2002 | 1975 | 2015/11/21 | owned | owned (#121) | read | 1 | 0 | ||||||||||||
| 226004 | A Deepness in the Sky (Zones of Thought, #2) | Vernor Vinge | Vinge, Vernor | ="0812536355" | ="9780812536355" | 0 | 4.32 | Tor Science Fiction | Mass Market Paperback | 775 | 2000 | 1999 | 2015/11/21 | currently-reading, owned | currently-reading (#6), owned (#120) | currently-reading | 1 | 0 | ||||||||||||
| 77711 | A Fire Upon the Deep (Zones of Thought, #1) | Vernor Vinge | Vinge, Vernor | ="0812515285" | ="9780812515282" | 4 | 4.14 | Tor Science Fiction | Mass Market Paperback | 613 | 2010 | 1992 | 2015/11/21 | owned | owned (#119) | read | 1 | 0 | ||||||||||||
| 102439 | Rainbows End | Vernor Vinge | Vinge, Vernor | ="0812536363" | ="9780812536362" | 5 | 3.77 | Tor Science Fiction | Paperback | 381 | 2007 | 2006 | 2015/11/21 | owned | owned (#118) | read | 1 | 0 | ||||||||||||
| 8488830 | Freedom™ (Daemon, #2) | Daniel Suarez | Suarez, Daniel | ="0451231899" | ="9780451231895" | 0 | 4.27 | Signet | Mass Market Paperback | 486 | 2011 | 2010 | 2015/11/21 | to-read, owned | to-read (#17), owned (#117) | to-read | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||||
| 6665847 | Daemon (Daemon, #1) | Daniel Suarez | Suarez, Daniel | ="0451228731" | ="9780451228734" | 3 | 4.15 | Signet | Mass Market Paperback | 632 | 2009 | 2006 | 2015/11/21 | owned | owned (#116) | read | 1 | 0 | ||||||||||||
| 5755 | The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language | Steven Pinker | Pinker, Steven | ="0060958332" | ="9780060958336" | 3 | 4.02 | Harper Perennial Modern Classics | Paperback | 448 | 2000 | 1994 | 2015/11/21 | owned | owned (#115) | read | 1 | 0 | ||||||||||||
| 181239 | Metamagical Themas: Questing for the Essence of Mind and Pattern | Douglas R. Hofstadter | Hofstadter, Douglas R. | ="0465045669" | ="9780465045662" | 0 | 4.19 | Basic Books | Paperback | 880 | 1996 | 1985 | 2015/11/21 | currently-reading, owned | currently-reading (#5), owned (#114) | currently-reading | 1 | 0 | ||||||||||||
| 24113 | Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid | Douglas R. Hofstadter | Hofstadter, Douglas R. | ="0465026567" | ="9780465026562" | 4 | 4.28 | Basic Books | Paperback | 777 | 1999 | 1979 | 2015/11/21 | read | 1 | 0 | ||||||||||||||
| 123471 | I Am a Strange Loop | Douglas R. Hofstadter | Hofstadter, Douglas R. | ="0465030785" | ="9780465030781" | 4 | 3.95 | Basic Books (AZ) | Hardcover | 412 | 2007 | 2007 | 2015/11/21 | read | 1 | 0 | ||||||||||||||
| 2081 | The Mind’s I: Fantasies and Reflections on Self and Soul | Douglas R. Hofstadter | Hofstadter, Douglas R. | Daniel C. Dennett | ="0553345842" | ="9780553345841" | 4 | 4.14 | Bantam Books | Paperback | 512 | 1985 | 1981 | 2015/11/21 | read | 1 | 0 | |||||||||||||
| 10105969 | Psychological Warfare (WWII Era Reprint) | Paul M.A. Linebarger | Linebarger, Paul M.A. | ="1616460555" | ="9781616460556" | 3 | 4.08 | Coachwhip Publications | Paperback | 332 | 2010 | 1948 | 2015/11/21 | owned | owned (#113) | read | 1 | 0 | ||||||||||||
| 18378002 | Intuition Pumps And Other Tools for Thinking | Daniel C. Dennett | Dennett, Daniel C. | ="0393348784" | ="9780393348781" | 5 | 3.78 | W. W. Norton Company | Paperback | 496 | 2014 | 2013 | 2015/11/21 | owned | owned (#112) | read | 1 | 0 | ||||||||||||
| 13330771 | Hallucinations | Oliver Sacks | Sacks, Oliver | ="0307957241" | ="9780307957245" | 5 | 3.89 | Knopf | Hardcover | 326 | 2012 | 2012 | 2015/11/21 | owned | owned (#111) | read | 1 | 0 | ||||||||||||
| 8701960 | The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood | James Gleick | Gleick, James | ="0375423729" | ="9780375423727" | 5 | 4.01 | Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group | Hardcover | 527 | 2011 | 2011 | 2015/11/21 | owned | owned (#110) | read | 1 | 0 | ||||||||||||
| 226469 | The Unteleported Man | Philip K. Dick | Dick, Philip K. | ="042506252X" | ="9780425062524" | 4 | 3.53 | Berkley | Paperback | 202 | 1983 | 1964 | 2015/11/21 | owned | owned (#109) | read | 1 | 0 | ||||||||||||
| 5328062 | VALIS & Later Novels: A Maze of Death / VALIS / The Divine Invasion / The Transmigration of Timothy Archer | Philip K. Dick | Dick, Philip K. | Jonathan Lethem | ="1598530445" | ="9781598530445" | 5 | 4.29 | Library of America | Hardcover | 849 | 2009 | 1984 | 2015/11/21 | owned | owned (#108) | read | 1 | 0 | |||||||||||
