BOOKS OVERVIEW NOT FINISHED In late 2022 and crossing over into January 2023, I read the books in Octavia Butler’s Patternist series. There is an additional book, titled Survivor, that was originally published as part of the series, but which she subsequently disavowed and allowed to go out-of-print because she realized it was pretty shoddy […]
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2015 Book list (asterisk indicates books I really enjoyed) In the Miso Soup – Ryu Murakami Game of Thrones and Philosophy – edited by Henry Jacoby and William Irwin The Crash of 2016* – Thom Hartmann The Martian* – Andy Weir Super Justice Force – David J. Walker Hitler’s War – Harry Turtledove Black Girl […]
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The eagerly awaited seventh installment of the popular space opera series Star Wars, subtitled “The Force Awakens”, is set to hit theaters later this month. But earlier this fall, a small group of racist Twitter trolls set off yet another skirmish in the culture wars by launching a new hashtag in response to the film’s […]
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