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…
WTF, PKD Award Nominee??
(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…
After The Saucers Landed: Fluxus And UFOS And Jumpsuits
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…
Apex: Never Start With The Last Book Of A Trilogy
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…