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You Say You Want a Revolution? Well, You Know…’Windswept’ Ain’t it

March 23, 2016 by Lyda Morehouse 1 Comment

Windswept Adam Rakunas Philip K. Dick Award Nominee True confession, it was once a dream of mine to be a card-carrying member of the Industrial Workers of the World.  I know all the words to “Solidarity Forever” and used to sing it regularly to my toddler whenever we finished Click, Clack, Moo–a children’s picture book…

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WTF, PKD Award Nominee??

March 1, 2016 by Lyda Morehouse Leave a Comment

(R)evolution PJ Manney Philip K. Dick award nominee Uh, where do I even start with this one? Just to give you a sense of my experience with PJ Manney’s (R)evolution: about a quarter of the way into the book, I stopped, and wondered if I should continue reading it because I hated every single character in…

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After The Saucers Landed: Fluxus And UFOS And Jumpsuits

February 16, 2016 by Lyda Morehouse Leave a Comment

After The Saucers Landed Douglas Lain Philip K. Dick award nominee 2016 I’ve been struggling with ways to describe this book to my friends. Last time I tried, it went about this well: “Okay, so you know how in the 1970s there was this whole groovy concept of aliens as Space Brothers? Yeah, so… what…

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Apex: Never Start With The Last Book Of A Trilogy

February 9, 2016 by Lyda Morehouse Leave a Comment

APEX (Nexus #3) Ramez Naam Philip K. Dick Award nominee 2016 Apex should have been the sort of book I love. It’s cyberpunk-y, a political thriller, and a lot of the action takes place in settings outside of the usual, which is to say, in China and India. This is a lot of what I…

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