Needle In The Groove
10 best books like Needle In The Groove (Jeff Noon): Distraction, The Year of Our War, Cyclonopedia: Complicity with Anonymous Materials, Realware, Click, Synners, Vast, Crashcourse, Eclipse Penumbra, Lucifer's Dragon
| Author | Bruce Sterling |
| ISBN | 1857989287 |
This is my favorite book.
It's so much my favorite book that I wrote an article on its 20th anniversary for Slate. I interviewed Bruce Sterling on what inspired him while writing, and why this book is still relevant right before the 2018 midterms.
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Okay, that's not a review....
| Author | Steph Swainston |
| ISBN | 0060753870 |
Unique among his fellow immortals and mortal folk alike, Jant Comet can fly. His talent is a gift and a curse that has earned him a place in the Castle Circle as Messenger to the Emperor San -- soaring high and free above the bloody battlefields of his world, carrying word back to his master of progress and...
| Author | Reza Negarestani |
| ISBN | 0980544009 |
At once a horror fiction, a work of speculative theology, an atlas of demonology, a political samizdat and a philosophic grimoire, CYCLONOPEDIA is work of theory-fiction on the Middle East, where horror is restlessly heaped upon horror. Reza Negarestani bridges the appalling vistas of contemporary...
| Author | Rudy Rucker |
| ISBN | 0380808781 |
This one might be too wild for maiden aunts. Heck, maybe it's too out-there for the run-of-the-mill reader of SF.
But for the REST OF US, it's a truly wild ride that ramps up the same wild directions as Rucker has been taking us all along. Let's go crazy!
First of all, the aliens aren't ALL...
| Author | Kristopher Young |
| ISBN | 0977605108 |
Intelligent fiction for the mentally unhinged. Click is urban grit of the highest order - a first person romp through the unreality of an unnamed metropolis in which the protagonist is stalked by his inner demons while half-heartedly trying to save the world. Fun and excitement for the whole dysfuntional...
| Author | Pat Cadigan |
| ISBN | 1568581858 |
Cyberpunk.
Is it all pretty much a mess wrapped up with mirror shades and spinal shunts, hacking and guns?
NOT this one!
Well, it was pretty much a mess of characters and mediots for more than half the novel and I'll be honest, I was rather mystified and wondering where the novel...
| Author | Linda Nagata |
| ISBN | 1937197042 |
Aboard Null Boundary, a giant starship thousands of years old, four survivors of an ancient alien war are making a desperate journey: Lot, son of a fiery prophet and carrier of an insidious virus that spreads a cult-like religious mania among those it infects; Urban, Lot's boyhood friend from the city...
| Author | Wilhelmina Baird |
| ISBN | 0441121632 |
Read for the LGBTQ Speculative Fiction Reading Challenge, the Second Best Reading Challenge, and the Women of Genre Fiction Reading Challenge.
I originally chose to read this book because I needed to read women I had not read for the Women of Genre Fiction challenge, this one had been nominated...
| Author | John Shirley |
| ISBN | 1930235011 |
THE SA HAD BEEN HIRED TO MAKE ORDER.
AND THEY PLANNED TO KEEP IT…FOREVER.
From the beginning, thwarting the Second Alliance had been the first priority of the New Resistance; now the SA had decided it was time to return the favor. Resistance could not be allowed to interfere with the progress...
| Author | Jon Courtenay Grimwood |
| ISBN | 0743478274 |
I thought I was going to love this because Mr Grimwood's creation of neoVenice really was amazing. I love it when authors give you a sense of a place and the place is almost a character in the book. I thought that was what this was going to be like. NeoVenice was beautiful and elegant and deadly (in the rich...
| Author | Simon Ings |
| ISBN | 0586214968 |
An ambitious SF novel that is at once post-cyberpunk and post-modern. Complex, multi-layered, it combines hard science, tarot and images of late 20th-century Europe to make something utterly original. And introduces a memorable new heroine to the genre...
Malise has a problem. She's come downwell...
| Author | Steve Erickson |
| ISBN | 0805053611 |
Erickson's funniest and most intensely confessional novel edges Los Angeles up against the next millennium and into a vortex of fire. The city is a surreal landscape overrun by abducted strippers, nomadic artists, reluctant pornographers, subversive newspaper columnists, alienated movie critics,...
I failed.
I made it sixty-five pages into Necroville before I sank down onto the baking-hot sands of defeat, dazzled by McDonald's bright prose, but confused, lost and thirsty for something else to read. I lay there - watching the unread novels in my collection circling - and wanted to give in,...
| Author | Jarett Kobek |
| ISBN | 1584351063 |
Ours is a century of fear. Governments and mass media bombard us with words and images: desert radicals, -rogue states, - jihadists, WMDs, existential enemies of freedom. We labor beneath myths that neither address nor describe the present situation, monstrous deceptions produced by a sound bite...
| Author | Michael Marshall Smith |
| ISBN | 0006512674 |
Spares - human clones, the ultimate health insurance. An eye for an eye, but some people are doing all the taking.
Spares - the story of Jack Randall: burnt-out, dropped out, and with a zero credit rating at the luck bank. After five years lying low on a Spares farm, looking after inmates that can't...
| Author | Mel Odom |
| ISBN | 0451457374 |
Top shadowrunner and street samurai Argent meets with a potential client only to be caught in the middle of a deadly corporation crossfire that leaves corpses scattered across the streets. It turns out the meeting was arranged by Argent's former lover, who is trapped in the Pueblo Corporate Council...
Meitene, kas nogrieza man matus
Stāstu cikla „Meitene, Kas Nogrieza Man Matus” vienojošais elements ir 90. gadi – radikālu pārmaiņu laiks Latvijā, robežperiods, kuru šobrīd jau klasificējam kā „vēsturisku”, pētām tā fenomenu un dēvējam par retro. Mēs bijām pārdzīvojuši sociālismu, bet...
