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Space 1889

Martian liftwood groves, Venusian dinosaurs and swarms of intelligent insect colonies hiding beneath the lunar surface, Space 1889 has it all! Following the vien of the subgenre known in literary circles as Steampunk, Space 1889 takes the technology and ideas of the industrial revolution that much farther with solar-powered boilerships that plow through the heavens and send the people of an

Altered Carbon

Imagine a world where the mind has been digitized, where every man, woman and child in the universe has been downloaded into a "cortical stack" that sits in the spine and runs whatever body it's attached to, whether it be the body a person was born in, a genetically-engineered and boosted custom form-- or someone else's body entirely. In the world of Richard K. Morgan's "Altered Carbon", Takeshi

Space suit

I'm just going to come out and say it: This book was juvenile. Maybe I've been spoiled by the power and depth of Starship Troopers and Stranger in a Strange Land, but dang. I have to say that I was expecting more.Okay, so it wasn't bad, not really. It was. . . unimpressive enough that I put it down a few times and almost didn't pick it up again, but I still got through it and got something out of

Scar Night

A truly vivid and well illustrated read, Alan Campbell's Scar Night is full of gorgeous and competently fleshed-out imagery, making it the kind of visually staggering read that would lend itself well to film. Set in the city of Deepgate, a massive steampunk-esque metropolis suspended over an equally massive abyss by a network of gigantic chains, Scar Night is the tale of a young man named Dill

Invictus & Veritas

Just added some new pieces to the site at Von Singer Aether & Steamworks ltd. Check it out, enjoy, and get to know my alter ego, the adventurous inventor Cirrus Oppenheimer Von Singer!The world of steam and phlogiston awaits!

Team Edward

Just got my shirt in today and had to take a trendy girl photo complete with lip pout. Enjoy! Kudos go out to my baby for this one! ♥ ♥ ♥

Cunts for Christ

Despite their arguably pornographic sounding titles, I've found that Shawn Wunjo's books are almost certainly anything but pornographic. Her approach seems to be simple: offend the reader as much as possible in a way that gets the message across. Cunts for Christ is both fantastically offensive and packed with messages that shouldn't be missed.Where do I start when it comes to laying the praise

Catcher in the Rye

Published in 1959, this novel, which is considered by many to be a classic and important piece of American literature, has got to be one of the most hated novels from that list of books you're forced to read in highschool. It's like "Lord of the Flies"-- you read it because you have to, because the school says you have to, and there's going to be a test on it. It's famous, everybody knows it, and

Stars My Destination

I have a certain soft place somewhere in my heart for classic sci-fi. You know the kind I mean, the kind where people fly around in rocket ships, the people with the real power have highly advanced minds capable of all sorts of feats of telepathy, and sex is always just around the corner. In "The Stars My Destination," Bester provides all that and more.Where do I stand on it? Well, it's a fun