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Type: fiction

Status: I recommend

Author: George Orwell

Tags: future 1984 dystopian satire

Description: typically scary of George Orwell to conjure this up. Really, if I had read this just aftertypically scary of George Orwell to conjure this up. Really, if I had read this just after he had published it way back then, I would've been way too terrified to anticipate the coming of the year 1984. Privacy forfeited and complete dictatorship, men and women lost and hiding their real characteristics from the all-seeing big brother--the elements of the best satrical novel i've ever read....

2008-02-03

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Type: fiction

Status: I recommend

Author: Philip K. Dick

Tags: drugs dystopia arctor Bob d donna narcotics substance

Description: This sad tale about deathly drugs and unexpected narcotics agents is my favorite PKD book soThis sad tale about deathly drugs and unexpected narcotics agents is my favorite PKD book so far. By and by, even with their flaws, i came to love bob arctor and his housemates. They seemed to drift in and out of their delusions so naturally, that I forget to index what's real and what's not....

2008-02-03

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Type: fiction

Status: I recommend

Author: Frederick Pohl

Tags: fantasy science fiction space universe Port heechee station gateway robinette broadhead

Description: Robinette Broadhead is definitely not perfect, yet this book about his experience at gatewayRobinette Broadhead is definitely not perfect, yet this book about his experience at gateway perfectly satisfies the avid s.f. reader....

2008-02-03