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Five Wonderful Books About A Horrible Future

October 2, 2009

Who doesn’t like to gaze into the future and dream about how wonderful things will soon be? Not these authors.  They are/were more interested in trying to figure out just how bad things could get.  And they each created at least one very specific vision of what that might mean. 1. Cat’s Cradle by Kurt [...]

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Book Review: 1984

August 10, 2009

Most books that want to be scary aren’t the least bit frightening.  The books I reviewed in the zombie renaissance post are dark and bloody, but when you read about zombies, do you really think: “Oh man, this would be so scary if it was happening!” If you do, there’s nothing wrong with that.  I [...]

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