Immediatism
9 best books like Immediatism (Peter Lamborn Wilson): Labyrinths: Selected Stories and Other Writings, The Crying of Lot 49, Hominids, The Chronoliths, Junky, Civilization and Its Discontents, The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge, The Western Lands, The ABCs of D&D
Labyrinths: Selected Stories and Other Writings
| Author | Jorge Luis Borges |
| ISBN | 0811200124 |
Although his work has been restricted to the short story, the essay, and poetry, Jorge Luis Borges of Argentina is recognized all over the world as one of the most original and significant figures in modern literature. In his preface, Andre Maurois writes: "Borges is a great writer who has composed only...
Suffused with rich satire, chaotic brilliance, verbal turbulence and wild humor, The Crying of Lot 49 opens as Oedipa Maas discovers that she has been made executrix of a former lover's estate. The performance of her duties sets her on a strange trail of detection, in which bizarre characters crowd...
| Author | Robert J. Sawyer |
| ISBN | 0765345005 |
Neanderthals have developed a radically different civilization on a parallel Earth. A Neanderthal physicist, Ponter Boddit, accidentally passes from his universe into a Canadian underground research facility. Fortunately, a team of human scientists, including expert paleo-anthropologist...
| Author | Robert Charles Wilson |
| ISBN | 0812545249 |
Scott Warden is a man haunted by the past-and soon to be haunted by the future.
In early twenty-first-century Thailand, Scott is an expatriate slacker. Then, one day, he inadvertently witnesses an impossible event: the violent appearance of a 200-foot stone pillar in the forested interior....
| Author | William S. Burroughs |
| ISBN | 0142003166 |
Before his 1959 breakthrough, Naked Lunch, an unknown William S. Burroughs wrote Junky, his first novel. It is a candid eye-witness account of times and places that are now long gone, an unvarnished field report from the American post-war underground. Unafraid to portray himself in 1953 as a confirmed...
Civilization and Its Discontents
| Author | Sigmund Freud |
| ISBN | 0393301583 |
It stands as a brilliant summary of the views on culture from a psychoanalytic perspective that he had been developing since the turn of the century. It is both witness and tribute to the late theory of mind—the so-called structural theory, with its stress on aggression, indeed the death drive, as...
The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge
| Author | Jean-François Lyotard |
| ISBN | 0816611734 |
This book explores science and technology, makes connections between these epistemic, cultural, and political trends, and develops profound insights into the nature of our post-modernity. Many definitions of postmodernism focus on its nature as the aftermath of the modern industrial age when...
| Author | William S. Burroughs |
| ISBN | 0140094563 |
The Western Lands is the eagerly awaited new novel by the most visionary American novelist of the twentieth century–a haunting Book of the Dead for the nuclear age.
Every new work from the pen of William S. Burroughs is an important literary event. This is especially so in the case of The Western...
| Author | Ivan Van Norman |
| ISBN | 0786966661 |
A Dungeons & Dragons children's book that captures the wonder and whimsy that made you fall in love with the game.
"An adorable book for geeks big and little."--Felicia Day, author of New York Times bestseller You're Never Weird on the Internet (Almost)
A is for Adventure.
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