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Type: educational

Status: now reading

Authors: Plato William S. Cobb

Tags: philosophy ethics

2006-06-19

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Type: fiction

Status: now reading

Authors: Stephen King Michael Whelan

2006-06-19

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Type: special

Status: I recommend

Author: Colleen Clements

Tags: history biography fiction religion philosophy culture literature mythology evolution cosmology @finished consciousness universe ethics transendence

2006-04-24

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Type: fiction

Status: to read

Author: Robert J. Sawyer

Tags: thriller scifi religion ethics

2005-12-18

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Type: fiction

Status: to read

Author: Oscar Wilde

Tags: satire society ethics

2005-12-18

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Type: fiction

Status: to read

Author: Mary Shelley

Tags: scifi classic philosophy

2005-12-18

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Type: fiction

Status: to read

Author: H. G. Wells

Tags: scifi philosophy ethics

2005-12-18

  & 33 users

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Type: fiction

Status: to read

Author: Philip K. Dick

Tags: cyberpunk scifi surreal

Description: "Mind- and reality-bending drugs factor again and again in Philip K. Dick's hugely"Mind- and reality-bending drugs factor again and again in Philip K. Dick's hugely influential SF stories. A Scanner Darkly cuts closest to the bone, drawing on Dick's own experience with illicit chemicals and on his many friends who died from drug abuse. Nevertheless, it's blackly farcical, full of comic-surreal conversations between people whose synapses are partly fried, sudden flights of paranoid logic, and bad trips like the one whose victim spends a subjective eternity having all his sins read to him, in shifts, by compound-eyed aliens. (It takes 11,000 years of this to reach the time when as a boy he discovered masturbation.) The antihero Bob Arctor is forced by his double life into warring double personalities: as futuristic narcotics agent "Fred," face blurred by a high-tech scrambler, he must spy on and entrap suspected drug dealer Bob Arctor. His disintegration under the influence of the insidious Substance D is genuine tragicomedy. For Arctor there's no way off the addict's downward escalator, but what awaits at the bottom is a kind of redemption--there are more wheels within wheels than we suspected, and his life is not entirely wasted."...

2005-12-18

  & 16 users

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Type: fiction

Status: to read

Author: Philip K. Dick

Tags: scifi

2005-12-18

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Type: fiction

Status: to read

Author: Philip K. Dick

Tags: scifi collection

2005-12-18