From Hell is an ambitious, sprawling exploration of the Jack the Ripper murders which builds on a long disproved, elaborate conspiracy theory involving the Crown and Freemasons.
Tag: speculative fiction
Philip K. Dick · Flow My Tears, The Policeman Said
What sets this dystopia about identity and perception apart from others is the intersection of a paranoid police state with shallow celebrity pop culture.
Ken Liu · The Paper Menagerie And Other Stories
A collection of stories mostly at home in the sci-fi, speculative fiction, and silkpunk genres which often deal with Asian heritage and the difficulty of balancing Eastern and Western cultures.
Stephen King · The Institute
A fast-paced page-turner with strong Firestarter and Stranger Things vibes, as well as a provocative thought experiment in ethics.
Ira Levin · The Boys From Brazil
In this wild ride of a genre-defying novel—part speculative fiction, part thriller, part sci-fi, all based on real historic figures—Levin explores a far-fetched but chilling what if?-scenario.
Sinclair Lewis · It Can’t Happen Here
Doubtlessly the most chillingly prescient of all dystopian novels I've read, Lewis' keen observations are of such an uncanny accuracy in today's political climate in the USA that the novel easily transcends almost an entire century.
Harlan Ellison · Strange Wine
"This is a collection of fantasies, strange wine. Fifteen draughts your mind can quaff. They lie here, silent, waiting for you to activate them with your imagination."
Philip K. Dick · The Man in the High Castle
The year is 1962. The Axis Powers won WWII, and the world was divided up between them – the former United States is now jointly occupied by Germany to the East, and Japan to the West. For all intents and purposes, the Nazis are the world’s ultimate superpower.
George Orwell · Nineteen Eighty-Four
"Power is not a means; it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship. The object of persecution is persecution. The object of torture is torture. The object of power is power."
Aldous Huxley · Brave New World
Brave New World teaches the lesson that perhaps what we want isn’t necessarily what we should get - individual freedom, even at the cost of some suffering, is better than state-sponsored contentment.
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