Storming the Reality Studio: A Casebook of Cyberpunk & Postmodern Science Fiction
10 best books like Storming the Reality Studio: A Casebook of Cyberpunk & Postmodern Science Fiction (Larry McCaffery): The New Negro, The Dreams Our Stuff is Made Of: How Science Fiction Conquered the World, Poem Strip, Inquisiciones, Why Write?, Happy Birthday, Jack Nicholson, The Springs of Affection, The Jolly Corner, A Poetics of Postmodernism, Mythmakers and Lawbreakers: Anarchist Writers on Fiction
| Author | Alain LeRoy Locke |
| ISBN | 0684838311 |
From the man known as the father of the Harlem Renaissance comes a powerful, provocative, and affecting anthology of writers who shaped the Harlem Renaissance movement and who help us to consider the evolution of the African American in society.
With stunning works by seminal black voices...
| Author | Thomas M. Disch |
| ISBN | 0684859785 |
From one of science fiction's most acclaimed novelists comes this engrossing journey through the books, movies, and television programs that have shaped our perspective of both the present and the future. In an uncompromising, often irreverent survey of the genre from Edgar Allan Poe to Philip K....
| Author | Dino Buzzati |
| ISBN | 1590173236 |
A New York Review Books Original
There’s a certain street—via Saterna—in the middle of Milan that just doesn’t show up on maps of the city. Orfi, a wildly successful young singer, lives there, and it’s there that one night he sees his gorgeous girlfriend Eura disappear, “like...
| Author | Jorge Luis Borges |
| ISBN | 9507310746 |
«Este que llamo Inquisiciones (por aliviar alguna vez la palabra de sambenitos y humareda) es ejecutoria parcial de mis veinticinco años. El resto cabe en un manojo de salmos, en el " Fervor de Buenos Aires " y en un cartel que las esquinas de Callao publicaron. [...] Yo no sé si hay literatura, pero...
| Author | Paul Auster |
| ISBN | 1886224145 |
There is an essay at the end of Joy Williams' book 'Ill Nature' that I believe is called 'Why I Write'. Some of these short essays in Paul Auster's 'Why Write' remind me of that Joy Williams' piece. Both are well worth the read.
While there is a place for books like Strunk and White in the writer's...
| Author | Hunter S. Thompson |
| ISBN | 0141022434 |
High priest of hedonism and godfather of gonzo journalism, Hunter S. Thompson was renowned for his counterculture masterpiece Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, which described his chemical-addled adventures in 1970s America. Taken from Thompson's brilliantly entertaining autobiography, Kingdom...
| Author | Maeve Brennan |
| ISBN | 0395937590 |
These masterly stories trace the patterns of love in three middle-class Dublin families, patterns as intricate and various as Irish lace. "Maeve Brennan's book is full of small miracles," wrote the New York Times Book Review. "The magnificent title story is wide-ranging, savage, poignant, and should...
| Author | Henry James |
| ISBN | 1419167936 |
The Jolly Corner was first published in 1908 in The English Review. Henry James describes the adventures of Spencer Brydon as he explores the empty New York house where he grew up. He encounters a "sensation more complex than had ever before found itself consistent with sanity." The Jolly Corner is the...
| Author | Linda Hutcheon |
| ISBN | 0415007062 |
I absolutely love both of Hutcheon's books I've read so far, in fact I keep returning to A Theory of Parody throughout my own work. But A Poetics of Postmodernism has a broader focus and will almost certainly become my go-to text for Hutcheon references in future.
Essentially Hutcheon's argument...
Mythmakers and Lawbreakers: Anarchist Writers on Fiction
| Author | Margaret Killjoy |
| ISBN | 1849350027 |
“Basically, anarchy is in fact the only political position that is actually possible.”—from the interview with Alan Moore, author of V for Vendetta
We all know that there is a deeply entwined relationship between personal politics and works of fiction. For centuries, authors have...
| Author | Don DeLillo |
| ISBN | 0743273060 |
Love-Lies-Bleeding, Don DeLillo's third play, is a daring, profoundly compassionate story about life, death, art and human connection.
