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| Ros Serey Sothea was one of the most popular pop singers in Cambodia during the 1960s and 70s, and this graphic novel offers an account of her career, complete with a soundtrack (of her and other musicians of the era, predominantly ones who appear in ...more | |
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| Baron's account of the scientific controversy over the existence of life on Mars, and the subsequent moment in Western (mainly American) culture in which it became a matter of common acceptance and broad general interest, mainly focuses on Percival L ...more | |
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| This ought to have been right up my alley ... a queer New Yorker fallen through time to the year 1300 ... but I found the book disappointing. The protagonist was tedious (I finally began skipping through the chapters about his personal emotional hist ...more | |
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Trace Elements: Conversations on the Project of Science Fiction and Fantasy
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| Jo Walton (one of my favorite F&SF writers) and Ada Palmer (whom I have not read but certainly plan to now) produce a series of essays and memoirs about the history and context of science fiction, fantasy, and fandom, interspersed with some short poe ...more | |
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| Nagel's slim book attempts to tackle most of the great themes of philosophy, and to do so in commonsensical language rather than getting bogged down in technical terminology. He often circles around subjects rather than making definite arguments. He ...more | |
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| Graphic biography of anarchist novelist and journalist B Traven, translated by Donald Nicholson-Smith. There is a great deal of fascinating information here, both about the writer as well as the political spheres in which he operated (and frequently ...more | |
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| A series of essays covering different aspects of disability, how it interacts with sexuality (and there are fairly detailed accounts of kinky sexuality in the book), politics, finances, and spirituality. Not being disabled myself I can't speak to the ...more | |
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| This is categorised as 'fantasy' because of its setting in an archaic foreign land, although there us nary a spot of magic or fantastic creatures involved. It could well be an historical novel, with a few tweaks. Mainly it's a story of economic and p ...more | |
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| I'm going to mention Don Christensen's name up front; as translator of this graphic novel from the French his name deserves to be on the credits not hidden in small print in the back along the indicia. He lends a competent hard-boiled narrative to th ...more | |
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| I rarely connect well with French noir fiction, perhaps this is some innate American optimism they will laugh at but it always strikes me as unpleasantly voyeuristic. This struck me as the same, for all the novelty of the two female detectives on the ...more | |
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