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10 best books like Let's Put the Future Behind Us (Jack Womack): The Commissar Vanishes: The Falsification of Photographs and Art in Stalin's Russia, Cowboy Angels, The Shark-Infested Custard, Orbitsville, We Never Make Mistakes: Two Short Novels, Canto for a Gypsy, The Singing Detective, Pearls are a Nuisance, The Big Red Train Ride, A Good Old-Fashioned Future

The Commissar Vanishes: The Falsification of Photographs and Art in Stalin's Russia
AuthorDavid King
ISBN0805052941
The Commissar Vanishes offers a chilling look at how one man - Joseph Stalin - manipulated the science of photography to advance his own political career and to erase memories off his victims. On Stalin's orders, purged rivals were airbrushed from group portraits, and crowd scenes were altered to depict...
Cowboy Angels
AuthorPaul McAuley
ISBN0575082232
How is it possible that such marvellous novels like Cowboy Angels and excellent writers like Paul Mcauley constantly get low ratings while hacks like Andy Weir and Ernest Cline are praised as SF wonders?Only 3,34 rating for this spectacular mix of action and hard sf,superb writing and complex plot,brilliant...
The Shark-Infested Custard
AuthorCharles Willeford
ISBN1400032512
From the master of Miami noir comes this tale of four regular guys living in a singles apartment building who experience firsthand that there's more than one type of heat in Miami.

Larry Dolman is a rather literal minded ex-cop who now works private security. Eddie Miller is an airline pilot...
Orbitsville
AuthorBob Shaw
ISBN0575070986
[He] was a man who had looked on many worlds in his lifetime, yet his face was the face of a man in shock.

You’ll be forgiven if Orbitsville reminds you a lot of Ringworld. Both deal with megastructures around a star. Around a star, just in case you missed that part; these things are huge. Where...
We Never Make Mistakes: Two Short Novels
AuthorAleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn
I am still surprised that Solzhenitsyn was such a good writer.
Of these two short novellas I particularly liked the first which out of very unpromising material weaves an elegant and moving story about the confused state of mind likely to have existed here and there in the Soviet Union in 1941. The...
Canto for a Gypsy
AuthorMartin Cruz Smith
ISBN0345306155
Another hidden gem from Smith, his first series, two books long. The protagonist lives on the edge of Roman culture in New York City and consults with/assists the police with special problems. Here, the sacred Hungarian crown of St. Stephen is to be displayed in a church before it is returned to the Communist...
The Singing Detective
AuthorDennis Potter
ISBN0571145906
I remember when this was first shown on television – I remember the effect it had on me. That television could be like that! Here was something that proved television could be something more than mindless drivel. Of course, I was wrong – and The Singing Detective was just the exception that proves...
Pearls are a Nuisance
AuthorRaymond Chandler
ISBN0140108998
'"Damn You, Eichelberger!" I said, and hit him with all my strength on the side of the jaw. He shook his head and his eyes seemed annoyed.'
Walter Gage is hired by his fiancee to find Mrs Penruddock's stolen pink pearls. His investigations need to be discreet because it would be embarrassing if word...
The Big Red Train Ride
AuthorEric Newby
ISBN1888173890
The only continuous land route between Western Europe and the Pacific coast of the USSR, the Trans-Siberian Railway covers nearly a 100 degrees of longitude, seven time zones and 5900 miles in a journey lasting 192 hours and 35 minutes. In 1977 Eric Newby set out with his wife, an official guide and a photographer...
A Good Old-Fashioned Future
AuthorBruce Sterling
ISBN0553576429
From the subversive to the antic, the uproarious to the disturbing, the stories of Bruce Sterling are restless, energy-filled journeys through a world running on empty - the visionary work of one of our most imaginative and insightful modern writers.

They live as strangers in strange lands....
The Deceivers
AuthorAlfred Bester
ISBN0671038893
The hero is Rogue Winter, King of Maori Commandos. His lover is the beautiful Demi Jeroux, who has been kidnapped by the villainous, demonic Manchu Duke of Death. Rogue must search through the entire solar system to find the missing Demi, from the Paradise of Carnal Pleasures to the bloody torture chambers...
Monumental Propaganda
AuthorVladimir Voinovich
ISBN1585678112
Vojnovič racconta la politica e la società russa della seconda metà del novecento a partire da vicende che vedono protagonisti alcuni abitanti di Dolgov, una cittadina di provincia. L’attenzione è focalizzata soprattutto su Revkina Aglaja Stepanovna, militante del PCUS dalla prima ora,...
Heavy Sand
AuthorAnatoli Rybakov
ISBN0140055355
Two main parts of Anatoly Rybakov are titled after the writer’s major novels, Children of the Arbat and Heavy Sand, and explore the continuing relevance of these works for contemporary Russia. In contrast to Germany and its former allies, which went through an effective de-Nazification campaign,...
Rumpole and the Age of Miracles
AuthorJohn Mortimer
Ever bake or cook a lot more of something than you should have just because once you got started you realized how awesome that thing is? I once cooked and ate a pound of bacon by myself. It was awesome and it nearly killed me...but mostly it was awesome.

Rumpole and the Age of Miracles was so enjoyable...
9Tail Fox
AuthorJon Courtenay Grimwood
ISBN1597800783
Bobby Zha is a Sergeant in the San Francisco Police Department. His years on the force have made him numb to the world, and the people around him, including his wife and daughter.

His sudden and unexplained murder leaves his family reeling, and the SFPD bewildered. But nobody is more bewildered...
The Black Man's Burden: Africa and the Curse of the Nation-State
AuthorBasil Davidson
ISBN0812922107
This book is subtitled "Africa and the Curse of the Nation-State", but I assume that this was added by a timid publisher, afraid that the more accurate subtitle "Africa and the Curse of Imperialism" would make the book less salable. It would nonetheless have better expressed Davidson's argument, for...
CCCP: Cosmic Communist Constructions Photographed
AuthorFrédéric Chaubin
ISBN3836525194
The fourth age of Soviet architecture

In this volume photographer Frédéric Chaubin reveals 90 buildings sited in fourteen former Soviet Republics which express what could be considered as the fourth age of Soviet architecture. They reveal an unexpected rebirth of imagination, an unknown...
Revolutionary Dreams: Utopian Vision and Experimental Life in the Russian Revolution
AuthorRichard Stites
ISBN0195055373
The revolutionary ideals of equality, communal living, proletarian morality, and technology worship, rooted in Russian utopianism, generated a range of social experiments which found expression, in the first decade of the Russian revolution, in festival, symbol, science fiction, city planning,...
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