System Collapse - The Hermetic Library Blog
Hermetic Library Fellow T Polyphilus reviews System Collapse [Amazon, Bookshop, Libro.fm (unabridged) (abridged, dramatized), Publisher, Local Library] by Martha Wells, book 7 of the Murderbot series. This book has an exciting story, and it reveals more of the implicit worldbuilding that has been going on in previous Murderbot Diaries. But it has practically no narrative […]
"What a wonderful thing, to know a sure cure for giving too much of a shit." - The Hermetic Library Blog
What a wonderful thing, to know a sure cure for giving too much of a shit. Emma Mieko Candon, The Archive Undying [Amazon, Bookshop, Libro.fm, Publisher, Local Library] Consider also: “The Forest comes to us in dreams, in whispers. The Forest is in us.” “The membranes that separate us from insanity, from the fall, the […]
Dying Inside - The Hermetic Library Blog
Hermetic Library Fellow T Polyphilus reviews Dying Inside [Amazon (Alt) (Alt), Bookshop, Publisher, Local Library] by Robert Silverberg Silverberg’s speaker-protagonist David Selig is a freak telepath who has concealed his talent for his whole life and is now losing it, i.e. “dying inside.” The book is framed as a memoir; it includes biographical reflection along […]
Starship Titanic - The Hermetic Library Blog
Hermetic Library Fellow T Polyphilus reviews Douglas Adams’s Starship Titanic: A Novel [Amazon, Bookshop, Abebooks, Publisher, Local Library] by Terry Jones, introduction by Douglas Adams. This novel is a pleasant little romp. The opening chapters set up the dilemma of the sabotaged starship on its original alien world of Blerontin, and I didn’t find it […]
"The opium kissed your blood to soothe the throb of NOW, and you fucked it and let it fuck you because no one else ever has loved you true and dear." - The Hermetic Library Blog
The opium kissed your blood to soothe the throb of NOW, and you fucked it and let it fuck you because no one else ever has loved you true and dear. Caitlin R Kiernan, Agents of Dreamland [Amazon, Bookshop, Publisher, Local Library] Consider also: Totalitopia “Alice: Way more people will get hurt if you don’t […]
Use of Weapons - The Hermetic Library Blog
Hermetic Library Fellow T Polyphilus reviews Use of Weapons [Amazon, Bookshop, Publisher, Local Library] by Iain M Banks, book 3 of The Culture series. The third novel of Ian Banks’ Culture concerns an agent Zalkawe recruited for chiefly military work by the Culture’s Special Circumstances operative Sma. He is not himself a Culture man, nor […]
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