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Breakfast of Champions
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"We are healthy only to the extent that our ideas are humane." So reads the tombstone of downtrodden writer Kilgore Trout, but we have no doubt who's really talking: his alter ego Kurt Vonnegut. Health versus sickness, humanity versus inhumanity--both sets of ideas bounce through this challenging and funny book. As with the rest of Vonnegut's pure fant... »
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The Peace War
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Vinge portrays a society not that far in our future where governmental borders and organizations have shifted. Overlords control technology, with a few at the top, and almost feudal societies below.
Good story, well written, a bit too much "superman" in that the principal characters manage fantastic feats (via technology, not brawn).
But a ... »
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Marooned in Realtime
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After hearing Vernor Vinge speak recently, it was no surprise to me that Marooned In Realtime is a thoughtful, intelligent novel. Science fiction that spans great periods of time is often forced to throw characterization overboard as the scope overwhelms individuals (e.g. Stapledon's otherwise excellent Last and First Men reads more like a treatise on ... »
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Paranoia Flashbacks (Paranoia Xp)
These adventures all stand the test of time, still being funny and terrifying after all these years.
The other reviewer did a bang up job of ... »
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The Sirens of Titan
Maybe my opinion of "Sirens" is colored by my love of all of Vonnegut's books, especially the incomparable "Cat's Cradle".
The thesis of the ... »
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The Witling
An excellent light SF adventure. Our heroes are captured on a medieval planet where it turns out the locals have telekinetic powers. Lacking such powers... »
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Tales of the Dying Earth
I looked forward to a bunch of great stories about the future of earth and how mankind was dealing with it. Instead this was three or four books obviousl... »
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