Reading mostly SF/Fantasy. lutruwita/TAS, Australia.
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Darkness wars with darkness as the hard-bitten men of the Black Company take their pay and do what they must. …
Voltaire: Candide: Candide: Bilingual Edition (English - French) by Voltaire (2015-01-06) (1777, CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform)
Candide, ou l'Optimisme ( kon-DEED, French: [kɑ̃did] (listen)) is a French satire first published in 1759 by Voltaire, a philosopher …
Candide, ou l'Optimisme ( kon-DEED, French: [kɑ̃did] (listen)) is a French satire first published in …
and seemed in the end to be a promotion of the protestant work ethic. Or is the juxtaposition of that to the absurdist philosophy in the rest of the story meant to imply that both options are equally absurd?
Not sure. Voltaire still throwing shade at his contemporaries though.
Voltaire: Candide: Candide: Bilingual Edition (English - French) by Voltaire (2015-01-06) (1777, CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform)
Candide, ou l'Optimisme ( kon-DEED, French: [kɑ̃did] (listen)) is a French satire first published in 1759 by Voltaire, a philosopher …
Alison Croggon: The Bone Queen
and a nice bit of back story on Cadvan, competently written, but nothing incredibly special.
Mona Lisa Overdrive is a science fiction novel by American-Canadian writer William Gibson, published in …
Gibosn had definitely hit his stride as an author by this one, nicely rounds out the trilogy.
Count Zero is a science fiction novel by American-Canadian writer William Gibson, originally published in …
A bit better written than Neuromancer, shows a maturing author I guess, still a classic!
The first of William Gibson's 'Sprawl' trilogy, Neuromancer is the classic cyberpunk novel.
More …
Revisiting an old favourite, a classic for sure!
The first of William Gibson's 'Sprawl' trilogy, Neuromancer is the classic cyberpunk novel.
More information on the novel's official …
Not too bad, the three novels are worth reading, the short stories didn't grab me much though.
Not too bad, the three novels are worth reading, the short stories didn't grab me much though.
From the back cover:
Imagine a world in a system of twin stars, where Winter is 600 ice-locked years …
Le Micromégas is a 1752 novella by the French philosopher and satirist Voltaire. Along with his story "Plato's Dream", it …
