A relatively short story on the indifferent life of the single early-30s male and how little difference there is between being 'blasé' and being plain medically depressed.
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zaratustra rated Accelerando: 2 stars
Accelerando by Charles Stross
The Singularity. It is the era of the posthuman. Artificial intelligences have surpassed the limits of human intellect. Biotechnological beings …
zaratustra rated Fluid Concepts and Creative Analogies: 3 stars
Fluid Concepts and Creative Analogies by Douglas R. Hofstadter
Readers of earlier works by Douglas Hofstadter will find this book a natural extension of his style and his ideas …
zaratustra rated Haunted: 4 stars
zaratustra reviewed Whatever by Michel Houellebecq
Whatever (French: Extension du domaine de la lutte, literally "extension of the domain of struggle") …
Review of 'Whatever' on 'Goodreads'
4 stars
zaratustra rated Frog Music: 4 stars
Frog Music by Emma Donoghue, Emma Donoghue (Back Bay Books [$17.00 US])
"Emma Donoghue's explosive new novel, based on an unsolved murder in 1876 San Francisco. Summer of 1876: San Francisco is …
zaratustra reviewed This Is the Way the World Ends by James Morrow
Review of 'This Is the Way the World Ends' on 'Goodreads'
4 stars
A punch in the gut. Several punches in the gut.
zaratustra rated Raising Steam: 3 stars
Raising Steam by Pu lai qi (Pratchett, Terry) (Discworld, #40)
To the consternation of the patrician, Lord Vetinari, a new invention has arrived in Ankh-Morpork - a great clanging monster …
zaratustra reviewed Perdido Street Station Tome 1 by China Miéville
Perdido Street Station is a novel by British writer China Miéville, published in 2000 by …
Review of 'Perdido Street Station Tome 1' on 'Goodreads'
2 stars
I did not like this at all. Beside the overly ornate descriptions of the titular place that, technically, does not feature into the story at all, the attack of monsters that are invincible except when they aren't, and the character arcs that never quite get finalized, the treatment of the female protagonist made me feel disgusted, specially since it all happens because she dared to do something her man doesn't know of. Because women just don't listen am i right guys.
And I'm not even getting into the birdman.
zaratustra rated Gun machine: 4 stars
zaratustra rated Mogworld: 5 stars
zaratustra rated The Time Ships: 4 stars
The Time Ships by Stephen Baxter
The Time Ships is a 1995 hard science fiction novel by Stephen Baxter. A canonical sequel to the 1895 novella …
zaratustra rated The Pride of Chanur (Alliance-Union Universe): 5 stars
The Pride of Chanur (Alliance-Union Universe) by C.J. Cherryh
No one at Meetpoint Station had ever seen a creature like the Outsider. Naked-hided, blunt toothed and blunt-fingered, Tully was …
zaratustra rated The Wee Free Men: 3 stars
The Wee Free Men by Pu lai qi (Pratchett, Terry) (Discworld, #30)
"Another world is colliding with this one," said the toad. "All the monsters are coming back."
"Why?" said Tiffany.
"There's …
