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The discovery of the chrono-synclastic infundibula said to mankind in effect: “What makes you think you’re going anywhere?”
Kurt Vonnegut • The Sirens of Titan
Douglas Adams. Kurt Vonnegut. Neal Stephenson. Richard K. Morgan. Stephen King. Orson Scott Card. Terry Pratchett. Terry Brooks. Bester, Bradbury, Haldeman, Heinlein, Tolkien, Vance, Gibson, Gaiman, Sterling, Moorcock, Scalzi, Zelazny.
Ernest Cline • Ready Player One: The global bestseller and now a major Steven Spielberg movie
CHRONO-SYNCLASTIC INFUNDIBULA—Just
Kurt Vonnegut • The Sirens of Titan
Ursula K. Le Guin, Thomas M. Disch, Joanna Russ, Samuel R. Delany, Gene Wolfe, Arkady and Boris Strugatsky, and Stanisław Lem.
Stanislaw Lem • The Truth and Other Stories
Death and the Penguin (Melville International Crime)
‘Wer reitet so spät, Durch Nacht und Wind? Es ist der Vater Mit seinem Kind.’
Philip K. Dick • The Man in the High Castle (Penguin Modern Classics)
Quickly was he among the haunts and low places, rubbing elbows with such denizens who did not exist in the comfort of daylight and human industry. Mishaps and history had condemned them, these crippled minds and mangled bodies,
Chuck Palahniuk • Make Something Up
The God hypothesis, for example, allows you to have an unparalleled understanding of absolutely everything while knowing absolutely nothing . . . Give a man a highly simplified model of the world and interpret every event on the basis of this simple model.