find new books to read, put your reading list online

  & 14 users

• Current

Type: fiction

Status: I recommend

Author: Cory Doctorow

Tags: fantasy cyberpunk fiction london science_fiction

Description: Eastern Standard Tribe is a 2004 novel by Cory Doctorow, who also wrote Down and Out in theEastern Standard Tribe is a 2004 novel by Cory Doctorow, who also wrote Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom and A Place So Foreign and Eight more. Like Doctorow's first two novels, the entire text was released under a Creative Commons license on Doctorow's website, allowing the whole text of the book to be read for free and distributed without his or his publisher's permission....

2005-09-23

• Current

Type: unknown

Status: to read

Author: William Sleator

Tags: fantasy sf sciencefiction fiction scifi futuristic

2005-09-14

  & 28 users

• Current

Type: fiction

Status: I recommend

Author: Cory Doctorow

Tags: fantasy sf sciencefiction fiction scifi cc futuristic

2005-09-14

  & 228 users

• Current

Type: fiction

Status: I recommend

Authors: George Orwell Robert W. Taylor Tom G. Field blair

Tags: fiction classic politics culture

2005-09-14

  & 350 users

• Current

Type: fiction

Status: I recommend

Author: George Orwell

Tags: sf british fiction scifi classic politics culture fun

Description: In a grim city and a terrifying country, where Big Brother is always Watching You and the ThoughtIn a grim city and a terrifying country, where Big Brother is always Watching You and the Thought Police can practically read your mind, Winston is a man in grave danger for the simple reason that his memory still functions. He knows the Party's official image of the world is a fluid fiction. He knows the Party controls the people by feeding them lies and narrowing their imaginations through a process of bewilderment and brutalization that alienates each individual from his fellows and deprives him of every liberating human pursuit from reasoned inquiry to sexual passion. Drawn into a forbidden love affair, Winston finds the courage to join a secret revolutionary organization called The Brotherhood, dedicated to the destruction of the Party. Together with his beloved Julia, he hazards his life in a deadly match against the powers that be....

2005-09-14