| 2033517 | Five Novels of the 1960s & 70s: Martian Time-Slip / Dr. Bloodmoney / Now Wait for Last Year / Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said / A Scanner Darkly | Philip K. Dick | Dick, Philip K. | Jonathan Lethem | ="1598530259" | ="9781598530254" | 5 | 4.34 | Library of America | Hardcover | 1128 | 2008 | 2008 | 2015/11/21 | owned | owned (#107) | read | 1 | 0 | |||||||||||
| 8734881 | The Variable Man | Philip K. Dick | Dick, Philip K. | Gregg Margarite | ="" | ="" | 0 | 3.79 | LibriVox | Audiobook | 100 | 2010 | 1953 | 2015/11/21 | to-read, owned | to-read (#16), owned (#106) | to-read | 0 | 0 | |||||||||||
| 22582 | Lies, Inc. | Philip K. Dick | Dick, Philip K. | ="1400030080" | ="9781400030088" | 4 | 3.17 | Vintage | Paperback | 202 | 2004 | 1983 | 2015/11/21 | owned | owned (#105) | read | 1 | 0 | ||||||||||||
| 92504 | Solar Lottery | Philip K. Dick | Dick, Philip K. | ="0575074558" | ="9780575074552" | 4 | 3.48 | Gollancz | Paperback | 188 | 2003 | 1955 | 2015/11/21 | owned | owned (#104) | read | 1 | 0 | ||||||||||||
| 400270 | We Can Build You | Philip K. Dick | Dick, Philip K. | Juan Pascual Martínez Fernández | ="067975296X" | ="9780679752967" | 5 | 3.57 | Vintage | Paperback | 256 | 1994 | 1972 | 2015/11/21 | owned | owned (#103) | read | 1 | 0 | |||||||||||
| 498123 | Galactic Pot-Healer | Philip K. Dick | Dick, Philip K. | ="0679752978" | ="9780679752974" | 4 | 3.61 | Vintage | Paperback | 177 | 1994 | 1969 | 2015/11/21 | owned | owned (#102) | read | 1 | 0 | ||||||||||||
| 226486 | Clans of the Alphane Moon | Philip K. Dick | Dick, Philip K. | ="0375719288" | ="9780375719288" | 3 | 3.74 | Vintage | Paperback | 256 | 2002 | 1964 | 2015/11/21 | owned | owned (#101) | read | 1 | 0 | ||||||||||||
| 65030 | Confessions of a Crap Artist | Philip K. Dick | Dick, Philip K. | ="0679741143" | ="9780679741145" | 4 | 3.68 | Vintage | Paperback | 256 | 1992 | 1975 | 2015/11/21 | owned | owned (#100) | read | 1 | 0 | ||||||||||||
| 165908 | Eye in the Sky | Philip K. Dick | Dick, Philip K. | ="1400030102" | ="9781400030101" | 5 | 3.74 | Vintage | Paperback | 256 | 2009 | 1957 | 2015/11/21 | owned | owned (#99) | read | 1 | 0 | ||||||||||||
| 216399 | A Maze of Death | Philip K. Dick | Dick, Philip K. | ="0679752986" | ="9780679752981" | 4 | 3.79 | Vintage | Paperback | 192 | 1994 | 1970 | 2015/11/21 | owned | owned (#98) | read | 1 | 0 | ||||||||||||
| 226475 | Radio Free Albemuth | Philip K. Dick | Dick, Philip K. | ="0679781374" | ="9780679781370" | 5 | 3.80 | Vintage | Paperback | 214 | 1998 | 1985 | 2015/11/21 | read | 1 | 0 | ||||||||||||||
| 636108 | Dr. Bloodmoney | Philip K. Dick | Dick, Philip K. | ="0375719296" | ="9780375719295" | 0 | 3.68 | Vintage | Paperback | 298 | 2002 | 1965 | 2015/11/21 | to-read, owned | to-read (#15), owned (#97) | to-read | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||||
| 106585 | The Transmigration of Timothy Archer | Philip K. Dick | Dick, Philip K. | ="0679734449" | ="9780679734444" | 5 | 3.87 | Vintage | Paperback | 255 | 1991 | 1982 | 2015/11/21 | owned | owned (#96) | read | 1 | 0 | ||||||||||||
| 216398 | The Divine Invasion | Philip K. Dick | Dick, Philip K. | ="0679734457" | ="9780679734451" | 4 | 3.81 | Vintage | Paperback | 238 | 1991 | 1981 | 2015/11/21 | owned | owned (#95) | read | 1 | 0 | ||||||||||||
| 698034 | Time Out of Joint | Philip K. Dick | Dick, Philip K. | ="037571927X" | ="9780375719271" | 0 | 3.85 | Vintage | Paperback | 255 | 2002 | 1959 | 2015/11/21 | to-read, owned | to-read (#14), owned (#94) | to-read | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||||
| 697251 | Martian Time-Slip | Philip K. Dick | Dick, Philip K. | ="0679761675" | ="9780679761679" | 0 | 3.77 | Vintage | Paperback | 262 | 1995 | 1964 | 2015/11/21 | to-read, owned | to-read (#13), owned (#93) | to-read | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||||
| 216377 | VALIS (VALIS Trilogy, #1) | Philip K. Dick | Dick, Philip K. | ="0679734465" | ="9780679734468" | 5 | 3.93 | Vintage Books | Paperback | 242 | 2004 | 1981 | 2015/11/21 | owned | owned (#92) | read | 1 | 0 | ||||||||||||
