Sewer, Gas and Electric: The Public Works Trilogy
10 best books like Sewer, Gas and Electric: The Public Works Trilogy (Matt Ruff): Supercade: A Visual History of the Videogame Age, 1971-1984, Alice in Wonderland and the World Trade Center Disaster, More Tales of Pirx the Pilot, The Iron Dream, Night of the Avenging Blowfish: A Novel of Covert Operations, Love, and Luncheon Meat, 5 Novels: Alan Mendelsohn, the Boy from Mars / Slaves of Spiegel / The Snarkout Boys and the Avocado of Death / The Last Guru / Young Adult Novel, Get Your War On, Billy and Girl, Starwolf, Fairyland
| Author | Van Burnham |
| ISBN | 0262024926 |
Washington City Paper
Arts & Entertainment : Book Review
No Quarter
By Glenn Dixon • December 7, 2001
If you think videogame history is in its infancy, just get a load of videogame historiography. Stick to the stuff in English and it makes for a mighty short bookshelf:...
| Author | David Icke |
| ISBN | 0953881024 |
Since the horrendous day of September 11th 2001, the people of the world have been told the Big Lie. The official story of what happened on 9/11 is a fantasy of untruth, manipulation, contradiction and anomaly. David Icke has spent well over a decade uncovering the force that was really behind those attacks...
| Author | Stanisław Lem |
| ISBN | 0156621436 |
I like "Pirx the Pilot". First off, he's a spaceman working the dangerous but necessary profession of space transport. His universe isn't like the clean, Art Deco-inspired spaceships of the traditional Star Trek franchise. It could be right around the corner in a gas station bay, a machine shop, or...
| Author | Norman Spinrad |
| ISBN | 0553252895 |
Lord of the Swastika - Like a thick layer of stinking hot asphalt poured out on a driveway, a thick layer of racism and jingoism coats every single page of this appalling novel spun from the cramped, warped mind of an upstart writer of science fiction, a scribbler by the name of Adolf Hitler....
Night of the Avenging Blowfish: A Novel of Covert Operations, Love, and Luncheon Meat
| Author | John Welter |
| ISBN | 1565120507 |
Secret Service agent Doyle Coldiron gets into hot water before you can say, "Just the facts, ma'am." Soon he's swept up in an outrageous flood of events in this cockeyed look at Washington life and at the confusing business of falling in love in the 1990s. "Among the wittiest American novelists writing...
| Author | Daniel Pinkwater |
| ISBN | 0374423296 |
5 Novels contains five classic novels by Daniel Pinkwater, who has been quietly, subversively producing books for the most intelligent and creative children and young people in America for more than twenty-five years. (Adults may know him as a frequent commentator on National Public Radio, essayist,...
A series of strips in which office workers rant to each other about bin Laden, anthrax, suicide bombers, Enron, the war on terror, and the suspect motivation and methods of the post-9/11 American government.
The strips begin in October 2001 and run for about a year. At first they're all AMERICA...
| Author | Deborah Levy |
| ISBN | 1564782026 |
In this brilliant, inventive, tragic farce, Deborah Levy creates the ultimate dysfunctional kids, Billy and his sister Girl. Apparently abandoned years ago by their parents, they now live alone somewhere in England. Girl spends much of her time trying to find their mother, going to strangers' doors...
| Author | Edmond Hamilton |
| ISBN | 0441784224 |
Edmond Hamilton (1904-1977) was one of the true giants of golden age science fiction. He managed to create the space opera sub-genre and crank out a series of pulp novels under the Captain Future imprint. There are stories of him typing so fast the typewriter would move across his desk. Later he would...
| Author | Paul J. McAuley |
| ISBN | 0380794292 |
In the next century, an underground chemist meets and becomes obsessed with Milena, a child genius who is the ultimate product of gene-splicing technology. Milena is an advocate of the dolls--artificial constructs that have replaced extinct companion animals. Milena wishes to free the dolls from...
| Author | Jack Womack |
| ISBN | 0802134947 |
Set in a decaying and violent twenty-first-century New York, Ambient tells the story of O'Malley, a very special bodyguard for an outrageously ruthless CEO named Dryden, and of his attempts to woo Dryden's personal femme fatale, Avalon. But what begins as a simple case of unrequited love quickly turns...
| Author | Julien Green |
| ISBN | 0060634642 |
Four and Half Stars.
First Admission: Prior to reading this biography on the 13th century mendicant saint by Julien Green, I had read one other biography - Saint Francis of Assisi by G. K. Chesterton. And it was a dense work with lot of rationalizations thrown in in a way that could disarm an inquiring...
"John Shirley's prophet-in-the-cyberwilderness voice deserves high billing among the best." -- Roger Zelazny
This classic of cyberpunk literature brings John Shirley's "A Song Called Youth" trilogy to a thrilling conclusion. After the fundamentalists of the Christian Fascist Second Alliance...
| Author | Roberta Brandes Gratz |
| ISBN | 1568584385 |
In the 1970s, New York City hit rock bottom. Crime was at its highest, the middle class exodus was in high gear, and bankruptcy loomed. Many people credit New York’s “master builder” Robert Moses with turning Gotham around, despite his brutal, undemocratic. and demolition-heavy ways.Urban...
| Author | Rudy Rucker |
| ISBN | 1568582471 |
This cyberpunk adventure from Philip K. Dick award-winner, Rudy Rucker, reads like a ripped-from-Reddit romp of white hat hacking, artificial intelligence. run amok, and an unstoppable electronic 'bugs.' From a two-time winner of the Philip K. Dick award, and one of the founding fathers of cyberpunk...
| Author | Bruce Bethke |
| ISBN | 0446673145 |
When Jack Burroughs, a brilliant young computer programmer, is given his pink slip, he is offered the opportunity to use his skills for a little industrial espionage. Donning the guise of his online alter ego, Max Kool, Burroughs transforms himself into one of the hippest cybernetic surfers on the...
| Author | David Pietrusza |
| ISBN | 0786712503 |
History remembers Arnold Rothstein as the man who fixed the 1919 World Series, an underworld genius. The real-life model for The Great Gatsby's Meyer Wolfsheim and Nathan Detroit from Guys and Dolls, Rothstein was much more—and less—than a fixer of baseball games. He was everything that made...
| Author | Michel Basilières |
| ISBN | 1770412336 |
An unusual and remarkable dystopian novel
A Free Man is a satirical tall tale presented as the drug and alcohol fuelled conversation of two old friends getting reacquainted over one night. It’s also a boy-meets-girl story of the worst kind and a time travel story about a future where the...
| Author | Bill Fitzhugh |
| ISBN | 0060815302 |
Bob Dillon is a down-on-his-luck exterminator from Queens who just wants to make a killing with his radical new environmentally friendly pest elimination technique. But when he decides to advertise, his flyer falls into the hands of a shady European murder-for-hire broker who mistakes Bob for a professional...
| Author | Robert Rankin |
| ISBN | 0552147427 |
Waiting For Godalming by Robert Rankin tells the story of Lazlo Woodbine’s (the greatest detective on earth) greatest case ever – solving the mystery surrounding the murder of God. Yes, that’s right God. The Prime suspect? God’s other son – Colin. Who hired him to investigate this matter?...
