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Allan’s 2022 Year in Books
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Allan Dyen-Shapiro
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Kim Stanley Robinson, Neal Stephenson, Paolo Bacigalupi, William Gibso
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| This book was written by an environmental journalist. As such, it is more engaging in its writing style than typical works of ecology, especially the first part. Or, maybe it's because I was unfamiliar with the work on "flying rivers" (the role of tr ...more | |
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| This book uses the science fiction trope of the multiverse and highly non-linear story structure to get inside the mind of a bullied kid who shoots up a high school or doesn't and goes to jail or doesn't and ends up worshipping or hating the ancient ...more | |
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| I read this because I saw it referenced in a science fiction novel. It seemed important. It was. I won't insult the breadth of scholarship by trying to summarize it. I'll merely point out what I thought was striking. In building the idea of racial ca ...more | |
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| I received a pre-publication copy of this book from Net Galley in exchange for writing a review. I have also met the author; we participated on panels together at a science fiction convention less than a year ago, and we had the opportunity to hang o ...more | |
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| There isn't a accepted phrase to describe it, but some fantasy is quite reality-adjacent. The human situations, the world, the history, are nearly all those of our world, but there is one difference where the fantasy element comes in. In this story, ...more | |
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| I'd listened to the album many times before starting to read this collection. I saw the movie afterward. As such, I can only speak to that order of experience. The album introduced me to what I'd be looking at--a dystopia in which memory could be era ...more | |
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| A classic I hadn't read. Sure, some of the specifics are dated--the struggle between Black nationalism and Marxism was of the time and the following two decades; not so much now. The concept--invisibility--that nobody sees the narrator (and the Black ...more | |
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| This novel is two simultaneous experiences. One is for the lover of slasher movies, as the protagonist is obsessed with them, envisions the events as being part of a slasher, and then actually is in a slasher, just having guessed wrong on who was the ...more | |
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| I now see there are reviews telling the reader of the Kindle edition not to miss the Introduction. I am actually glad Kindle jumped me straight to the "novel" part of the book. I had read the review that first intrigued me so long ago that I had forg ...more | |
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| Combining climate fiction, queer and Jewish fiction, and surrealism would never have occurred to me, but boy does it work. A storm has submerged Houston and made a refugee out of the protagonist, Noah. The narrative begins as near-future realism, wit ...more | |
