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Chimera

John Barth

Contemporary Fiction

By the winner of the National Book Award and bestselling author of The Tidewater Tales, three of the great myth

fantasy, nba, postmodern

Cities of the Red Night

William Burroughs

Contemporary Fiction

While young men wage war against an evil empire of zealous mutants, the population of this modern inferno is af

beat, pirates, postmodern

The Magus

John Fowles

Contemporary Fiction

This daring literary thriller, rich with eroticism and suspense, is one of John Fowles best-loved and bestselli

film, postmodern

Slaughterhouse-Five

or The Children’s Crusade

Kurt Vonnegut

Contemporary Fiction

Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best novels of all time, Slaughterhouse-Five, an American clas

bestseller, didactic, film, postmodern, ptsd, satire, ww2

Nova Express

William Burroughs

Contemporary Fiction

The Soft Machine introduced us to the conditions of a universe where endemic lusts of the mind and body pray up

beat, postmodern

The Aristos

John Fowles

Contemporary Fiction

Two years after The Collector had brought him international recognition and a year before he published The Magu

aphorism, collection, essays, modern, philosophy, postmodern

Ghost of Chance

William S Burroughs

Contemporary Fiction

Ghost of Chance is an adventure story set in the jungle of Madagascar and filled with the obsessions that mark

beat, ecology, postmodern, shortstories

Daniel Martin

John Fowles

Contemporary Fiction

Set internationally and spanning three decades, Daniel Martin is, among other things, an exploration of what it

english, postmodern

A Maggot

John Fowles

Contemporary Fiction

In his prologue, John Fowles tells us that A Maggot began as a vision he had of five travellers riding with mys

historical, mystery, postmodern, satan

The French Lietenants Woman

John Fowles

Contemporary Fiction

The scene is the village of Lyme Regis on Dorsets Lyme Bay…the largest bite from the underside of Englands ou

film, historical, postmodern

Madness and Civilization

A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason

Michel Foucault

Philosophy

Michel Foucault examines the archeology of madness in the West from 1500 to 1800 – from the late Middle

french, historiography, postmodern, structuralist

The Real Life of Sebastian Knight

Vladimir Nabokov

Contemporary Fiction

The Real Life of Sebastian Knight is a perversely magical literary detective story – subtle, intricate, leading

individualism, language, postmodern

The Soft Machine

William Burroughs

Contemporary Fiction

In Naked Lunch, William S. Burroughs revealed his genius. In The Soft Machine he begins an adventure that will

beat, drugs, postmodern

The Ebony Tower

John Fowles

Contemporary Fiction

The Ebony Tower is a series of novellas, rich in imagery, exploring the nature of art. In the title story, a jo

collection, novella, postmodern

The Collector

John Fowles

Contemporary Fiction

Withdrawn, uneducated and unloved, Frederick collects butterflies and takes photographs. He is obsessed with a

postmodern, serialkiller

The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch

Philip K Dick

Science Fiction

In the overcrowded world and cramped space colonies of the late 21st century, tedium can be endured through the

drugs, future, paranoid, postmodern, scifi

Solar Lottery

Philip K Dick

Science Fiction

The operating principle was random selection: positions of public power were decided by a sophisticated lottery

paranoid, postmodern, scifi

The Golden Man

Philip K Dick

Science Fiction

Heres a chance to read not just one but fifteen stories created by one of the most popular science fiction writ

collection, drugs, postmodern, scifi, shortstories