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World Without Pain: The Story of a Search
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: sixties
On Rereading The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test by Tom Wolfe
I first read The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test back in the early 1970s when I was dabbling in the psychedelic culture from the perspective of a university in the San Francisco Bay Area. Taking psychedelics and smoking pot was almost … Continue reading
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Tagged acid tests, acid trip, hallucinogens, Ken Kesey, LSD, Merry Pranksters, psychedelics, sixties
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Book Review: American Moonshot: John F. Kennedy and the Great Space Race by Douglas Brinkley
This is a fascinating book about America’s efforts to conquer space during the Cold War. However, it is not a comprehensive history of the space program. Instead, it focuses on John F. Kennedy’s fixation on space exploration and eventually on … Continue reading
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Tagged Apollo program, Cold War, John F. Kennedy, moon landing, sixties, space exploration, space flight
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Book Review: The Armageddon Rag by George R.R. Martin
Although set in the 1980s, this book is actually about the 1960s. I lived the sixties in the early seventies, but I recognized all the cultural buttons Martin pushes, the references obscure and famous, and the sense of loss of … Continue reading
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Tagged eighties, rock band, rock group, rock music, seventies, sixties
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Book Review: Vineland by Thomas Pynchon
I approach the novels of Thomas Pynchon with trepidation, knowing that I’m only going to comprehend and appreciate a portion of their mysteries and treasures. I think the most accessible for me was Inherent Vice. I was drawn to Vineland, … Continue reading
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Tagged Back to the Future, Cheech and Chong, eighties, Henry Miller, hippies, Inherent Vice, Quentin Tarantino, sixties, Thomas Pynchon, Vineland
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A Second Look: The Misadventures of Mama Kitchen
My second novel: Sarah Tabitha Jones, a twenty-year-old fascinated by the youth culture of the late 1960s, leaves her middle-class home and wanders to a wilderness commune and then to the Haight/Ashbury in search of truth. On the way she … Continue reading
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Tagged commune, Haight/Ashbury, hippies, hippy, sixties, Woodstock, youth culture
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Book Review: A Fiction of the Past: The Sixties in American History by Dominick Cavallo
I came into the sixties indirectly – that is, in the backwash of the early seventies. Gone were the Diggers, the SDS, Woodstock, the Summer of Love, the whole Flower Power scene, and other manifestations that made the era so … Continue reading
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Tagged counterculture, Diggers, drug culture, Grateful Dead, hippies, SDS, sixties, Thoreau
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Book Review: Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life by William Finnegan
In my search for new nonfiction books to read, I perused recent awards lists and came across this title. It surprised me that a book on surfing should have won a Pulitzer Prize, but as I read brief descriptions of … Continue reading
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Tagged seventies, sixties, surfing, travel, Writing
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The One Thousand Series
Bedlam Battle: An Omnibus of the One Thousand Series Four science fiction thrillers in one volume The four novellas of the One Thousand series are now available in one all-inclusive volume. See below for links to distributors. This omnibus includes: … Continue reading
Book Review: The Unfinished Odyssey of Robert Kennedy by David Halberstam
I’ve been wanting to read this book for years, but I’ve never been able to find it at a price I could afford. It’s the only Halberstam book I know of that’s out of print. I’m not really sure why. … Continue reading
Book Review: Stranger in a Strange Land: The Original Uncut Version by Robert A. Heinlein
“Stranger in a Strange Land” is among those books that were life-changing and profound literary experiences when I was growing up. It was a tremendously significant tradition-shattering revelation when I first read it, and coincided smoothly with the loose, iconoclastic … Continue reading
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Tagged book review, Robert A. Heinlein, science fiction, sixties, Stranger in a Strange Land
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