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10,954 medlemmar
157 recensioner
3.9
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Tillagt 2012-01-09, 01:08 AM
- 75 Members
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- Förklaringar
- paradoxosalpha: Specifically the first, shorter edition. Avoid the posthumous reversion of the author's edits that created the inferior book released in the 1990s.
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10,190 medlemmar
228 recensioner
3.9
Global rankning 28
Rankning 128.69
Tillagt 2012-01-10, 06:02 PM
- 62 Members
- timspalding, andyl, hailelib, mark, joeldinda, Milesc, psybre, AsYouKnow_Bob, Stav, Rtrace, ayaeckel, sdobie, grizzly.anderson, mkjones, paradoxosalpha, b1_, goldenmoon, majkia, absurdeist, cthulhuslibrarian, Surtac, stellarexplorer, BeckyJG, okeres, blackdove07, geitebukkeskjegg, Balkan, santhony, jerry-book, sturlington, freetrader, jasmaynard, marycloseburn, lewbs, LiveAndrew, LisaMaria_C, Rbrancher2, Doey, mike_frank, Bluewolf0411, spaceowl, RVerde, Jarandel, gypsysmom, bibliopolitan, ahef1963, beth623, horacio.salazar, dsp501, Vulco1, timetunnel, Pajamas, SFF1928-1973, ManWithAnAgenda, Antoavrg, SpotofBorg, DCJeffrey, mjones329, NerdyBookingham, BrandonAzzarella, DavidRFWarner, shecht91,pammab ,MikeBriggs ,amobogio ,dukeallen ,hhenry3
- Förklaringar
- paradoxosalpha: I was an adolescent when I learned about apotheosis from this book.
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3,349 medlemmar
122 recensioner
½ 3.7
Global rankning 139
Rankning 20.16
Tillagt 2013-10-22, 09:38 AM
- 11 Members
- psybre, AsYouKnow_Bob, sdobie, paradoxosalpha, dhm, falkman, okeres, marycloseburn, Jarandel, Rick_Deckard, BomboChipolata
- Förklaringar
- paradoxosalpha: I read this as a novel, and only learned long afterwards that it was written as a cycle of novellas.
4
7,606 medlemmar
162 recensioner
4
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Rankning 55
Tillagt 2012-01-30, 04:54 PM
- 31 Members
- andyl, mark, Stav, Rtrace, paradoxosalpha, cthulhuslibrarian, amobogio, clong, m_island, Pamela110, Balkan, scottd, Myyst, freetrader, sesanderson, dot.zen, thecoroner, alexdelarge, Matteocalosi, Endobiker, diagram, alex68, scificomics, acceptance, beth623, timetunnel, viot.henri, FranzK72, Antoavrg, RuthMariah, v_RuneBerg,santhony ,dukeallen ,sturlington
- Förklaringar
- paradoxosalpha: One of Dick's most head-on approaches to his metaphysical conundrums. Written with an eye to the screen, and the pacing and characterizations reflect that.
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774 medlemmar
30 recensioner
½ 3.7
Global rankning 276
Rankning 7.43
Tillagt 2018-12-13, 10:10 AM
- 4 Members
- Euryale, paradoxosalpha, gypsysmom, kara.shamy
- Förklaringar
- paradoxosalpha: a 666-page magical operation thinly disguised as a science-fiction police procedural
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av Gene Wolfe
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30 recensioner
4
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Tillagt 2012-01-28, 01:16 PM
- 5 Members
- andyl, paradoxosalpha, falkman, Matteocalosi, Jarandel,spaceowl
- Förklaringar
- paradoxosalpha: Arguably not a novel, but I'm including it anyway, as I think it benefits from being read as one.
7
3,485 medlemmar
106 recensioner
½ 3.6
Global rankning 292
Rankning 6.49
Tillagt 2013-10-07, 06:15 PM
- 6 Members
- hailelib, psybre, paradoxosalpha, sturlington, gypsysmom, Tanya-dogearedcopy,Noisy ,marycloseburn ,ManWithAnAgenda
- Förklaringar
- paradoxosalpha: Pace marycloseburn, there are no supernatural elements in this highly science-fictional alternate history. The metaphysical conceit that frames the story does not make it "fantasy."marycloseburn : Enjoyable, but alternate history with fantasy elements rather than science fiction.
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3,726 medlemmar
74 recensioner
3.8
Global rankning 176
Rankning 15.68
Tillagt 2013-10-25, 03:04 PM
- 8 Members
- andyl, mkunruh, paradoxosalpha, okeres, Dilara86, linlef, dianeham, DCJeffrey
- Förklaringar
- paradoxosalpha: The only reason I haven't re-read this book in recent years is that I've been reading other Delany instead.
