First published in the October 1940 issue of Astounding Science-Fiction, this short story was the basis for the classic movie 'The Day The Earth Stood Still'
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Wednesday, 25 January 2012
Tuesday, 24 January 2012
The Octopus: A Story of California by Frank Norris
The first part of a planned but uncompleted trilogy, The Epic of Wheat. It describes the raising of wheat in California, and conflicts between the wheat growers and a railway company. Norris was inspired by the role of the Southern Pacific Railroad in events surrounding the Mussel Slough Tragedy - Wikipedia
"Norris's antagonists are not cardboard heavies but conflicted, complex characters, who often resort to blaming the very system they thrive in...Nor are the novel's farmers always long-suffering victims, but often headstrong and ill-tempered figures, whose pride precipitates violence." - Zola in San Francisco
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Sunday, 22 January 2012
Collections of Nothing by William Davies King
The University of Chicago Press Free ebook of the Month
"What makes this book, bred of a midlife crisis, extraordinary is the way King weaves his autobiography into the account of his collection, deftly demonstrating that the two stories are essentially one.… His hard-won self-awareness gives his disclosures an intensity that will likely resonate with all readers, even those whose collections of nothing contain nothing at all."—New Yorker
"King’s book is short but dense, encompassing in 163 pages an autobiography, a self-psychoanalysis, an apologia, and an initial finding aid to his collection. He enjoys wordplay: puns, chiasmus, unexpected and creative repetition. His sentences can act like linguistic traps, making you linger to puzzle them out. They give the sense of someone trapped by his own hyper-creativity" - bookslut.com review
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(free only until January 31st. 2012)
"What makes this book, bred of a midlife crisis, extraordinary is the way King weaves his autobiography into the account of his collection, deftly demonstrating that the two stories are essentially one.… His hard-won self-awareness gives his disclosures an intensity that will likely resonate with all readers, even those whose collections of nothing contain nothing at all."—New Yorker
"King’s book is short but dense, encompassing in 163 pages an autobiography, a self-psychoanalysis, an apologia, and an initial finding aid to his collection. He enjoys wordplay: puns, chiasmus, unexpected and creative repetition. His sentences can act like linguistic traps, making you linger to puzzle them out. They give the sense of someone trapped by his own hyper-creativity" - bookslut.com review
Read it!
(free only until January 31st. 2012)
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