Wednesday, March 27, 2019

Uncanny Avengers by Rick Remender

Also, I read Gail Simone's reboot of Red Sonja. Didn't much care for it.

Friday, March 15, 2019

Diamond Age by Neal Stephenson

Stephenson is such an insufferable fucking chud. All his heroes, without fail, are Rick and Morty-type, self-aggrandizing testaments to the importance of a liberal education.

It's a fucking wonder that Stephenson didn't become a tech CEO life coach, or TED Talk bloviator, or Wired hagiographer of this century's guilded morons.

Actually, that last one is exactly what he became.

Sunday, March 10, 2019

To Your Scattered Bodies Go by Philip José Farmer

Surely the horniest and most 70s of scifi novels.

All pulp novels consist of fifty percent rape or intimation of rape. Then thirty percent manly violence. Then speculative plot.