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J. G. Eccarius:
The Last Days of Christ the Vampire
[fantasy, horror,
satire]
III Publishing paperback, first edition/first printing, 1988 – enslaving
minds and bodies through religious hierarchies and by direct telepathic
control, Jesus Christ, the vampire, promises people eternal life for the
price of their minds. An irreverent, heretical and satirical horror
story that has become an underground
cult classic.
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Philip José Farmer: The Magic
Labyrinth
[SF] Berkley paperback, 2nd printing, 1981
– In the fourth and concluding volume of the Riverworld series,
literally every human being who has ever lived, including Sir Richard
Burton, Mark Twain, and Herman Goering, is resurrected along the banks
of an enormous river on a mysterious planet. The origins of Riverworld
and its mysterious builders seem to be at last within reach.
[NF]
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Rebecca Goldstein: The Mind-Body
Problem [philosophy, Jewish
culture] Penguin trade paperback, 1993 [ISBN 0141722459] – A delightful and very
funny novel of a philosophy graduate student at Princeton who undergoes
a crisis of self-confidence and tries to resolve it by finding meaning
second-hand in another’s life. The whole book is a long, clever, and
non-standard treatment of the classic philosophical mind-body problem.
[VG] $2.99 |
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Hermann
Hesse: Steppenwolf
[fantasy, psychology, occult]
Bantam paperback, 1970 – “Hesse was one of the most daring
innovators in modern fiction. Writing in the existential tradition of
Nietzsche and Dostoevsky, he was one of the first novelists to make use
of the discoveries of Sigmund Freud. To these he added his own
far-reaching speculations of the supernatural. Steppenwolf is his
best-known work. It is a profoundly memorable and affecting novel.”
[NF]
$5.99
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Aldous Huxley: Brave New World
[SF, dystopia] Bantam Classic paperback
#SC206, reprint of 1967 edition – “...a soulless, streamlined Eden...
Huxley’s prophetic vision of natural man in an unnatural world where
freedom lies dead and all our concepts of morality are forgotten — an
open-eyed, shocking look at a frighteningly possible tomorrow...
considered by many to be Huxley’s masterpiece.”
[VG] $4.99 |
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Daniel Keyes: Flowers for
Algernon
[SF, psychology] Bantam paperback, 1968 – a
mentally challenged man undergoes an experimental treatment intended to
increase his intelligence. The experiment is successful, but the effects
are temporary. The novel was expanded from a short story that was first
published in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction in 1959;
and it was the basis of the movie Charly
(1968). [VG]
$4.99 |
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George Orwell: Animal Farm
[SF, dystopia] When the animals take over the farm, they think it
is the start of a better life. Their dream is of a world where all
animals are equal and all property is shared. But soon the pigs take
control and one of them, Napoleon, becomes the leader of all the
animals. One by one the principles of the revolution are abandoned,
until the animals have even less freedom than before. [VG] $4.99 |
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George Orwell:
Nineteen Eighty-four
[SF, dystopia] Signet paperback, reprint of the
1961 edition, with an afterword by Erich Fromm – “In the world of
1984 the Party keeps itself in power by complete control over man’s
thoughts and actions... the Party can smash the last impulse of love, the last flicker of individuality... It is not only
a political novel, but also a diagnosis of the deepest alienation in the
mind of Organization Man.” (publisher’s description)
[VG] $4.99 |
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Robert M. Pirsig: Lila
[philosophy] Bantam paperback
#29961, first printing, December 1992 – a sailboat carries
the philosopher Phaedrus down the Hudson River as winter closes in.
Along the way he picks up a most unlikely traveling companion: a woman
named Lila who in her desperate sexuality, hostility, and oncoming
madness threatens to disrupt his life. This book examines the essential
issues of the 1990s as his previous work did the 1970s.
[VG]
$4.99
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Robert M. Pirsig: Zen and the Art
of Motorcycle Maintenance
[philosophy] Bantam paperback #B8880,
4th printing, 1975 – Pirsig’s first novel of philosophy, a bestseller,
is the extraordinary story of a father and son on the road in a quest
for truth and self-discovery. Reviews: “Profoundly important...” (New
York Times); “...sparkles like an electric dream” (Village Voice);
“Beautifully, lucidly written” (Chicago Sun-Times)
[VG]
$4.99
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Salman Rushdie: Haroun and the Sea of Stories
[ISBN 0140157379]
[fantasy, fables] Penguin/Granta trade paperback, 1991 – in a
contemporary folk tale filled with riotous verbal pranks, Haroun, who
unintentionally stopped time when he froze his father’s esteemed
storytelling ability, seeks to undo his error on a quest through a
magical realm. Stephen King wrote that it is “...a book for anyone who
loves a good story” and “...a work of literary genius.”
[VG] $4.99 |
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B. F. Skinner: Walden Two
[utopia, psychology] Macmillan paperback, first printing, 1962 –
first published in 1948, this controversial novel portrays an intentional community founded on
the principles of “cultural engineering” in which human problems are
solved by a scientific technology of human conduct, and in which many
contemporary social values are obsolete.
[VG] $4.99 |
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Mark Twain: A Connecticut
Yankee in King Arthur’s Court
[fantasy, Arthurian lore] Watermill Classic paperback, 1980 – The last
thing Hank Morgan can remember is being hit over the head during a brawl
in his home town in Connecticut. When he finally comes to, he finds
himself in a strange country, seated beside a man in a suit of armor. He
is in 528 AD, in Camelot, and the stranger
is a knight in King Arthur’s court. [VG]
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