Three people gather to determine the fate of the man who sits in a straight-backed chair saying nothing. He is Alex Macklin, who gave up easel painting...
| Author | Rudy Rucker |
| ISBN | 0936756438 |
This unruly anthology of self-consciously transgressive fiction came out in 1989 and... it shows. In some good ways—there's so much enthusiasm! Collage art and poetry and short stories and autobiographical essays... such a wide range of content! Explicit sex and violence and scatological musings,...
Trillion Year Spree: The History of Science Fiction
| Author | Brian W. Aldiss |
| ISBN | 0755100689 |
Britain's most illustrious SF writer, Brian Aldiss, provides a witty and perceptive history of this extraordinary phenomenon, set in its social and literary context. Crammed with fascinating insights, this generous spree takes us through decades of treats for the imagination: escape to other...
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يريد الكاتب لتراب سنوات العمر أن يكون في وهج الزعفران، لا ينطفئ مهما اشتدّ لهيب الضنى والألم، وتنزّي شبح الموت المنتصر. ذلك أن أجواء الطفولة الطافحة...
Escape Velocity: Cyberculture at the End of the Century
An Unforgettable Journey into the Dark Heart of the Information Age
In Escape Velocity Mark Dery takes is on an electrifying tour of the high-tech subcultures that both celebrate and critique our wired world: would-be cyborgs who believe the body is obsolete and dream of downloading their...
| Author | Michael Gray |
| ISBN | 0826469337 |
The Bob Dylan Encyclopedia is one of the most wide-ranging, informed, entertaining, provocative, and compulsively readable books ever written about popular music. It's the culmination of over thirty years of dedicated research and scholarship by Michael Gray.
Inside these pages, you'll...
En defensa de la intolerancia
| Author | Slavoj Žižek |
| ISBN | 8495363305 |
Quizás haya llegado el momento de criticar esa actitud que domina nuestro mundo: el liberalismo tolerante y multicultural. Quizás se deba rechazar la actual despolitización de la economía.
Quizás resulte, hoy en día, necesario suministrar una buena dosis de intolerancia, aunque sólo...
| Author | Paul Zollo |
| ISBN | 0306812657 |
The classic collection of candid interviews with the greatest songwriters of our time, including Bob Dylan, Brian Wilson, Patti Smith, Paul Simon, Tom Petty, and dozens more
This expanded fourth edition of Songwriters on Songwriting includes ten new interviews--with Alanis Morissette,...
| Author | Jimmy Webb |
| ISBN | 0786884886 |
Webb brings his insider's knowledge, experience, and star power to the ultimate guide for aspiring songwriters. With a combination of anecdotes, meditation, and advice, he breaks down the creative process from beginning to end--from coping with writer's block, to song construction, chords, and...
| Author | Istvan Csicsery-Ronay Jr. |
| ISBN | 0819568899 |
As the world undergoes daily transformations through the application of technoscience to every aspect of life, science fiction has become an essential mode of imagining the horizons of possibility. However much science fiction texts vary in artistic quality and intellectual sophistication,...
Ocean of Sound: Aether Talk, Ambient Sound and Imaginary Worlds
| Author | David Toop |
| ISBN | 1852427434 |
Sun Ra, Brian Eno, Lee Perry, Kate Bush, Kraftwerk, Aphex Twin, Ryuichi Sakamoto and Brian Wilson are interviewed in this extraordinary work of sonic history. It travels from the rainforests of Amazonas to virtual Las Vegas; from David Lynch's dream house high in the Hollywood Hills to the megalopolis...
| Author | Bob Dylan |
| ISBN | 1932958096 |
Direct from the mouth of America's most celebrated street poet comes a rare and diverse collection of intimate interviewsBob Dylan: The Essential Interviews features 31 of the most significant and revealing conversations with the singer, gathered in one definitive collection. Among the highlights...
