The Poison Master
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Author | Bina Shah |
ISBN | 1883285763 |
In modern, beautiful Green City, the capital of South West Asia, gender selection, war and disease have brought the ratio of men to women to alarmingly low levels. The government uses terror and technology to control its people, and women must take multiple husbands to have children as quickly as possible.
Yet...
Author | John Brunner |
ISBN | 1932100016 |
I think I might DNF this one.
Honestly, I feel like I'm reading the newspaper and the Sierra Club's journal on a particularly bad day. Knowing that this was written forty years ago makes it even worse; you mean we knew these problems were coming and still didn't fix them? We start with gas masks...
Author | Pamela Sargent |
ISBN | 1932100369 |
I really enjoyed this book's exploration of daring feminist themes like "Wouldn't it be awful if the world was controlled by domineering man-hating lesbian separatists who forced all the men to live in primitive squalor? I bet they'd ostracize any woman who even wondered if men should be treated like...
The Girl with the Mermaid Hair
Author | Delia Ephron |
ISBN | 0061542601 |
Click. Sukie Jamieson takes a selfie after her tennis lesson. Click. She takes one before she has to give a presentation in class. Click. She takes one to be sure there's nothing in her teeth after eating pizza at Clementi's. And if she can't take a selfie, she checks her reflection in windows, spoons,...
Author | Cecelia Holland |
ISBN | 0575071427 |
2000 years in the future, runaway pollution has made the Earth uninhabitable except in giant biodomes. The society is an anarchy, with disputes mediated through the Machiavellian Committee for the Revolution. Mars, Venus and the Moon support flourishing colonies of various political stripes....
Science writer Peter Levin sensed a major story behind Claudia Moriss's research into juvenile deliquency. For the American sociologist had uncovered a disturbing pattern of crimes that were unusual even in the rapidly deteriorating society of 1990s Britain.
David had made a fortune creating...
Author | Tim Powers |
ISBN | 1892284847 |
Winner of the Philip K. Dick Award: In a nuclear-ravaged California, a humble musician sets out on a dangerous quest to rescue his lost love from the clutches of a soul-devouring religious cult
In the twenty-second century, the City of Angels is a tragic shell of its former self, having long...
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,...
Author | Kozue Amano |
ISBN | 1427803129 |
(vol. 1-2 tamat)
Komik yang motor penggerak utamanya adalah latarnya, yaitu kota Venezia yang diberi sentuhan magis dan disulap jadi Neo Venezia dengan tema 'kota air masa depan'. Panel-panel yang menampilkan akses waterway, arsitektur kota yang indah, dan suasana elegan dengan para...