The Peripheral by William Gibson
Chris Lites reviews The Peripheral by William Gibson today in Rumpus Books.
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Chris Lites is finishing his MA in Creative Writing at DePaul Univesity. He doesn't have many credits to brag about yet. When he does, he will be sure to e-mail them to each and everyone one of you individually along with a current X-ray of his head to show you the ideas certainly don't come from there.
The Shining Girls by Lauren Beukes
Beukes, who gained recognition for the literary science-fiction noir Zoo City, is a South African writer fostering the gradual recognition that science fiction and literary fiction can be at least neighbors if not actual housemates. The Shining Girls offers the reader a time-traveling serial killer stalking his victims through Chicago from the Great Depression to the early 90s. Via the properties of a mysterious house which seemingly exists outside of time, Harper Curtis, the novel’s antagonist, is able to pass between eras freely.
You by Austin Grossman
The last pages of You by Austin Grossman recount a timeline of video game history. This timeline ends in March 2008 with the death of Gary Gygax, creator of Dungeons…
“Present Shock,” by Douglas Rushkoff
If the theories in Present Shock: When Everything Happens Now are true, you may have a hard time finishing this review. In the interest of the perpetual now, I’ll cut…
A History of Potential
In his new history of the experimental writing movement, Oulipo, Many Subtle Channels, Daniel Levin Becker goes where few have gone.