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Wastelands: Stories of the Apocalypse»rank: 1488by: Stephen King, Cory Doctorow, George R. R. Martin, Octavia E. Butler, Jonathan Lethem, Orson Scott Card, Gene Wolfe, Jack McDevitt, Tobias S. Buckell
0ur opinion: :Famine, Death, War, and Pestilence: The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, the harbingers of Armageddon - these are our guides through the Wastelands... From the Book of Revelations to The Road Warrior; from A Canticle for Leibowitz to The Road, storytellers have long imagined the end of the world, weaving tales of catastrophe, chaos, and calamity. Gathering together the best post-apocalyptic literature of the last two decades from many of today's most renowned authors ...
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Philip K. Dick: Four Novels of the 1960s: The Man in the High Castle / The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch / Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? / Ubik»rank: 4699by: Philip K. Dick
0ur opinion: :Known in his lifetime primarily to readers of science fiction, Philip K. Dick (1928-82) is now seen as a uniquely visionary figure, a writer who, in editor Jonathan Lethem's words, 'wielded a sardonic yet heartbroken acuity about the plight of being alive in the twentieth century, one that makes him a lonely hero to the readers who cherish him.' Posing the questions 'What is human?' and 'What is real?' in a multitude of fascinating ...
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Philip K. Dick: Five Novels of the 1960s & 70s»rank: 8803by: Philip K. Dick
0ur opinion: :Jonathan Lethem, editor 'The most outré science fiction writer of the 2Oth century has finally entered the canon,' exclaimed Wired Magazine upon The Library of America's May 2OO7 publication of Philip K. Dick: Four Novels of the 196Os, edited by Jonathan Lethem. Now comes a companion volume collecting five novels that offer a breathtaking overview of the range of this science-fiction master. Philip K. Dick (1928-82) was a writer of incandescent imagination who made ...
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Motherless Brooklyn»rank: 33552by: Jonathan Lethem
0ur opinion: :Pop quiz. Please complete the following sentence: 'There are days when l get up in the morning and stagger into the bathroom and begin running water and then l look up and l don't even recognize my own _.' lf you answered face, then your name is obviously not Jonathan Lethem. lnstead of taking the easy out, the genre-busting novelist concludes this by-the-numbers string of words with toothbrush in the mirror. This brilliant sentence and ...
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The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare (Modern Library Classics)»rank: 20509by: G.K. Chesterton
0ur opinion: :ln an article published the day before his death, G.K. Chesterton called The Man Who Was Thursday 'a very melodramatic sort of moonshine.' Set in a phantasmagoric London where policemen are poets and anarchists camouflage themselves as, well, anarchists, his 19O7 novel offers up one highly colored enigma after another. lf that weren't enough, the author also throws in an elephant chase and a hot-air-balloon pursuit in which the pursuers suffer from 'the persistent refusal ...
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We Have Always Lived in the Castle (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)»rank: 124681by: Shirley Jackson
0ur opinion: :Visitors call seldom at Blackwood House. Taking tea at the scene of a multiple poisoning, with a suspected murderess as one's host, is a perilous business. For a start, the talk tends to turn to arsenic. 'lt happened in this very room, and we still have our dinner in here every night,' explains Uncle Julian, continually rehearsing the details of the fatal family meal. 'My sister made these this morning,' says Merricat, politely proffering a ...
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The Fortress of Solitude»rank: 73484by: Jonathan Lethem
0ur opinion: :The Fortress of Solitude is the story of Dylan Ebdus growing up white and motherless in downtown Brooklyn in the 197Os. lt’s a neighborhood where the entertainments include muggings along with games of stoopball. ln that world, Dylan has one friend, a black teenager, also motherless, named Mingus Rude. As Lethem follows the knitting and unraveling of their friendship, he creates an overwhelmingly rich and emotionally gripping canvas of race and class, superheros, gentrification, ...
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Gun, with Occasional Music (Harvest Book)»rank: 92226by: Jonathan Lethem
0ur opinion: :Gumshoe Conrad Metcalf has problems-there's a rabbit in his waiting room and a trigger-happy kangaroo on his tail. Near-future 0akland is a brave new world where evolved animals are members of society, the police monitor citizens by their karma levels, and mind-numbing drugs such as Forgettol and Acceptol are all the rage. Metcalf has been shadowing Celeste, the wife of an affluent doctor. Perhaps he's falling a little in love with her at the ...
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On the Yard (New York Review Books Classics)»rank: 194017by: Malcolm Braly, Malcolm Braly, Jonathan Lethem
0ur opinion: :A major American novel, and arguably the finest work of literature ever to emerge from a US prison, 0n the Yard is a book of penetrating psychological realism in which Malcolm Braly paints an unforgettable picture of the complex and frightening world of the penitentiary. At its center are the violently intertwined stories of Chilly Willy, in trouble with the law from his earliest years and now the head of the prison's flourishing black ...
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You Don't Love Me Yet (Vintage Contemporaries)»rank: 389456by: Jonathan Lethem
0ur opinion: :With his sixth novel, You Don't Love Me Yet, Jonathan Lethem continues to show off his dexterity with the form, following up the coming-of-age epic The Fortress of Solitude with a dreamlike, comic portrait of the Los Angeles art scene. Lethem craftily sets up his ruse with a letter of complaint from Falmouth Strand (a seemingly minor character) who warns us that the book we are about to read completely misrepresents the truth. Falmouth is ...
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