| 14185 | The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch | Philip K. Dick | Dick, Philip K. | ="1407247425" | ="9781407247427" | 4 | 4.01 | Gollancz | Paperback | 231 | 2010 | 1965 | 2015/11/21 | owned | owned (#91) | read | 1 | 0 | ||||||||||||
| 22584 | Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said | Philip K. Dick | Dick, Philip K. | Chris Moore | ="1857983416" | ="9781857983418" | 0 | 3.92 | Gollancz | Paperback | 204 | 2001 | 1974 | 2015/11/21 | to-read, owned | to-read (#12), owned (#90) | to-read | 0 | 0 | |||||||||||
| 22590 | Ubik | Philip K. Dick | Dick, Philip K. | David Alabort, Manuel Espín | ="8498000831" | ="9788498000832" | 5 | 4.08 | La factoría de ideas | Paperback | 288 | 2006 | 1969 | 2015/11/21 | owned | owned (#89) | read | 1 | 0 | |||||||||||
| 14817 | A Scanner Darkly | Philip K. Dick | Dick, Philip K. | ="057507681X" | ="9780575076815" | 5 | 4.01 | Gollancz | Paperback | 219 | 2006 | 1977 | 2015/11/21 | owned | owned (#88) | read | 1 | 0 | ||||||||||||
| 216363 | The Man in the High Castle | Philip K. Dick | Dick, Philip K. | ="0679740678" | ="9780679740674" | 5 | 3.62 | Vintage | Paperback | 259 | 1992 | 1962 | 2015/11/21 | owned | owned (#87) | read | 1 | 0 | ||||||||||||
| 7082 | Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (Blade Runner, #1) | Philip K. Dick | Dick, Philip K. | Roger Zelazny | ="0345404475" | ="9780345404473" | 3 | 4.08 | Del Rey / Ballantine Books | Paperback | 244 | 1996 | 1968 | 2015/11/21 | owned | owned (#86) | read | 1 | 0 | |||||||||||
| 10887550 | The Exegesis of Philip K. Dick | Philip K. Dick | Dick, Philip K. | Pamela Jackson, Jonathan Lethem | ="0547549253" | ="9780547549255" | 0 | 4.17 | Houghton Mifflin Harcourt | Hardcover | 976 | 2011 | 2011 | 2015/11/21 | currently-reading, owned | currently-reading (#4), owned (#85) | currently-reading | 1 | 0 | |||||||||||
| 361838 | Everything Is Under Control: Conspiracies, Cults and Cover-ups | Robert Anton Wilson | Wilson, Robert Anton | Miriam Joan Hill | ="0062734172" | ="9780062734174" | 4 | 3.78 | William Morrow Paperbacks | Paperback | 435 | 1998 | 1998 | 2015/11/21 | owned | owned (#84) | read | 1 | 0 | |||||||||||
| 48620 | Cosmic Trigger 3: My Life After Death | Robert Anton Wilson | Wilson, Robert Anton | ="1561841129" | ="9781561841127" | 2 | 4.13 | New Falcon Publications | Paperback | 247 | 1995 | 1995 | 2015/11/21 | owned | owned (#83) | read | 1 | 0 | ||||||||||||
| 48622 | Cosmic Trigger 2: Down to Earth | Robert Anton Wilson | Wilson, Robert Anton | Christopher S. Hyatt | ="" | ="9781561840113" | 3 | 4.13 | New Falcon Publications | Paperback | 288 | 1991 | 1991 | 2015/11/21 | owned | owned (#82) | read | 1 | 0 | |||||||||||
| 241888 | Masks of the Illuminati | Robert Anton Wilson | Wilson, Robert Anton | ="0671825852" | ="9780671825850" | 5 | 4.01 | Pocket Books | Mass Market Paperback | 294 | 1981 | 1981 | 2015/11/21 | owned | owned (#81) | read | 1 | 0 | ||||||||||||
| 62558 | Quantum Psychology: How Brain Software Programs You & Your World | Robert Anton Wilson | Wilson, Robert Anton | ="1561840718" | ="9781561840717" | 5 | 4.23 | New Falcon Publications | Paperback | 202 | 1993 | 1990 | 2015/11/21 | read | 1 | 0 | ||||||||||||||
| 62567 | Schrödinger's Cat Trilogy | Robert Anton Wilson | Wilson, Robert Anton | ="0440500702" | ="9780440500704" | 3 | 4.07 | Dell Publishing | Paperback | 560 | 2009 | 1981 | 2015/11/21 | read | 1 | 0 | ||||||||||||||
| 28597 | Prometheus Rising | Robert Anton Wilson | Wilson, Robert Anton | Israel Regardie | ="1561840564" | ="9781561840564" | 5 | 4.26 | New Falcon Publications | Paperback | 284 | 2010 | 1983 | 2015/11/21 | owned | owned (#80) | read | 1 | 0 | |||||||||||
| 57913 | The Illuminatus! Trilogy | Robert Shea | Shea, Robert | Robert Anton Wilson | ="0440539811" | ="9780440539810" | 5 | 4.01 | Dell | Paperback | 805 | 1983 | 1975 | 2015/11/21 | owned | owned (#79) | read | 1 | 0 | |||||||||||
| 13235689 | How Music Works | David Byrne | Byrne, David | ="1936365537" | ="9781936365531" | 5 | 3.96 | McSweeney's | Hardcover | 345 | 2012 | 2012 | 2015/11/21 | owned | owned (#78) | read | 1 | 0 | ||||||||||||
| 9799 | The Fortress of Solitude | Jonathan Lethem | Lethem, Jonathan | ="0571219357" | ="9780571219353" | 0 | 3.87 | Faber and Faber | Paperback | 528 | 2005 | 2003 | 2015/11/21 | to-read, owned | to-read (#11), owned (#77) | to-read | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||||
