Anyone still reading this might be interested in this link:

http://fatgirlreading.com/books-for-ferguson/

both for charitable purposes and to have a look at the book list.

I've read three books by Christopher Buehlmann recently, "The Necromancer's House", "Between Two Fires" and "The Lesser Dead". Let me say that if you're looking for some well-written, sharply-drawn, INVENTIVE horror novels, look no further ( Read more... )

1. 2666 by Roberto Bolaño ( Read more... )

Seriously, doesn't anybody care?

I tried to comment to it, but wasn't able to.   I am somewhat freaked out because as that post came up I was literally just that second writing about him.

Crap.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silverlock

Not that The Phantom Tollbooth isn't for grownups too....

http://www.npr.org/2011/10/25/141240217/my-accidental-masterpiece-the-phantom-tollbooth

Why isn't this on everyone's top 20?

A retired military man moves into a neighbourhood in which lives a widow with a mean sense of humour and a knack for caricatures. At the end of it the two marry; I don't think the soldier ever realises she's been making fun of him the entire time.

Does anyone know of any sf novels that explicitly use the result of climate change trends as a premise/background? Always Coming Home was written before climate change really entered the public mind; Margaret Atwood's sf might be written in a higher temperature world but I don't think it's explicitly stated; I thought maybe The City Not Long After ( Read more... )