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World Without Pain: The Story of a Search
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Silent Interviews
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Stories about the mysterious Telepathic Guild Invisible People
The Relocation Blues
Adriana’s Family
The Woman Who Fell Backwards and Other Stories
Apocalypse Bluff and Other Stories
The Senescent Nomad Hits the Road
Invasive Procedures: Stories
Heroes and Other Illusions: Stories
Bedlam Battle: An Omnibus of the One Thousand Series
After the Fireflood
Caliban’s Children
The Fantasy Book Murders
Opting Out and Other Departures
Sunflower: A Novel
America Redux: Impressions of the United States After Thirty-Five Years Abroad
Fear or Be Feared: Fantasies
Writing as a Metaphysical Experience
Reviews and Reflections on Books, Literature, and Writing
The One Thousand: A Novella
The One Thousand: Book Two: Team of Seven
The One Thousand: Book Three: Black Magic Bus
The One Thousand: Book Four: Deconstructing the Nightmare
After the Rosy-Fingered Dawn: A Memoir of Greece
The Misadventures of Mama Kitchen: A Novel
Dark Mirrors: Dystopian Tales
Love Children: A Novel
Painsharing and Other Stories
The Dragon Ticket and Other Stories
Tag Archives: Silicon Valley
Book Review: Uncanny Valley: A Memoir by Anna Wiener
When she was in her mid-twenties, Anna Wiener left her career in New York publishing to move to San Francisco and work in the tech industry. She worked first at one startup and then another, getting a firsthand glimpse at … Continue reading
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Tagged memoir, San Francisco Bay Area, Silicon Valley, tech industry
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Book Review: Whole Earth: The Many Lives of Stewart Brand by John Markoff
I’m always on the lookout for good books on the counterculture of the 1960s and early 1970s. The title of this biography emphasizes Brand’s main contribution to that era, The Whole Earth Catalog. Though it delves into the making of … Continue reading
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Tagged acid tests, counterculture, hippies, Ken Kesey, Merry Pranksters, Silicon Valley, sixties, Steve Jobs, Whole Earth Catalog
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Book Review: Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson
In short, this is one of the best biographies I have read in years. I didn’t expect it to be so because I was somewhat disappointed by Isaacson’s more recent biography of Leonardo da Vinci. My main objection with that … Continue reading
Book Review: The Unwinding: An Inner History of the New America by George Packer; Part Two: The Frog in the Pot
Coming to the end of a great book is an exhilarating experience tempered only by the fact that the ride is over. This book, though it is a work of nonfiction, concludes like a novel, with a buildup in a … Continue reading
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Tagged book review, Elysium, George Packer, memoir, Occupy Wall Street, Silicon Valley, The Unwinding
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