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It's still pretty good, but it lacks a bit of the filthy rat energy that powered John Dies At The End.

Ever noticed all stories about time travel end in the same way?

Gory, gratuitously edgy stuff that has very little to do with the movie (as noted in the book itself). Basically if Chuck Palahniuk was told to write a zombie story and told to make it "extra freaky" and "don't worry much about coherence".

A collection of some of the best of qntm's stories, along with a couple of rewrites and a few new ones. Only issue I can see is that the book should be larger and more expensive.

Shorter than Meanwhile, with a lot of page content taken by bits of world map. Still, there's a nice puzzle in it, it's not expensive, and it's always good to see Shiga doing what he loves.

basically a book version of the classic biomech shooter EXTREME MEATPUNKS FOREVER.

This book has "we switched to perforce and everything broke down" as a plot point and it is the most relatable a book has ever been.

About the only complaint i would have is that it's a story of fallible humans - so fallible, in fact, that if it wasn't for the strong writing you'd be wondering whether you should care about them at all.

A Big Dumb Object has put the earth on a delay - each year inside equals a hundred million years outside.

You'd imagine this would make the tale somehow more brisk in its telling. Instead we focus on Elon Musk's best friend and accompain his excruciatingly long and boring life for an excruciatingly long and boring time, while Elon Musk attempts to rescue earth.

Correction: this is an idealized Elon Musk - a sexless, humorless creature that only cares about playing chess with aliens, instead of the meme-loving car salesman we have in our non-fictional world.

It's the neoliberal approach to crisis management: in case of apocalypse, trust the richest, most tech-savvy person with all your resources and defend them to the death from the evil fanatics, the government and the media, while you yourself just focus on living your life the exact same way you've been doing.

Imagine if every one of the most notable events of the 20th century was orchestrated by Mickey Mouse. Not a real mouse or mouse-like creature, the fictional IP Mickey Mouse, as it exists in our world.

Why? dunno. This manga's not telling.

Better known as "that manga where Lee Harvey Oswald is a protagonist for a while".

The book that Infinite Jest tries to be. On the final quarter of the book it runs out of the crazy energy that conceals the fundamental dispassion of all the characters; would have an extra star otherwise.

One strange little tale. Post-humans uploaded to a spaceship, that despite having technical occupations and having their own life mediated by technology, lead an oddly poetic, metaphorical life.

I'd rate the first half of the book 5 stars. The latter half of the book gets a bit muddled as some plot lines take longer to explain than they do to resolve (what if aliens could hide by only moving when the eye moves? nothing very helpful for them that's what), and an extended tirade on the uselessness of self-awareness for survival which i think i disagree with - philosophical reasoning aside, a dog knowing that it is a dog would seem very useful in a wide variety of survival situations.

turns out i have an extremely specific and predictable taste for reading