Stuart Little - White
Stranger in a Strange Land - Heinlein
That Hideous Strength - Lewis
A Prayer for Owen Meany - Irving
Ender's Game - Card
The Sparrow - Russell
Making Color Sing - Dobie
Holy The Firm - Dillard
Red Mars - Robinson
Homeland - Doctorow
Wool - Howey
Lagoon - Okorafor
Light from Uncommon Stars - Aoki
I'm just finishing a 2nd reading of The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms (by N. K. Jemison) and it's quite amazing. Greek pantheon meets modern fantasy fiction.
The end notes include:
" … the most difficult moment came when the first draft somehow deleted itself from all servers, online backups and everywhere else. Not a trace remained, even using specialised recovery software. Months of work gone in an instant. I was devastated and thoroughly demoralised, and it took an enormous effort to pick myself up and start rewriting from scratch."
Not the greatest shots in the world, but we had moose in the yard behind our house and next to our fence. So cold out! I don't think it ever got above zero today. 🥶 #Alaska#AlaskaWildlife#Moosetodon#BRRRRRR
Into chapter 3 of "Slow River" by Nicola Griffith @Nicolaz and quite enjoying its slightly impressionistic style. As to genre, I guess I'd call it cyberpunk?
She's a new-to-me author, a good discovery. Have a look.
The Metamorphosis "determined a new direction for my life from its first line, which today is one of the great devices in world literature: As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic insect.” … it was not necessary to demonstrate facts: it was enough for the author to have written something for it to be true, with no proof other than the power of his talent and the authority of his voice."
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"Being a museum guard at the Guggenheim made me rethink my relationship with art history and museums. I’d always thought of them as these unimpeachable custodians of the best culture had to offer, and working in galleries and museums shook my faith in that idea."
Seeing is Unseeing: Bianca Bosker’s Immersive Year in the Art World in her book:
‘Get The Picture” – PRINT Magazine
"We've designed a world that's extremely prone to these 'avalanches' … a system that operates with optimisation & efficiency as its main priorities, … we have no slack in the system. … We're creating a world where the [resulting] 'avalanches' are more consequential & more likely to upend our social lives."
"The stability in our daily lives is happening as the world is changing faster & more profoundly than ever before …"
What other titles do you think SHOULD HAVE been on Bowie’s book list?
We’re making a list of books we think could have made the list or books we wished had been on the list.
We'll be randomly selecting from this list for the second season of the #BowieBookClub Podcast.
A Firehose of Falsehood breaks down the mechanisms of the attack on democracy into its component parts with fierce clarity and narrative power. A Firehood of Falsehood is so lucidly written and analytically acute, that it will be treasured by readers from young adults to scholars in the field.
―Jason Stanley, Professor of Philosophy, Yale