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Book Review: A Scanner Darkly by Philip K. Dick

By: Amira K. June 18, 2015June 18, 2015

Book Review, WritingA Scanner Darkly, addiction, book review, crime, dark fiction, drugs, fiction, literature, novels, Philip K Dick, science fiction8 Comments

It’s been a long time since I read a science fiction novel–hell, any novel–that disturbed me in quite the way Philip K. Dick’s A Scanner Darkly did. Forget science fiction. This is literature. This is one of those books that proves that genre fiction can be as real, hard-hitting, and thought-provoking as literary fiction, any day of…

Book Review: NEXUS by Ramez Naam

By: Amira K. February 21, 2013July 10, 2013

Book ReviewBuddhism, drugs, internet, Nexus, OS, philosophy, Ramez Naam, sci-fi, scienceLeave a Comment

The tagline for the book NEXUS, published by the Angry Robot imprint of Osprey, is “Mankind Gets An Upgrade”, but frankly, I don’t think that does the book justice. Lots of books are about “upgrading” humans, whether through genetic modifications, android additions, or drugs (as is Nexus). The tagline is technically correct: the basic premise of NEXUS…

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