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I went by the used bookstore today. I found these three:

1. The Iron Dream by Norman Spinrad. I heard that this book was banned in Germany because it was written from the point of view of Adolph Hitler, if Hitler had been a sci-fi writer instead of a dictator.
2. As She Climbed Across the Table by Jonathan Lethem. I liked Gun, With Occasional Music, but not quite as much as The Wall of the Sky, The Wall of the Eye. I like his stuff better than Michael Chabon's. I don't know why I compare the two. Perhaps because I've read 2 by each author and I've got another left to read by each.
3. Born to Rock by Gordon Korman. Another by my favorite YA writer. I couldn't resist the description on the back cover. A young republican falls from grace, finds out his dad is a punk rocker and becomes a roadie for his dad's band. On the front cover is a baby with a mohawk.

Vast Active Living Intelligence System

VALIS by Philip K. Dick

20 Minutes into the Future.

From Max Headroom

gun, with occasional music

gun, with occasional music

by Jonathan Lethem

books for beginners

Thanks for this pic, boing boing!

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mein kampf

Strange Attractors

Strange Attractors by William Sleator

aspiring author

I started a new blog this week. It's called "scenes from nowhere", and it's all short stories, written by me. I have another writing blog that I've been working on for a while, called "Green Twilight". That one is a science fiction novel that I originally started for NaNoWriMo, but failed to complete it before the one month deadline. However, I continued to write on it, off and on, ever since. I realize that I am not the greatest writer in the world. I'm certainly good at procrastination, otherwise I'd have finished Green Twilight long ago and started on another novel. Also it's difficult to continue writing on the same work, constantly for weeks or months at a time. I started the new blog, specifically as a place to put the best little short stories I could muster in one place. Instead of having them lying around in old notebooks all over my house. I publish them now in the hopes that they will be read and enjoyed and perhaps, one day be published in true book form.

Bad Monkeys

Bad Monkeys by Matt Ruff
This is not the same cover as the one I have.
I did a google image search for this book and liked this one better.
I have the yellow cover with what looks like 4 Darth Vader helmets,
from a distance.