The Red Dwarf Omnibus is a printing of
Red Dwarf: Infinity Welcomes Careful Drivers
and Red Dwarf: Better Than Life in a single
volume.
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Category Archives: Books
Novel Review: Gravity’s Rainbow
A screaming comes across the sky. It has happened before, but there is nothing to compare to it now.
It is too late. The Evacuation still proceeds, but it’s all theatre. There are no lights inside the cars. No light anywhere. Above him lift girders old as an iron queen, and glass somewhere far above that would let the light of day through. But it’s night. He’s afraid of the way the glass will fall– soon– it will be a spectacle: the fall of a crystal palace. But coming down in total blackout, without one glint of light, only great invisible crashing.
Book Review – “Stagestruck Vampires and Other Phantasms”
Do you like vampires, werewolves, shamans, and reptilian aliens? Well, they’re all in here.
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Snow Crash
Neal Stephenson’s third novel, Snow Crash made him a writer to read. An often hilarious successor to the cyberpunk novels of the 1980s, it finally receives its Bureau review.
Humane Society: Stories about Tragedy and Golf
–A good book, maybe, but is it genre?
–Well, there’s a ghost in one story and a dream-vision in another.
–Do you know this guy? Did you get a free copy to review? What’s the deal here?
–Look, just bear with me on this one….
Jack Chalker Seriously Ill
Here’s a chance where we can actually do something before it’s too late.
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The Confusion
This volume contains two novels, Bonanza and Juncto, that take place concurrently during the span 1689-1702. Rather than present one, then the other… I have interleaved sections of one with sections of the other so that the two stories move forward in synchrony. It is hoped that being thus con-fused shall render them less confusing to the Reader.
–Neal Stephenson.
Maybe. Then again, maybe not.
–The Timeshredder
Free eBooks all month
eReader.com is giving away free eBooks every day this month. Logistically, it’s a sale of $0, so you’ll need to create an account to take advantage of the deal. This also includes submitting a credit card number, which I’m told is used as part of the eBook encryption to discourage file sharing. Still, free books are free books. The promo is here.
Book Review – “Flatlander”
Today, more Larry Niven. Tomorrow, Smallville.
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Book Review – “World of Ptavvs”
In another short break from the Halloween schedule,
we’ve got some Larry Niven.
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