snakybus
Well-Known Member
I've been reading some weird shit lately.
- "Vurt" by Jeff Noone - like a sci fi Trainspotting, featuring people who experience shared psychotropic hallucinations, some characters who are human/dog hybrids, and parallels with thelegend of Orpheus. Weird and good.
- Literature(TM) by Guillermo Stitch - satisfyingly weird, features a steamroller that prints actual fiction onto some kind of biosynthetic road, which drivers read, and the act of engagement with the fiction propels your vehicle. Sounds bananas. Is. But works.
- Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut - oldie but a goodie. Not so much weird as gonzo, but then Vonnegut always tends to be so it's grand. I'm not sure he achieves the profound heights in this one as others from the canon, but it was very readable.
- A Fire Upon the Deep by Vernor Vinge. Part trad space opera, part post-singularity thought experiment in which technological gods exist beyond the perimeter of the galaxy and think us mere mortals like, say, fish. There are dog-aliens that can only function as psionic packs. Very involved and an enjoyable doorstop of a book.
- Night Shift by Stephen King. Mr. King gives good short story.
- Lake of Urine by Guillermo Stitch - the weirdest of the lot, and that's saying something. Mervyn Peakish, satirical, surreal as fuck, hilarious, insane, and beautifully written. This nearly broke my brain.