I recently finished reading the Ultimate, Ultimate, Ultimate Mallworld by S. P. Somtow, and I’m very happy I picked up this book. I may sum it up by saying it’s like Idiocracy mashed up with a parody of 1980s consumerism then launched into space, but I actually found out it was more than that. Somtow creates here a consistent (if zany) universe that has a lot to say about how we treat history today. Continue reading Mallworld
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Fire from the Wine Dark Sea
My reading material of choice lately has been Fire from the Wine Dark Sea by S. P. Somtow (then, Somtow Sucharitkul). As you may have heard from me before, S. P. Somtow is one of my favorite authors, so a collection of his short stories was right up my alley. I initially picked it up for The 13th Utopia, a short story that takes place in the Inquestor universe, that I had only ever gotten the chance to read in the bowels of the library from an old issue of Analog. I thought I’d never get the chance to read it again, until I saw this collection on Somtow’s publications page, and I knew I should pick it up. Continue reading Fire from the Wine Dark Sea