True Names

Author	Hannu Rajaniemi
ISBN	0575088877

Jean le Flambeur gets up in the morning and has to kill himself before his other self can kill him first. Just another day in the Dilemma Prison. Rescued by the mysterious Mieli and her flirtatious spacecraft, Jean is taken to the Oubliette, the Moving City of Mars, where time is a currency, memories are...

Author	Scott Snyder
ISBN	1632153807

Everything you thought you knew about witches is wrong. They are much darker, and they are much more horrifying. Wytches takes the mythology of witches to a far creepier, bone-chilling place than readers have dared venture before. When the Rooks family moves to the remote town of Litchfield, NH to escape...

Author	C.J. Cherryh
ISBN	0886778697

They were the mri - tall, secretive, bound by honor and the rigid dictates of their society. For aeons this golden-skinned, golden-eyed race had provided the universe mercenary soldiers of almost unimaginable ability. But now the mri have faced an enemy unlike any other - an enemy whose only way of war...

Author

Octavia E. Butler

Contains the short story Bloodchild only.

Years ago a group known as the Terrans left Earth in search of a life free of persecution. Now they live alongside the Tlic, an alien race who face extinction; their only chance of survival is to plant their larvae inside the bodies of the humans.

When...

Author	Cormac McCarthy
ISBN	0330314912

"They are gone now. Fled, banished in death or exile, lost, undone. Over the land sun and wind still move to burn and sway the trees, the grasses. No avatar, no scion, no vestige of that people remains. On the lips of the strange race that now dwells there their names are myth, legend, dust."
-- Cormac...

Author	Georges Simenon
ISBN	1590172280

On the outskirts of Paris, a prostitute is found murdered in a vacant lot. In a seedy apartment house nearby lives pasty, fat Mr. Hire. Mr. Hire, who earns his living through a petty postal scam, is a convicted pornographer, a peeping Tom, and, once a week, the unlikely star of a Parisian bowling club, where...

Author	James Hillman
ISBN	0060921013

As some others noted, Hillman is very cerebral and can be pompous (I do not always agree with him)
This is not a breezy book at all. But Hillman is a stunningly original thinker, and I come back and dip into this now and then.

He is an offshoot from Jung- but definitely does not see eye to eye with...

Author

Liu Cixin

3.5/5 stars

Cixin Liu greatly examined the effects of obsession, science, and weaponry in Ball Lightning.

I’m a fan of Cixin Liu’s Remembrance of Earth Past trilogy. The second book in that series, The Dark Forest remains in my personal top three sci-fi novels of all time and will...

Author

Mackey Chandler

It’s hard living next to a giant, even a friendly one, much less a clumsy hostile giant. Earth’s unfriendly billions were an unpredictably restive presence. The Kingdom of Central was on the Moon, and the three allied habitats of Home were already forced to move from Low Earth Orbit to beyond the...

Author	Fabcaro
ISBN	2352121167

Un auteur de bande dessinée, alors qu'il fait ses courses, réalise qu'il n'a pas sa carte de fidélité sur lui. La caissière appelle le vigile, mais quand celui-ci arrive, l'auteur le menace et parvient à s'enfuir. La police est alertée, s'engage alors une traque sans merci, le fugitif traversant...