Books |
By Ed Park |
August 5, 2007
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Spook Country A Novel William Gibson
G.P. Putnam’s Sons: 374 pp., $25.95
CONSIDER this frank greeting in William Gibson’s “Spook Country”:
“I’ve just checked the number of your Google hits, and read your
Wikipedia entry.”
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As temperatures climb this summer, an armchair visit to hell can help
put even the most inhospitable forecasts in perspective.
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Over the years, I’ve stockpiled books on Atlantis – Ignatius
Donnelly’s “Atlantis” (which kicked off modern interest in 1882),
Cutcliffe Hyne’s novel “The Lost Continent” and Lewis Spence’s “The
Problem of Atlantis,” to name just a few.
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Sitting on the bookstore shelf, Adam Roberts’ new novel, “Gradisil”
(Pyr: 552 pp., $15 paperback), makes few appeals to the general reader.
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Books |
By Ed Park |
April 22, 2007
Fifty years ago this month, the seminal British science-fiction
magazine New Worlds published a story emphatically if enigmatically
titled “O Ishrail!”
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Books |
By Ed Park |
February 4, 2007
IN “Search for Philip
K. Dick” (1995), Anne
R. Dick (the third of the
visionary science-fiction writer’s five wives) recalls a potentially
life-changing response to the manuscript of “Confessions of a Crap
Artist,” a mainstream novel he had finished in 1959.
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