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Showing posts with label satire. Show all posts
Showing posts with label satire. Show all posts
Tuesday, August 12, 2025

PROFESSOR SCHIFF'S GUILT, humor is hard, but better when hard-edged

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PROFESSOR SCHIFF'S GUILT AGUR SCHIFF (tr. Jessica Cohen) New Vessel Press ( non-affiliate Bookshop.org link) $17.95 all editions...
Wednesday, June 19, 2024

GAY SCIENCE: The Totally Scientific Examination of LGBTQ+ Culture, Myths, and Stereotypes, fun froth for the train to Babylon

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GAY SCIENCE: The Totally Scientific Examination of LGBTQ+ Culture, Myths, and Stereotypes ROB ANDERSON DK Books $25.00 hardcover, avail...
Saturday, December 30, 2023

THE ARREST, cozy catastrophe from a monadnock of literary SF

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THE ARREST JONATHAN LETHEM Ecco $16.99 trade paper, available now Rating: 3* of five The Publisher Says : The Arrest isn't post...
Thursday, September 21, 2023

KILL FOR LOVE, is Tiffany the new Patrick Bateman?

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KILL FOR LOVE LAURA PICKLESIMER The Unnamed Press $28.00 hardcover, available now Rating: 4* of five The Publisher Says : The boys ...
Sunday, January 1, 2017

ANIMAL FARM, the 20th century's best, most biting political satire

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ANIMAL FARM GEORGE ORWELL Everyman's Library $20 hardcover, available now Rating: 5* of five The Publisher Says : Signet Classi...
Thursday, March 24, 2016

THE BARON IN THE TREES by Italo Calvino, one of the best books I've ever read

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THE BARON IN THE TREES ITALO CALVINO translated by Archibald Colquhoun Mariner Books $13.95 trade paper, available now Rating: 4* of...
Monday, September 1, 2014

FANDEMONIUM, a satire with serious bite

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FANDEMONIUM RICK SCHINDLER Wattle Publishing $9.99 Kindle edition, available now Rating: 3.5* of five The Publisher Says : Fandemoni...
Saturday, August 30, 2014

WHY ARE YOU SO SAD?, or Updike's Rabbit in the 21st century

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WHY ARE YOU SO SAD? JASON PORTER Plume Books $4.99 ebook platforms, available now Rating: 3.5* of five The Publisher Says : Have we a...
Sunday, August 17, 2014

THE MADONNA AND THE STARSHIP, laugh-it-up lark

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THE MADONNA AND THE STARSHIP JAMES MORROW Tachyon Publications $3.99 ebook editions, available now Rating: 4.4* of five The Publish...
Saturday, July 26, 2014

THE MIDAS PLAGUE, Frederik Pohl's 60-year-old novelette of consumerism

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THE MIDAS PLAGUE FREDERIK POHL Out of print Various prices and sellers, starting at about $6 Rating: 3* of five The Publisher Says ...
Saturday, November 2, 2013

THE TELEPORTATION ACCIDENT review

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THE TELEPORTATION ACCIDENT NED BEAUMAN Bloomsbury USA $25.00 hardcover, available now Rating: 4.8* of five The Publisher Says : HIS...
Wednesday, September 25, 2013

ELLA MINNOW PEA, Mark Dunn's progressively lipogrammatic send-up of rigidity

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ELLA MINNOW PEA MARK DUNN Anchor Books $15.95 trade paper, available now Rating: 4.9* of five The Publisher Says : There are two book...