AP Gaines

If you're looking at the reviews it's likely that you're interested in sci-fi and have probably heard of this book already. I will add my voice to the cacophony of voices insisting that “you've got to read this book.” It's phenomenal.

The dialogue is superb. The thoughts of the protagonists felt so familiar I squirmed. The tone/theme/action congruence was so fluid I forgot that I was actually reading and not just seeing what was happening.

Techno-black-chaos magic realism in a syringe.

right in my wheelhouse. fantastic fiction of our shadow world. the stories show visions of where we might have gone, where we could be going, and, truthfully, where we ought to be.

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Heartfelt biography by Che's brother, a somewhat open look into the family dynamics and their role in Argentina's politics political tumult throughout the later half of the 20th century.

A courageous soldier's journey to the depths of what it means to be a soldier; both in becoming a part of the war machine and returning to life in “normal” society. A personal exploration of how the ruling class ideology transforms everyone, soldiers and civilians, during wartime-how each member of society deals with the brutality and psychic damage caused by the obligation to kill each other at the behest of those “in charge.”