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| Willis is one of my favorite writers on cultural issues, rock music, and feminism. This volume from the early 1990s has little musical commentary, but a great deal of reflection on the previous generation's worth of feminist (and liberal Jewish) poli ...more | |
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Environmental disaster fiction circa 1955, involving a small town besieged by a flood, from a pair of old-hand science fiction writers. Reasonably entertaining. (I happened to read the book while an atmospheric river was hitting my area, possibly maki ...more |
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| A difficult book to review. The life story of Celine and the Babcocks continue apace. There is some interesting historical detail. The story gets diverted by hallucinatory sequences in which RAW dispenses philosophy. The series sadly truncated, unres ...more | |
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| Second volume of the historical series; the characters still are of interest, but the author has made the decision to annotate the volume heavily to explain the references; some of the footnotes are genuine although I have no tried to determine wheth ...more | |
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| This may be one of Robert Anton Wilson's most straightforward narratives, an 18th century historical novel (not detailing the 'origin' of the Illuminati, which are already well established at this point), with a compelling cast as they maneuver their ...more | |
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| I first read the book several years ago, and have glanced at it periodically since, and decided it was time for a reread. Dating from the 1990s the discussion of artificial intelligence and machine translation is slightly dated, but that is only a pe ...more | |
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| This is a bit of a tome, and a lot of it feels excessive to me ... whole chapters nothing but analyses of the political landscape of technological advances. In addition, the main protagonist doesn't even appear until a third of the way through the no ...more | |
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| Well-written and documented account of the history of the way industry and political figures have used a handful of willing scientists to undermine public belief in scientific process and consensus. Difficult reading only because it is so infuriating ...more | |
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| Wilson's conclusion is a more linear narrative than the first book and less sexually explicit (in an obvious way ... there is a lot of sex talk but using bizarre euphemisms) than the second book ... to the degree that there is a coherent plot, events ...more | |
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| A more cohesive narrative than the first book of the trilogy, and an awful lot of dirty jokes and sex scenes, which manage not to be terribly erotic, all interspersed with Wilson's usual astute observations about politics and anthropology. ...more | |
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