| 32078 | Amnesia Moon | Jonathan Lethem | Lethem, Jonathan | ="015603154X" | ="9780156031547" | 4 | 3.49 | Mariner Books | Paperback | 256 | 2005 | 1995 | 2015/11/21 | owned | owned (#76) | read | 1 | 0 | ||||||||||||
| 16720 | As She Climbed Across the Table | Jonathan Lethem | Lethem, Jonathan | ="0375700129" | ="9780375700125" | 4 | 3.67 | Vintage | Paperback | 212 | 1998 | 1997 | 2015/11/21 | owned | owned (#75) | read | 1 | 0 | ||||||||||||
| 328854 | Motherless Brooklyn | Jonathan Lethem | Lethem, Jonathan | ="0375724834" | ="9780375724831" | 4 | 3.88 | Vintage | Paperback | 311 | 2000 | 1999 | 2015/11/21 | owned | owned (#74) | read | 1 | 0 | ||||||||||||
| 6085191 | Chronic City | Jonathan Lethem | Lethem, Jonathan | ="0385518633" | ="9780385518635" | 5 | 3.53 | Doubleday | Hardcover | 467 | 2009 | 2009 | 2015/11/21 | owned | owned (#73) | read | 1 | 0 | ||||||||||||
| 16718 | Gun, With Occasional Music | Jonathan Lethem | Lethem, Jonathan | ="0156028972" | ="9780156028974" | 5 | 3.77 | Mariner Books | Paperback | 271 | 2003 | 1994 | 2015/11/21 | owned | owned (#72) | read | 1 | 0 | ||||||||||||
| 18948 | The Rediscovery of Man: The Complete Short Science Fiction of Cordwainer Smith | Cordwainer Smith | Smith, Cordwainer | James A. Mann, John J. Pierce | ="0915368560" | ="9780915368563" | 5 | 4.41 | NESFA Press | Hardcover | 671 | 1993 | 1993 | 2015/11/21 | owned | owned (#71) | read | 1 | 0 | |||||||||||
| 18952 | The Rediscovery of Man | Cordwainer Smith | Smith, Cordwainer | ="1857988191" | ="9781857988192" | 5 | 4.14 | Gollancz | Paperback | 368 | 1999 | 1975 | 2015/11/21 | read | 1 | 0 | ||||||||||||||
| 1003311 | Norstrilia | Cordwainer Smith | Smith, Cordwainer | ="0345323009" | ="9780345323002" | 4 | 4.06 | Del Rey | Mass Market Paperback | 288 | 1985 | 1975 | 2015/11/21 | owned | owned (#70) | read | 1 | 0 | ||||||||||||
| 29581 | Foundation and Empire (Foundation #2) | Isaac Asimov | Asimov, Isaac | ="0553803727" | ="9780553803723" | 0 | 4.22 | Spectra Books | Hardcover | 256 | 2004 | 1952 | 2015/11/21 | to-read | to-read (#10) | to-read | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||||
| 29580 | Second Foundation (Foundation #3) | Isaac Asimov | Asimov, Isaac | ="0553803735" | ="9780553803730" | 0 | 4.25 | Bantam Spectra | Hardcover | 256 | 2004 | 1953 | 2015/11/21 | to-read, owned | to-read (#9), owned (#69) | to-read | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||||
| 29579 | Foundation (Foundation, #1) | Isaac Asimov | Asimov, Isaac | ="0553803719" | ="9780553803716" | 4 | 4.17 | Bantam | Hardcover | 244 | 2004 | 1951 | 2015/11/21 | owned | owned (#68) | read | 1 | 0 | ||||||||||||
| 105 | Chapterhouse: Dune (Dune #6) | Frank Herbert | Herbert, Frank | ="0441102670" | ="9780441102679" | 0 | 3.91 | Ace Books | Mass Market Paperback | 436 | 1987 | 1985 | 2015/11/21 | to-read, owned | to-read (#8), owned (#67) | to-read | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||||
| 117 | Heretics of Dune (Dune Chronicles #5) | Frank Herbert | Herbert, Frank | ="0441328008" | ="9780441328000" | 0 | 3.87 | Ace Books | Mass Market Paperback | 471 | 1987 | 1984 | 2015/11/21 | to-read, owned | to-read (#7), owned (#66) | to-read | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||||
| 42432 | God Emperor of Dune (Dune Chronicles #4) | Frank Herbert | Herbert, Frank | ="0575075066" | ="9780575075061" | 0 | 3.86 | Victor Gollancz | Paperback | 454 | 2003 | 1981 | 2015/11/21 | to-read, owned | to-read (#6), owned (#65) | to-read | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||||
| 112 | Children of Dune (Dune Chronicles #3) | Frank Herbert | Herbert, Frank | ="" | ="" | 0 | 3.94 | Ace Books | Mass Market Paperback | 408 | 1987 | 1976 | 2015/11/21 | to-read, owned | to-read (#5), owned (#64) | to-read | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||||
| 106 | Dune Messiah (Dune #2) | Frank Herbert | Herbert, Frank | ="0441172695" | ="9780441172696" | 5 | 3.88 | Ace Books | Mass Market Paperback | 331 | 1987 | 1969 | 2015/11/21 | owned | owned (#63) | read | 1 | 0 | ||||||||||||
