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The Girl With All the Gifts (2017)

7.5 (30 Ratings) Rate It

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In the future, a strange fungus has changed nearly everyone into a thoughtless, flesh-eating...

Joyce Carol Oates recommended Version Control in Books (curated)

Version Control

Dexter Palmer | 2016 | Fiction & Poetry, Science Fiction/Fantasy

7.7

(3 Ratings)

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"Version Control is perhaps the strangest fictional work of appropriated voices and subjects. It’s set in a surreal near future — or several near futures — as well as in several pasts. Though issues of race play virtually no role in the stories, one character, an African-American physicist, recalls dropping out of a writing course because the professor thought he should be mining his heritage instead of inventing science fiction."

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Ottessa Moshfegh recommended You are Having a Good Time in Books (curated)

You are Having a Good Time

Amie Barrodale | 2016 | Fiction & Poetry

(0 Ratings)

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"This is my favorite collection of short stories, and every time I pick it up, it reminds me that there is a genius on Earth with heart and humor so evolved I have to wonder if she is from the future. This book breaks my brain open so it can grow. I'll be sitting there on my island, praying that someone will drop Barrodale's next book on my head from heaven."

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Yoko Ono recommended The Race for What's Left: The Global Scramble for the World's Last Reources in Books (curated)

"As Earth’s ever-decreasing non-renewable resources diminish, we must alter our consumption patterns or we will all end up with nothing. This book shows us where we are currently standing and the unfortunate reality we don’t want to face. Reading this book will make you not only face the horrors of reality but will make you feel that you want to work to make a good future."

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Robert Longo recommended Neuromancer in Books (curated)

Neuromancer

William Gibson | 2016 | Fiction & Poetry

7.3

(7 Ratings)

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"Cyberpunk’s “On the Road,” a “consensual hallucination” of a revolutionary vision of the future. This was my introduction to William Gibson’s work, which then led me to “Johnny Mnemonic.” (As a fan of his, I contacted Gibson because I wanted to make the film “Johnny Mnemonic.”[Ed. note: Longo directed the film.]) Books are like dreams. I was eager to see what a universe like this could look like."

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Leanne Crabtree (480 KP) rated The Banshee's Embrace (The Banshee's Embrace Trilogy, #1) in Books

Jan 12, 2021

3.5 stars.

For quite a short story it kept me entertained. I liked the romance and the continuous action throughout.

This was only my second foray into banshee's, though in Rachel Vincent's Soul Screamers series they aren't described as such, and I enjoyed it. The storyline was intriguing and kept me guessing who was behind the murder.

I look forward to continuing the series at some point in the future.

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Klou (162 KP) rated Snapchat in Apps

Oct 9, 2019

Snapchat

Communication, Photo & Video, Social Networking

7.4

(180 Ratings)

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Snap-notthis k

This is my honest opinion.

It is not great. I see all the teenagers using it, my son included, and I can see the amazement. Funny filters, disappearing messages, stories etc.

But I don't feel safe using it. I feel vulnerable to bullys. This isn't an app I will let my son use in the future. It hides a multitude of sins, and that is not OK