The Martians - The Hermetic Library Blog

Hermetic Library Fellow T Polyphilus reviews The Martians [Amazon, Bookshop, Publisher, Local Library] by Kim Stanley Robinson, related to the Mars Trilogy series. It had been almost a decade since I read Kim Stanley Robinson’s Mars trilogy when I finally picked up the following book The Martians. It contains a quote from Ray Bradbury’s Martian […]

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Blue Mars - The Hermetic Library Blog

Hermetic Library Fellow T Polyphilus reviews Blue Mars [Amazon, Bookshop, Libro.fm, Publisher, Local Library] by Kim Stanley Robinson, part of the Mars Trilogy Since Blue Mars is the third volume of a trilogy, I’ll start with some remarks about the whole set, now that I have it in complete view. These books are an account of the settlement and […]

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“Stop trying to pick a fight with me. Work on yourself if you’re jealous.”

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"Stop trying to pick a fight with me. Work on yourself if you’re jealous." - The Hermetic Library Blog

Stop trying to pick a fight with me. Work on yourself if you’re jealous. Emily Tesh, Some Desperate Glory [Amazon, Bookshop, Libro.fm, Publisher, Local Library] Consider also: “What a wonderful thing, to know a sure cure for giving too much of a shit.” “These are the things that life is all about. These moments. It’s […]

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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 […]

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Empty Space - The Hermetic Library Blog

Hermetic Library Fellow T Polyphilus reviews Empty Space: A Haunting [Amazon, Bookshop, Publisher, Local Library] by M John Harrison, part of the Kefahuchi Tract series. “Deep in explicatory failure, he had no way of placing himself with regard to what he had witnessed” (230). In much of his work, but especially the three innovative space opera novels […]

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