| 234225 | Dune (Dune Chronicles, #1) | Frank Herbert | Herbert, Frank | Domingo Santos | ="0340839937" | ="9780340839935" | 5 | 4.23 | Hodder & Stoughton | Paperback | 604 | 2006 | 1965 | 2015/11/21 | owned | owned (#62) | read | 1 | 0 | |||||||||||
| 241883 | Semiotext(e) SF | Rudy Rucker | Rucker, Rudy | John Shirley, Nick Herbert, Rachel Pollack, Bob McGlynn, Kerry W. Thornley, William Gibson, Sol Yurick, J.G. Ballard, Paul Di Filippo, Sharon Gannon, David Life, Richard Kadrey, Hakim Bey, Ian Watson, Michael Blumlein, Thom Metzger, Lewis Shiner, William S. Burroughs, Daniel Pearlman, Ron Kolm, Robert Anton Wilson, Greg Gibson, Lorraine Schein, Terry L. Parkinson, Marc Laidlaw, Colin Wilson, Robert Sheckley, Denise Angela Shawl, Luke McGuff, Philip José Farmer, Hugh Fox, Peter Lamborn Wilson, Bart Plantenga, Anonymous, T. Winter-Damon, Ivan Stang, Jacob Rabinowitz, Barrington J. Bayley, Mike Saenz, Don Webb, Bruce Sterling, Bruce Boston, Ernest Hogan | ="0936756438" | ="9780936756431" | 5 | 3.93 | Autonomedia (NYC) | Paperback | 384 | 1991 | 1991 | 2015/11/21 | owned | owned (#61) | read | 1 | 0 | |||||||||||
| 497121 | Memoirs Found in a Bathtub | Stanisław Lem | Lem, Stanisław | Christine Rose, Michael Kandel | ="0156585855" | ="9780156585859" | 0 | 3.78 | Mariner Books | Paperback | 204 | 1986 | 1961 | 2015/11/21 | currently-reading, owned | currently-reading (#2), owned (#59) | currently-reading | 1 | 0 | |||||||||||
| 95558 | Solaris | Stanisław Lem | Lem, Stanisław | Joanna Kilmartin, Steve Cox | ="" | ="" | 5 | 3.99 | Harcourt | Paperback | 204 | 2002 | 1961 | 2015/11/21 | owned | owned (#57) | read | 1 | 0 | |||||||||||
| 12305328 | 涼宮ハルヒの驚愕 (後) (Haruhi Suzumiya, #11) | Nagaru Tanigawa | Tanigawa, Nagaru | Nagaru Tanigawa, Noizi Itou | ="4044292124" | ="9784044292126" | 0 | 4.14 | 角川書店 | 文庫 | 286 | 2011 | 2011 | 2015/11/21 | to-read | to-read (#4) | to-read | 0 | 0 | |||||||||||
| 12305329 | 涼宮ハルヒの驚愕 (前) (Haruhi Suzumiya, #10) | Nagaru Tanigawa | Tanigawa, Nagaru | Nagaru Tanigawa, Noizi Itou | ="4044292116" | ="9784044292119" | 5 | 4.02 | 角川書店 | 文庫 | 296 | 2011 | 2011 | 2015/11/21 | read | 1 | 0 | |||||||||||||
| 2344597 | 涼宮ハルヒの分裂 (Haruhi Suzumiya, #9) | Nagaru Tanigawa | Tanigawa, Nagaru | Noizi Itou | ="4044292094" | ="9784044292096" | 4 | 3.96 | 角川書店 | 文庫 | 295 | 2007 | 2007 | 2015/11/21 | read | 1 | 0 | |||||||||||||
| 6588060 | 涼宮ハルヒの憤慨 (Haruhi Suzumiya, #8) | Nagaru Tanigawa | Tanigawa, Nagaru | Nagaru Tanigawa, Noizi Itou | ="4044292086" | ="9784044292089" | 4 | 3.86 | 角川書店 | 文庫 | 301 | 2006 | 2006 | 2015/11/21 | read | 1 | 0 | |||||||||||||
| 13120060 | The Intrigues of Haruhi Suzumiya (Haruhi Suzumiya, #7) | Nagaru Tanigawa | Tanigawa, Nagaru | ="0316038962" | ="9780316038966" | 4 | 3.97 | Yen On | Paperback | 288 | 2012 | 2005 | 2015/11/21 | read | 1 | 0 | ||||||||||||||
| 11174648 | The Wavering of Haruhi Suzumiya (Haruhi Suzumiya, #6) | Nagaru Tanigawa | Tanigawa, Nagaru | ="031603892X" | ="9780316038928" | 3 | 3.84 | Yen On | Paperback | 208 | 2011 | 2005 | 2015/11/21 | read | 1 | 0 | ||||||||||||||
| 2344604 | 涼宮ハルヒの暴走 [Suzumiya Haruhi no Bōsō] (Haruhi Suzumiya, #5) | Nagaru Tanigawa | Tanigawa, Nagaru | Nagaru Tanigawa, Noizi Itou | ="4044292051" | ="9784044292058" | 4 | 3.94 | 角川書店 | 文庫 | 327 | 2004 | 2003 | 2015/11/21 | read | 1 | 0 | |||||||||||||
| 7915095 | The Disappearance of Haruhi Suzumiya (Haruhi Suzumiya, #4) | Nagaru Tanigawa | Tanigawa, Nagaru | Noizi Itou | ="0316038903" | ="9780316038904" | 5 | 4.38 | Yen On | Hardcover | 192 | 2010 | 2004 | 2015/11/21 | read | 1 | 0 | |||||||||||||
| 7742850 | The Boredom of Haruhi Suzumiya (Haruhi Suzumiya, #3) | Nagaru Tanigawa | Tanigawa, Nagaru | Noizi Itou | ="0316038865" | ="9780316038867" | 4 | 3.81 | Yen On | Hardcover | 224 | 2010 | 2003 | 2015/11/21 | read | 1 | 0 | |||||||||||||
| 3430066 | 涼宮ハルヒの溜息 (Haruhi Suzumiya, #2) | Nagaru Tanigawa | Tanigawa, Nagaru | Nagaru Tanigawa, Noizi Itou | ="4044292027" | ="9784044292027" | 2 | 3.70 | 角川書店 | 文庫 | 278 | 2003 | 2003 | 2015/11/21 | read | 1 | 0 | |||||||||||||
| 6076675 | The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya (Haruhi Suzumiya, #1) | Nagaru Tanigawa | Tanigawa, Nagaru | Noizi Itou, Chris Pai | ="0316039020" | ="9780316039024" | 4 | 3.95 | Yen On | Paperback | 202 | 2009 | 2003 | 2015/11/21 | read | 1 | 0 | |||||||||||||
