The Authenticity Hoax: How We Get Lost Finding Ourselves (2010) by Andrew Potter 296 pages McClelland & Stewart ===== It’s probably a bad sign when you’re halfway through reading a book, especially a non-fiction book, and you realize that you don’t have any idea of what the book is really about, in which direction the [...]
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The Authenticity Hoax
Posted in Book Reviews, tagged andrew potter, canada, economics, philosophy, politics, sociology on April 26, 2010 | 2 Comments »
Darwinia
Posted in Book Reviews, tagged canada, robert charles wilson, science fiction on January 19, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Darwinia (1998) by Robert Charles Wilson 320 pages Orb Books ===== It’s the start of the twentieth century, the age of large ocean-crossing ships and the telegraph, when an event occurs that shakes everyone’s understanding of reality, and radically transforms the course of history from the path it followed in our world. Overnight a light [...]
The Prisoner: Shattered Visage
Posted in Book Reviews, tagged canada, comics, dean motter, film, science fiction on January 19, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
The Prisoner: Shattered Visage (1990) written by Dean Motter and Mark Askwith, illustrated by Dean Motter DC Comics 208 pages ===== After watching the dire AMC-TV remake (or re-imagining, or brutalizing, or whatever) of the classic late-60s British television series The Prisoner, I learned about this comic, which was originally published in four volumes, and [...]
