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zaratustra rated Jam: 3 stars

Jam by Yahtzee Croshaw

Jam is a science-fiction post-apocalyptic novel by British video-game critic Ben "Yahtzee" Croshaw. It is his second published novel after …

zaratustra rated Legacy: 5 stars

Greg Bear: Legacy (Paperback, 1996, Orbit)

Legacy by Greg Bear (The Way #3)

In this sequel to EON, Greg Bear continues to explore the possibilities presented by the asteroid Thistledown, a remnant of …

zaratustra rated Flux: 5 stars

Stephen Baxter: Flux (Paperback, 1998, Voyager)

Flux by Stephen Baxter

Imagine a race of submicroscopic humans, genetically engineered to live in the universe's most hostile environment, the turbulent superfluid mantle …

zaratustra rated Raft: 5 stars

Stephen Baxter: Raft (Paperback, 1999, HarperCollins Publishers Ltd)

zaratustra rated The Dark Side of the Sun: 4 stars

Terry Pratchett: The Dark Side of the Sun (Paperback, 1988, Corgi)

The Dark Side of the Sun by Terry Pratchett

1988 UK Reprint of the original Corgi print from the same year.

zaratustra rated The Time Machine: H.G. Wells' Groundbreaking Time Travel Tale, Classic Science Fiction: 5 stars

H. G. Wells: The Time Machine: H.G. Wells' Groundbreaking Time Travel Tale, Classic Science Fiction (2010, Megalodon Entertainment LLC.)

The Time Machine: H.G. Wells' Groundbreaking Time Travel Tale, Classic Science Fiction by H. G. Wells

The Time Traveller, a dreamer obsessed with traveling through time, builds himself a time machine and, much to his surprise, …

zaratustra rated The Postmortal: 4 stars

zaratustra rated Making Comics: 4 stars

Scott McCloud: Making Comics (Paperback, 2006, Harper Paperbacks)

Making Comics by Scott McCloud

zaratustra reviewed There Is No Year by Blake Butler

Blake Butler: There Is No Year (2011, Harper Perennial)

Butler's inventive third book is dedicated "For no one" and begins with an eerie prologue …

Review of 'There Is No Year' on 'Goodreads'

3 stars

What Eraserhead did for having a child, this does for owning a house. Basically House of Leaves stripped of pretensions of continuity or internal coherence.

Kind of peters out at the end a bit; scenes start repeating themselves and the plot kinda coasts into a stop rather than reaching anywhere in particular.