| 18630 | The Player of Games (Culture, #2) | Iain M. Banks | Banks, Iain M. | ="0061053562" | ="9780061053566" | 0 | 4.27 | HarperPrism | Paperback | 293 | 1997 | 1988 | 2015/11/21 | owned, to-read | owned (#53), to-read (#3) | to-read | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||||
| 8488439 | The Concrete Jungle (Laundry Files, #1.5) | Charles Stross | Stross, Charles | ="" | ="" | 3 | 3.89 | 99 Cent Books & New Century Books | Kindle Edition | 57 | 2010 | 2004 | 2015/11/21 | owned | owned (#51) | read | 1 | 0 | ||||||||||||
| 6707525 | The Trade of Queens (The Merchant Princes, #6) | Charles Stross | Stross, Charles | ="0765316730" | ="9780765316738" | 5 | 3.58 | Tor Books | Hardcover | 303 | 2010 | 2010 | 2015/11/21 | owned | owned (#50) | read | 1 | 0 | ||||||||||||
| 3912602 | The Revolution Business (The Merchant Princes, #5) | Charles Stross | Stross, Charles | ="0765316722" | ="9780765316721" | 5 | 3.62 | Tor Books | Hardcover | 320 | 2009 | 2009 | 2015/11/21 | owned | owned (#49) | read | 1 | 0 | ||||||||||||
| 419363 | The Merchants' War (The Merchant Princes, #4) | Charles Stross | Stross, Charles | ="0765316714" | ="9780765316714" | 4 | 3.58 | Tor Books | Hardcover | 336 | 2007 | 2007 | 2015/11/21 | owned | owned (#48) | read | 1 | 0 | ||||||||||||
| 8605343 | Down on the Farm (Laundry Files, #2.5) | Charles Stross | Stross, Charles | ="" | ="" | 3 | 3.97 | tor.com | Kindle Edition | 32 | 2010 | 2008 | 2015/11/21 | owned | owned (#47) | read | 1 | 0 | ||||||||||||
| 23154785 | The Annihilation Score (Laundry Files, #6) | Charles Stross | Stross, Charles | ="0356505316" | ="9780356505312" | 5 | 3.91 | Orbit | Hardcover | 352 | 2015 | 2015 | 2015/11/21 | owned | owned (#46) | read | 1 | 0 | ||||||||||||
| 17864 | The Clan Corporate (The Merchant Princes, #3) | Charles Stross | Stross, Charles | ="0765309300" | ="9780765309303" | 4 | 3.49 | Tor Books | Hardcover | 320 | 2006 | 2006 | 2015/11/21 | owned | owned (#45) | read | 1 | 0 | ||||||||||||
| 8420932 | Overtime (Laundry Files, #3.5) | Charles Stross | Stross, Charles | ="" | ="" | 1 | 3.91 | Tor Books | Kindle Edition | 30 | 2010 | 2009 | 2015/11/21 | owned | owned (#44) | read | 1 | 0 | ||||||||||||
| 17867 | The Hidden Family (The Merchant Princes, #2) | Charles Stross | Stross, Charles | ="0765352052" | ="9780765352057" | 4 | 3.57 | Tor Fantasy | Mass Market Paperback | 309 | 2006 | 2005 | 2015/11/21 | owned | owned (#43) | read | 1 | 0 | ||||||||||||
| 5226027 | Wireless | Charles Stross | Stross, Charles | ="0441017193" | ="9780441017195" | 5 | 3.90 | Ace Books | Hardcover | 352 | 2009 | 2009 | 2015/11/21 | owned | owned (#41) | read | 1 | 0 | ||||||||||||
| 15985402 | Neptune's Brood (Freyaverse, #2) | Charles Stross | Stross, Charles | ="0425256774" | ="9780425256770" | 5 | 3.84 | Ace | Hardcover | 336 | 2013 | 2013 | 2015/11/21 | owned | owned (#40) | read | 1 | 0 | ||||||||||||
| 17861 | The Family Trade (The Merchant Princes, #1) | Charles Stross | Stross, Charles | ="0765348217" | ="9780765348210" | 4 | 3.52 | Tor Fantasy | Mass Market Paperback | 308 | 2005 | 2004 | 2015/11/21 | owned | owned (#39) | read | 1 | 0 | ||||||||||||
| 18211295 | The Rhesus Chart (Laundry Files, #5) | Charles Stross | Stross, Charles | ="0356502538" | ="9780356502533" | 4 | 4.18 | Orbit | Hardcover | 352 | 2014 | 2014 | 2015/11/21 | owned | owned (#38) | read | 1 | 0 | ||||||||||||
| 12393566 | The Apocalypse Codex (Laundry Files, #4) | Charles Stross | Stross, Charles | ="" | ="" | 4 | 4.16 | Ace | Kindle Edition | 336 | 2012 | 2012 | 2015/11/21 | owned | owned (#37) | read | 1 | 0 | ||||||||||||
| 2278387 | Saturn's Children (Freyaverse #1) | Charles Stross | Stross, Charles | ="0441015948" | ="9780441015948" | 4 | 3.57 | Ace | Hardcover | 323 | 2008 | 2008 | 2015/11/21 | owned | owned (#36) | read | 1 | 0 | ||||||||||||
| 7149287 | The Fuller Memorandum (Laundry Files, #3) | Charles Stross | Stross, Charles | ="044101867X" | ="9780441018673" | 5 | 4.18 | Ace Books | Hardcover | 312 | 2010 | 2010 | 2015/11/21 | owned | owned (#35) | read | 1 | 0 | ||||||||||||
| 101864 | Iron Sunrise (Eschaton, #2) | Charles Stross | Stross, Charles | ="1841493368" | ="9781841493367" | 5 | 3.97 | Orbit (UK) | Mass Market Paperback | 480 | 2005 | 2004 | 2015/11/21 | owned | owned (#34) | read | 1 | 0 | ||||||||||||
