Return to Nevèrÿon
10 best books like Return to Nevèrÿon (Samuel R. Delany): Because Internet: Understanding the New Rules of Language, Ghost in the Wires: My Adventures as the World's Most Wanted Hacker, Imago, Salt Fish Girl, Octavia's Brood: Science Fiction Stories from Social Justice Movements, Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative?, Postcapitalism: A Guide to Our Future, The Night Sessions, Overclocked: Stories of the Future Present, We're Doomed. Now What?: Dispatches from the Far Side of Hope
Because Internet: Understanding the New Rules of Language
A linguistically informed look at how our digital world is transforming the English language.
Language is humanity's most spectacular open-source project, and the internet is making our language change faster and in more interesting ways than ever before. Internet conversations are...
Ghost in the Wires: My Adventures as the World's Most Wanted Hacker
| Author | Kevin D. Mitnick |
| ISBN | 0316037702 |
If they were a hall of fame or shame for computer hackers, a Kevin Mitnick plaque would be mounted the near the entrance. While other nerds were fumbling with password possibilities, this adept break-artist was penetrating the digital secrets of Sun Microsystems, Digital Equipment Corporation,...
| Author | Octavia E. Butler |
| ISBN | 0446603635 |
The last volume of the mind blowing, thought provoking Lilith’s Brood series (I prefer the original name Xenogenesis myself, it has a nice sci-fi ring to it).
Jodahs the protagonist of this book is another offspring of Lilith Iyapo. The least human of the series' central characters, especially...
| Author | Larissa Lai |
| ISBN | 0887621112 |
"Salt Fish Girl" is the mesmerizing tale of an ageless female character who shifts shape and form through time and place. Told in the beguiling voice of a narrator who is fish, snake, girl, and woman - all of whom must struggle against adversity for survival - the novel is set alternately in nineteenth-century...
Octavia's Brood: Science Fiction Stories from Social Justice Movements
| Author | Adrienne Maree Brown |
| ISBN | 1849352097 |
Whenever we envision a world without war, without prisons, without capitalism, we are producing visionary fiction. Organizers and activists envision, and try to create, such worlds all the time. This book brings twenty of them together in the first anthology of short stories to explore the connections...
Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative?
| Author | Mark Fisher |
| ISBN | 1846943175 |
After 1989, capitalism has successfully presented itself as the only realistic political-economic system - a situation that the bank crisis of 2008, far from ending, actually compounded. The book analyses the development and principal features of this capitalist realism as a lived ideological...
Postcapitalism: A Guide to Our Future
| Author | Paul Mason |
| ISBN | 1846147387 |
From Paul Mason, the award-winning Channel 4 presenter, Postcapitalism is a guide to our era of seismic economic change, and how we can build a more equal society.
Over the past two centuries or so, capitalism has undergone continual change - economic cycles that lurch from boom to bust - and...
| Author | Ken MacLeod |
| ISBN | 1841496510 |
Can you imagine a future where religious fundamentalists have caused so much damage that the world embraces a politics of 'radical secularism', marginalising all faiths and denominations by effectively failing to recognise their existence?
Sounds like paradise on Earth, right? So speaks...
| Author | Cory Doctorow |
| ISBN | 1560259817 |
Have you ever wondered what it's like to get bitten by a zombie? To live through a bioweapon attack? To have every aspect of your life governed by invisible ants? In Cory Doctorow's collection of novellas, he wields his formidable experience in technology and computing to give us mindbending sci-fi...
We're Doomed. Now What?: Dispatches from the Far Side of Hope
An American Orwell for the age of Trump, Roy Scranton faces the unpleasant facts of our day with fierce insight and harrowing honesty. We’re Doomed, Now What? penetrates to the very heart of our time.
The time we’ve been thrown into is one of alarming and bewildering change--the breakup...
