"All this he saw, for one moment breathless and intense, vivid on the morning sky; and still, as he looked, he lived; and still, as he lived, he wondered."
There's a time limit, apparently, that saves you from having a book with a tacky cover and a sticker that says "From this, the major motion picture." 76 years seems to be enough. So yeah, Hell Screen by Ryūnosuke Akutagawa is a collection of short...
TO THE EDITORS OF THE LADY’S BOOK:I have the honor of sending you, for your magazine, an article which I hope you will be able to comprehend rather more distinctly than I do myself. It is a translation, by my friend, Martin Van Buren Mavis,...
Well, this was odd. I started reading this book because it's a childhood favourite of many UK people I know, and the charm hits you right from the beginning: this is an adventure like Bedknobs and Broomsticks, like The Goonies and Candleshoe, with witches and...
One thing is certain: it's my first time reading this book. I thought I did, but I think I skipped right to Children of Dune and God Emperor, because I'm confident I would remember this. Heartbreaking and astonishingly beautiful, I know I'm a voice outside the...
July 16, 1833.--This is a memorable anniversary for me; on it I complete my three hundred and twenty-third year! The Wandering Jew?--certainly not. More than eighteen centuries have passed over his head. In comparison with him, I am a very young Immortal. Am I, then, immortal? This...
I'm doing some catching up on old reads, and here's another one. I don't know the author, this time, but I bought the book because of the publisher, which often associates it with the stunning "Winter Harvest" by Ioanna Papadopoulou, and the association is on...
Though I think I get what Lem was trying to do with this novel, I also understand the many people whose reaction has been "what the fuck did I just read?" The novel is about alienation, social estrangement, post-traumatic stress and culture shock, which are all...
Does it count as a re-read if you didn’t originally read it in English? And does it count if your memory was so overwritten by the movie adaptations and, by extension, by people commenting on them in comparison to the original material? I don’t think...
I’ve been a supporter of the author on Patreon for some time, now, and I bought the book as soon as she published it as additional support, but I never got around to actually opening it. One of the main reasons is that I thought...
Ted Chiang’s The Lifecycle of Software Objects is one of the most criminally underrated pieces in contemporary speculative fiction. While Chiang is best known for meticulously crafted stories like The Merchant and the Alchemist’s Gate and Story of Your Life, adapted into the mediocre movie...