| 8853299 | Rule 34 (Halting State, #2) | Charles Stross | Stross, Charles | ="1841497738" | ="9781841497730" | 5 | 3.74 | Orbit | Paperback | 358 | 2011 | 2011 | 2015/11/21 | owned | owned (#33) | read | 1 | 0 | ||||||||||||
| 14150 | The Jennifer Morgue (Laundry Files #2) | Charles Stross | Stross, Charles | ="1930846452" | ="9781930846456" | 4 | 4.03 | Golden Gryphon Press | Hardcover | 292 | 2006 | 2006 | 2015/11/21 | owned | owned (#32) | read | 1 | 0 | ||||||||||||
| 17866 | Glasshouse | Charles Stross | Stross, Charles | ="0441014038" | ="9780441014033" | 5 | 3.87 | Ace Books | Hardcover | 335 | 2006 | 2006 | 2015/11/21 | owned | owned (#31) | read | 1 | 0 | ||||||||||||
| 222472 | Halting State (Halting State, #1) | Charles Stross | Stross, Charles | ="0441014984" | ="9780441014989" | 5 | 3.79 | Ace Books | Hardcover | 351 | 2007 | 2007 | 2015/11/21 | owned | owned (#30) | read | 1 | 0 | ||||||||||||
| 81992 | Singularity Sky (Eschaton, #1) | Charles Stross | Stross, Charles | ="1841493341" | ="9781841493343" | 4 | 3.83 | Orbit (UK) | Mass Market Paperback | 389 | 2005 | 2003 | 2015/11/21 | owned | owned (#29) | read | 1 | 0 | ||||||||||||
| 101869 | The Atrocity Archives (Laundry Files, #1) | Charles Stross | Stross, Charles | ="0441013651" | ="9780441013654" | 3 | 3.92 | Ace | Paperback | 345 | 2006 | 2004 | 2015/11/21 | owned | owned (#28) | read | 1 | 0 | ||||||||||||
| 17863 | Accelerando | Charles Stross | Stross, Charles | ="0441014151" | ="9780441014156" | 5 | 3.89 | Ace Books | Mass Market Paperback | 415 | 2006 | 2005 | 2015/11/21 | owned | owned (#27) | read | 1 | 0 | ||||||||||||
| 13406933 | Some Remarks: Essays and Other Writing | Neal Stephenson | Stephenson, Neal | ="0062024434" | ="9780062024435" | 3 | 3.71 | William Morrow | Hardcover | 336 | 2012 | 1994 | 2015/11/21 | owned | owned (#26) | read | 1 | 0 | ||||||||||||
| 828 | Interface | Neal Stephenson | Stephenson, Neal | George F. Jewsbury, Stephen Bury | ="0553383434" | ="9780553383430" | 0 | 3.69 | Spectra | Paperback | 640 | 2005 | 1994 | 2015/11/21 | to-read | to-read (#2) | to-read | 0 | 0 | |||||||||||
| 826 | The Big U | Neal Stephenson | Stephenson, Neal | ="0380816032" | ="9780380816033" | 0 | 3.26 | William Morrow Paperbacks | Paperback | 308 | 2001 | 1984 | 2015/11/21 | to-read | to-read (#1) | to-read | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||||
| 18937 | In the Beginning...Was the Command Line | Neal Stephenson | Stephenson, Neal | ="0380815931" | ="9780380815937" | 5 | 3.80 | William Morrow Paperbacks | Paperback | 151 | 1999 | 1999 | 2015/11/21 | owned | owned (#25) | read | 1 | 0 | ||||||||||||
| 12853147 | The Mongoliad: Book One (Foreworld, #1) | Neal Stephenson | Stephenson, Neal | Greg Bear, Mark Teppo, E.D. deBirmingham, Erik Bear, Joseph Brassey, Cooper Moo | ="" | ="" | 1 | 3.50 | 47north | Kindle Edition | 490 | 2012 | 2012 | 2015/11/21 | owned | owned (#24) | read | 1 | 0 | |||||||||||
| 825 | Zodiac | Neal Stephenson | Stephenson, Neal | ="0553573861" | ="9780553573862" | 5 | 3.72 | Spectra | Mass Market Paperback | 308 | 1995 | 1988 | 2015/11/21 | owned | owned (#23) | read | 1 | 0 | ||||||||||||
| 116257 | The System of the World (The Baroque Cycle, #3) | Neal Stephenson | Stephenson, Neal | ="0060750863" | ="9780060750862" | 5 | 4.32 | William Morrow Paperbacks | Paperback | 908 | 2005 | 2004 | 2015/11/21 | owned | owned (#22) | read | 1 | 0 | ||||||||||||
| 822 | The Confusion (The Baroque Cycle, #2) | Neal Stephenson | Stephenson, Neal | ="0060733357" | ="9780060733353" | 5 | 4.26 | William Morrow Paperbacks | Paperback | 815 | 2005 | 2004 | 2015/11/21 | owned | owned (#21) | read | 1 | 0 | ||||||||||||
| 823 | Quicksilver (The Baroque Cycle, #1) | Neal Stephenson | Stephenson, Neal | ="0060593083" | ="9780060593087" | 4 | 3.92 | HarperCollins Perennial | Paperback | 927 | 2004 | 2003 | 2015/11/21 | owned | owned (#20) | read | 1 | 0 | ||||||||||||
| 22816087 | Seveneves | Neal Stephenson | Stephenson, Neal | ="" | ="" | 4 | 3.99 | William Morrow | Kindle Edition | 880 | 2015 | 2015 | 2015/11/21 | owned | owned (#19) | read | 1 | 0 | ||||||||||||