9
av Ian McDonald
1,633 medlemmar
46 recensioner
3.9
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Tillagt 2012-01-27, 11:51 AM
- 18 Members
- andyl, anglemark, Rtrace, sdobie, paradoxosalpha, majkia, amobogio, Surtac, aulsmith, stellarexplorer, Pamela110, santhony, jasmaynard, svfreeman, Endobiker, Jarandel, Rick_Deckard, BomboChipolata,sandstone78
- Förklaringar
- paradoxosalpha: highlights an assortment of post-human types in a three-week story set in the mid-21st century
10
869 medlemmar
14 recensioner
½ 3.5
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Tillagt 2012-12-24, 06:38 AM
- 3 Members
- Rtrace, paradoxosalpha, clong
- Förklaringar
- paradoxosalpha: interrogates received ideas about gender and sex with an awareness of the tragic aspects of human interaction and an assertion of the redemptive power of love
11
833 medlemmar
31 recensioner
½ 3.6
Global rankning 414
Rankning 3.3
Tillagt 2014-05-09, 08:52 AM
- 2 Members
- paradoxosalpha, gypsysmom
- Förklaringar
- paradoxosalpha: reflects on social and technological change outside the myth of progress
12
1,032 medlemmar
19 recensioner
½ 3.6
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Rankning 2.15
Tillagt 2022-12-09, 11:12 AM
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- paradoxosalpha
- Förklaringar
- paradoxosalpha: satirical theodicy skirting the edge of nihilism in an anti-fantasy of espionage and authoritarianism
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av James Morrow
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16 recensioner
½ 3.7
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Tillagt 2022-12-09, 11:13 AM
- 2 Members
- paradoxosalpha, SOShea
- Förklaringar
- paradoxosalpha: an enormously clever religious satire, much more incisive than Morrow's routinely lauded Towing Jehovah--but I'll probably never re-read it, because the story is just too goddamned sad
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5,018 medlemmar
95 recensioner
½ 3.7
Global rankning 504
Rankning 2.07
Tillagt 2022-12-09, 11:18 AM
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- paradoxosalpha
- Förklaringar
- paradoxosalpha: key themes include epidemiology, perception of time, control in urban societies, and messianic mythopoeia
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195 recensioner
4
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Rankning 38.96
Tillagt 2012-07-19, 10:09 AM
- 21 Members
- Aquila, mark, Osbaldistone, Rtrace, ayaeckel, Euryale, sdobie, jain, paradoxosalpha, Ragnell, okeres, scottd, sturlington, freetrader, sesanderson, LiveAndrew, Doey, dianeham, David_Krajci, ManWithAnAgenda, DCJeffrey
16
188 medlemmar
4 recensioner
½ 4.3
Global rankning 517
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Tillagt 2022-12-14, 02:17 PM
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- paradoxosalpha
- Förklaringar
- paradoxosalpha: Lafferty's book is clearly not addressed to the facile enjoyment of "the vulgar." He could say with Nietzsche, "I obviously do everything to be 'hard to understand' myself!"
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937 medlemmar
14 recensioner
½ 3.5
Global rankning 518
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Tillagt 2022-12-09, 11:16 AM
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- paradoxosalpha
- Förklaringar
- paradoxosalpha: waking/sleep dialectic intimating mysticism, people destined for companionship, foreboding of illusion in consensual phenomena, and reflections on the urge to engender praeterhumanity in our children
18
8,453 medlemmar
214 recensioner
3.8
Global rankning 46
Rankning 81.21
Tillagt 2012-01-12, 11:08 AM
- 38 Members
- timspalding, mark, mkunruh, pgmcc, Euryale, paradoxosalpha, trandism, LolaWalser, absurdeist, norabelle414, dhm, clong, CarltonC, merrystar, blackdove07, geitebukkeskjegg, Pamela110, Balkan, thejazzmonger, Myyst, sturlington, freetrader, sesanderson, thecoroner, lewbs, LiveAndrew, Dilara86, leigonj, alex68, Tomgraham, acceptance, bibliopolitan, Michael.Rimmer, NataliiaCh, FranzK72, ManWithAnAgenda, HelgeM, DavidRFWarner,santhony
- Förklaringar
- paradoxosalpha: In the sterile land of numbers, only the Devil can save your soul.
19
4,210 medlemmar
160 recensioner
½ 3.6
Global rankning 77
Rankning 48.43
Tillagt 2012-01-27, 04:27 PM
- 28 Members
- szarka, psybre, SRHarbin, john1099, Rtrace, sdobie, paradoxosalpha, bibliorex, cthulhuslibrarian, feaelin, TLCrawford, DugsBooks, Ross.Farnsworth, okeres, merrystar, Pamela110, RBeffa, Sylak, LiveAndrew, svfreeman, Michael.Rimmer, linlef, ChrisKohout, beth623, dsp501, Vulco1, Antoavrg, mjones329,andyl ,Balkan ,Bluewolf0411
- Förklaringar
- paradoxosalpha: the paragon of sword & planet
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164 medlemmar
4 recensioner
½ 3.4
Global rankning 534
Rankning 1.89
Tillagt 2022-12-14, 01:54 PM
- Member
- paradoxosalpha
- Förklaringar
- paradoxosalpha: maddeningly metatextual initiatory fantasy, Masonic-Rosicrucian psychopharmaceutical philosophy to make steampunks cry, a hollow earth odyssey with laboratory experiments you can try at home, a vision of the End from which all arises
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8,713 medlemmar
149 recensioner
3.8
Global rankning 286
Rankning 7.03
Tillagt 2016-03-24, 10:26 PM
- 8 Members
- ayaeckel, goldenmoon, br77rino, freetrader, MissJessie, Vulco1, RecklessReader, Antoavrg,andyl ,paradoxosalpha ,sturlington ,ManWithAnAgenda
- Förklaringar
- paradoxosalpha: Inferior to the shorter first edition. The posthumous reversion of the author's own edits is a crime against the work, leaving it bloated without added value.sturlington : Already on the list