The Female Man (Bluestreak)34 reviews Joanna Russ Beacon Press, 2000 What do the women in Whileaway do with their hair? ý + The Female Man + A complex, involving sci-fi novel about alternate realities ... They chop it off with clamshells. There was a time when speculative-fiction (or science-fiction, pick your term) was filled with writers who experimented and challenged the status quo. These writers, people like Harlan Ellison, Samuel Delaney, and Joanna Russ, are challenging, talented, and ...             Stranger in a Strange Land540 reviews Robert A. Heinlein Ace, 1987 Excelent Read... + Absolutely excellent This book is absolutely amazing. Draws you in from the very first page, and after reading it, it leaves you with no questions, but a very insightful look into human nature. Once you pick it up you will find it hard to put it down to do things like sleep or go to work.             Aye, and Gomorrah: And Other Stories4 reviews Samuel R. Delany Vintage, 2003 Scifi Stories With the Human Characters in the Center! + Delany, but approachable... + Excellent fusion of art and emotion + A near-perfect fusion of artistry and imagination             The PowerBook24 reviews Jeanette Winterson Vintage, 2001 After repeated readings... Winterson's "The PowerBook" gets better and better. Potentially one of her more esoteric and theoretical works, "PowerBook" details the virtual experiences of Ali/x and her reader (you). I'll confess that I found it a bit overwhelming at first read, but nonetheless haunting enough to give it a ...             Ammonite17 reviews Nicola Griffith Del Rey, 2002 Something for everyone who likes science fiction + Anthropological science fiction + Opens up a new genre + An Interesting Mixture of Themes             Slow River42 reviews Nicola Griffith Ballantine Books, 1996 Gtreat read + A wonderful near-future story + The rich and the poor Oh boy, am I happy to have read this book. I've read good things about Nicola Griffith, and I'm not sure why I bought this one first. It's science fiction as opposed to a mystery series she has that would, just by genre, be more up my alley. But I'm so glad I didn't dismiss this. It's tells the ...             Bending the Landscape: Fantasy (Bending the Landscape)9 reviews Nicola Griffith Overlook TP, 2004 Coming Into Our Own + worth seeking out + Mind-bending fantasy + Coming Into Our Own             The Dispossessed94 reviews Ursula K. Le Guin Eos, 1994 Outstanding Utopian Work of Freedom and Liberty + But which is the better world? + Overall, solid + Anarchy In Outerspace             I Will Fear No Evil77 reviews Robert A. Heinlein Ace, 1987 Fear no evil + What a trip + Wonderful Author "Fear No Evil" is a great book and a very enjoyeble read, I have long been a Heinlein fan. Wonderful!             Nova Express9 reviews William S. Burroughs Grove Press, 1994 thirty-six years old and still ahead of its time + Remind you of something? + the cut-up trilogy + "Give me that kimono!"-The Captain + Notes From The Grey Room             The Door into Fire12 reviews Diane Duane St Martins Pr, 1984 In Quest of a Focus + theosophical + Beauty, love, adventure, pain - all here + The Best Fantasy Novel I've Ever Read             Trouble on Triton: An Ambiguous Heterotopia12 reviews Samuel R. Delany Wesleyan, 1996 A different view. + Great novel! + today the world trade center fell. Delaney showed how A book is a machine to generate interpretations, as Eco wrote. Thus, not one interpretation can be the correct one, and all we can do is to add to what other people have experienced at some point while reading a book. Due to my own life experience, I perceive, perhaps, several more levels to this ...             The Handmaid's Tale: A Novel560 reviews Margaret Atwood Anchor, 1998 I wasn't expecting this!!!! + A 21st century 1984 by George Orwell + Great Review This book was written very well. I had the creeps while I was reading it. It reminded me of the movie "Children of Men" and the book "The Giver". The entire time I was reading this book, I kept thinking of a certain female vice presidential candidate. I am afraid that she would love the form of ...             The Left Hand of Darkness184 reviews Ursula K. LeGuin Ace, 1987 Revisit this Sci-Fi classic if you haven't read it since college + Le Guin's Masterpiece + Can't put it down The intriguing notion that our gender dictates not only our personal life, but the society we create and our political systems was quite a radical thought for me in the 1970s when I first read this book in college. I was immersed in an on-going sexual revolution and a feminist awakening. Ursula ...             Luck in the Shadows (Nightrunner, Vol. 1)100 reviews Lynn Flewelling Spectra, 1996 Luck in the shadows + Best for the characters + Is is possible to fall in love with a trilogy of books? Yes, I think. Another great book from this author, it is really difficult to put it down and you find yourself not wanting it to end, great escapism and very well written. You really need to have the whole trilogy to hand though because once you finish this one you will, I gurantee start on No. 2.             Naked Lunch1 review William S. Burroughs Grove Press, 1966 book broke great book, but unfortunately the binding broke as it is like 40 years old. literally.             The Bone Doll's Twin (Tamir Trilogy, Book 1)100 reviews Lynn Flewelling Spectra, 2001 The Bone Doll's Twin + Great! + Absolutely Brilliant! + Wonderful start to the trilogy! + Absolutely loved it!             Kirith Kirin35 reviews Jim Grimsley Meisha Merlin Publishing, Inc., 2000 slow + a very good read If only action packed sword and sorcery fantasy novels are to your taste you should carefully avoid the trouble to look for this out of print book which I happened to purchase for a rather outrageous price. It is extremely slow paced, with longish descriptions of magic theory and magical duels ...             Woman on the Edge of Time91 reviews Marge Piercy Fawcett, 1985 If you were inspired by this novel, check on books on social ecology! + great book + Simply amazing + Neat !             The Ticket That Exploded (Burroughs, William S.)10 reviews William S. Burroughs Grove Press, 1994 A Must Reread + "cut-up" masterpiece + one weird bizarre galactic ADVENTURE + Possibly "better" and more insightful than "Naked Lunch"