The Heat Death of the Universe and Other Stories

8 best books like The Heat Death of the Universe and Other Stories (Pamela Zoline): The Sheltering Sky, The Book of Night Women, Apology, We Who Are About To..., Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative?, A Wolf at the Table, Nine Hundred Grandmothers, God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater

The Sheltering Sky

Author	Paul Bowles
ISBN	0141023422

In this classic work of psychological terror, Paul Bowles examines the ways in which Americans apprehend an alien culture--and the ways in which their incomprehension destroys them. The story of three American travelers adrift in the cities and deserts of North Africa, The Sheltering Sky is at once...

The Book of Night Women

Author	Marlon James
ISBN	1594488576

The Book of Night Women is a sweeping, startling novel, a true tour de force of both voice and storytelling. It is the story of Lilith, born into slavery on a Jamaican sugar plantation at the end of the eighteenth century. Even at her birth, the slave women around her recognize a dark power that they and she...

Apology

Author	Plato
ISBN	0865163480

The Apology of Socrates is Plato's version of the speech given by Socrates as he unsuccessfully defended himself in 399BCE against the charges of "corrupting the young, and by not believing in the gods in whom the city believes, but in other daimonia that are novel" (24b). "Apology" here has its earlier...

We Who Are About To...

Author	Joanna Russ
ISBN	0819567590

A multi-dimensional explosion hurls the starship's few passengers across the galaxies and onto an uncharted barren tundra. With no technical skills and scant supplies, the survivors face a bleak end in an alien world. One brave woman holds the daring answer, but it is the most desperate one possible.

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Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative?

Author	Mark Fisher
ISBN	1846943175

After 1989, capitalism has successfully presented itself as the only realistic political-economic system - a situation that the bank crisis of 2008, far from ending, actually compounded. The book analyses the development and principal features of this capitalist realism as a lived ideological...

A Wolf at the Table

Author	Augusten Burroughs
ISBN	0312342020

“As a little boy, I had a dream that my father had taken me to the woods where there was a dead body. He buried it and told me I must never tell. It was the only thing we’d ever done together as father and son, and I promised not to tell. But unlike most dreams, the memory of this one never left me. And sometimes…I...

Nine Hundred Grandmothers

Author

R.A. Lafferty

Lafferty's Nine Hundred Grandmothers collects the following stories:
• Nine Hundred Grandmothers
• Land of the Great Horses
• Ginny Wrapped in the Sun
• The Six Fingers of Time
• Frog on the Mountain
• All the People
• Primary Education of the Camiroi
•...

God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater

Author

Kurt Vonnegut

Second only to Slaughterhouse-Five of Vonnegut's canon in its prominence and influence, God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater (1965) presents Eliot Rosewater, an itinerant, semi-crazed millionaire wandering the country in search of heritage and philanthropic outcome, introducing the science fiction...