Horror

https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7579089709 Perception warped, weaponized, what? There Is No Antimemetics Division is better read while half-broken. Grab a few beers, smoke a joint, or try while falling asleep and it starts cheating like Ubik: the boundary between the book’s ideas and your own short-term memory gets thin enough that the whole thing becomes cognitive sabotage. The monster is all around us, or it is us, or that distinction was never stable to begin with. Maybe these days I’m just in an AI-pill-fever-dream… but in waking the fabric of humanity is being rewritten by a collective runaway experiment, and maybe not for the better. qntm provides prose for that feeling. What is it we sense but cannot see, contribute but cannot escape? This is not a riddle to be solved, it is a feeling to be experienced. What were we talking about again? I didn’t read this book, you didn’t read this review, reality is a lie.

Somewhere between a fairy tale and a clothing brand.

My favorite scalzi book to date. Really liked the premise and the characters. The ending seemed a bit of a disappointment, but it was a fun ride to get there. Will continue this series.

2026: OH MY GOD IT’S AN ALLEGORY FOR HUMANITY’S FIRST CONTACT WITH AI Original read: 2018 I…. didn’t get it. Maybe I’ll like the movie better?

Growing up with a father who constantly believed that civilization was going to end, post apocalyptic books hold a special draw to me. So after watching the genius of No Country for Old Men, I went to download this book for a trip between Seattle and Spokane. This book seems to me the literary equivalent of Brian Eno, using simple and repetitive motifs to propel the flow of the medium in a slow but inevitable manner. Many parts of a standard genre are entirely missing, While the author gives tantalizing hints as to what may have happened, they are not enough to reconstruct the apocalypse. The characters remain unnamed during the novel and encounters with the rest of the bitter edge of humanity are sparse. Adjectives for cold and dark abound and made me feel cold even when I should have been perfectly comfortable. However, the books greatest strengths were also its greatest weaknesses. Many of the events seemed cyclical, and at times the plot seemed as aimless as the characters themselves: wandering with little hope. Still the ability of the story to survive trough incredible constraints is commendable and no doubt, The Road breaks the mold for storytelling.