| 10552338 | Reamde | Neal Stephenson | Stephenson, Neal | ="0061977969" | ="9780061977961" | 4 | 3.97 | William Morrow | Hardcover | 1044 | 2011 | 2011 | 2015/11/21 | owned | owned (#18) | read | 1 | 0 | ||||||||||||
| 2845024 | Anathem | Neal Stephenson | Stephenson, Neal | ="0061474096" | ="9780061474095" | 4 | 4.18 | William Morrow | Hardcover | 937 | 2008 | 2008 | 2015/11/21 | owned | owned (#17) | read | 1 | 0 | ||||||||||||
| 827 | The Diamond Age: Or, A Young Lady's Illustrated Primer | Neal Stephenson | Stephenson, Neal | Pedro Jorge Romero | ="0553380966" | ="9780553380965" | 5 | 4.17 | Spectra | Paperback | 499 | 2000 | 1995 | 2015/11/21 | owned | owned (#16) | read | 1 | 0 | |||||||||||
| 816 | Cryptonomicon | Neal Stephenson | Stephenson, Neal | ="" | ="" | 5 | 4.24 | Avon | Mass Market Paperback | 1139 | 2002 | 1999 | 2015/11/21 | owned | owned (#15) | read | 1 | 0 | ||||||||||||
| 830 | Snow Crash | Neal Stephenson | Stephenson, Neal | Guy Abadia | ="0553380958" | ="9780553380958" | 5 | 4.02 | Bantam Books | Paperback | 438 | 2000 | 1992 | 2015/11/21 | owned | owned (#14) | read | 1 | 0 | |||||||||||
| 11890817 | Distrust That Particular Flavor | William Gibson | Gibson, William | ="039915843X" | ="9780399158438" | 3 | 3.79 | G.P. Putnam's Sons | Hardcover | 255 | 2012 | 2012 | 2015/11/21 | owned | owned (#13) | read | 1 | 0 | ||||||||||||
| 22321 | All Tomorrow's Parties (Bridge, #3) | William Gibson | Gibson, William | ="0425190447" | ="9780425190449" | 5 | 3.91 | Berkley Publishing Group | Mass Market Paperback | 341 | 2003 | 1999 | 2015/11/21 | owned | owned (#12) | read | 1 | 0 | ||||||||||||
| 7745031 | Zero History (Blue Ant, #3) | William Gibson | Gibson, William | ="0399156828" | ="9780399156823" | 4 | 3.95 | Putnam Adult | Hardcover | 404 | 2010 | 2010 | 2015/11/21 | owned | owned (#11) | read | 1 | 0 | ||||||||||||
| 20821159 | The Peripheral (The Peripheral #1) | William Gibson | Gibson, William | ="0399158448" | ="9780399158445" | 4 | 3.94 | Berkley | Hardcover | 485 | 2014 | 2014 | 2015/11/21 | owned | owned (#10) | read | 1 | 0 | ||||||||||||
| 22325 | Idoru (Bridge #2) | William Gibson | Gibson, William | ="0425190455" | ="9780425190456" | 5 | 3.81 | Berkley Trade | Paperback | 308 | 2003 | 1996 | 2015/11/21 | owned | owned (#9) | read | 1 | 0 | ||||||||||||
| 22326 | Virtual Light (Bridge, #1) | William Gibson | Gibson, William | ="0140157727" | ="9780140157727" | 4 | 3.86 | Penguin Books Ltd | Paperback | 304 | 1996 | 1993 | 2015/11/21 | owned | owned (#8) | read | 1 | 0 | ||||||||||||
| 22322 | Spook Country (Blue Ant, #2) | William Gibson | Gibson, William | ="0399154302" | ="9780399154300" | 5 | 3.69 | Putnam Adult | Hardcover | 371 | 2007 | 2007 | 2015/11/21 | owned | owned (#7) | read | 1 | 0 | ||||||||||||
| 337116 | The Difference Engine | William Gibson | Gibson, William | Bruce Sterling | ="055329461X" | ="9780553294613" | 4 | 3.44 | Spectra Books | Paperback | 429 | 1992 | 1990 | 2015/11/21 | owned | owned (#6) | read | 1 | 0 | |||||||||||
| 154091 | Mona Lisa Overdrive (Sprawl, #3) | William Gibson | Gibson, William | ="0553281747" | ="9780553281743" | 5 | 3.99 | Bantam Spectra | Mass Market Paperback | 308 | 1989 | 1988 | 2015/11/21 | owned | owned (#5) | read | 1 | 0 | ||||||||||||
| 22323 | Burning Chrome (Sprawl, #0) | William Gibson | Gibson, William | Bruce Sterling, Jonathan Davis, Dennis Holland, Kevin Pariseau, Victor Bevine, Jay Snyder, Brian Nishii, L.J. Ganser, Oliver Wyman, Eric Michael Summerer, Marc Vietor | ="0060539828" | ="9780060539825" | 4 | 4.06 | Harper Voyager | Paperback | 224 | 2003 | 1986 | 2015/11/21 | owned | owned (#4) | read | 1 | 0 | |||||||||||
| 22200 | Count Zero (Sprawl, #2) | William Gibson | Gibson, William | ="0441013678" | ="9780441013678" | 5 | 4.01 | Ace Books | Paperback | 308 | 2006 | 1986 | 2015/11/21 | owned | owned (#3) | read | 1 | 0 | ||||||||||||
| 22320 | Pattern Recognition (Blue Ant, #1) | William Gibson | Gibson, William | ="0425198685" | ="9780425198681" | 4 | 3.87 | Berkley Books | Mass Market Paperback | 367 | 2005 | 2003 | 2015/11/21 | owned | owned (#2) | read | 1 | 0 | ||||||||||||
| 22328 | Neuromancer (Sprawl, #1) | William Gibson | Gibson, William | ="" | ="" | 5 | 3.90 | Ace Books | Mass Market Paperback | 271 | 1984 | 1984 | 2015/11/21 | owned | owned (#1) | read | 1 | 0 |