Tim Skellett Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
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Neuromancer
William GibsonTim SkellettWilliam Gibson's Neuromancer very slowly coming to life. Via @horatiupopovici https://t.co/bPaMBD08wI
Paperback, 2000
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Grendel
John GardnerTim Skellett“How, if I know all this, you may ask, could I hound him — shatter him again and again, dive him deeper and deeper into woe? I have no answer, except perhaps this: why should I not? Has he made any move to deserve my kindness?” ~ John Gardner, in Grendel https://t.co/WfNf1YR1SZ
Paperback, 1989
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Dust: Book Three of the Silo Series
Hugh HoweyTim Skellett4/4 Dust also comes up in SF/fantasy works by Hugh Howey, Paolo Bacigalupi, & Philip Pullman, but in metaphorical, terribly simplistic ways only with them, so let's not bother with those. Genesis 3:19 (& Ecclesiastes 3:20) ... for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return.
Paperback, 2016
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Attack Surface
Cory DoctorowTim SkellettI'm guessing both Cory Doctorow and Paolo Bacigalupi don't talk with many actual women. Maybe at them, sure. Doctorow's "Attack Surface" made me vow never to buy another of his #books. https://t.co/cRrqBwIAqO https://t.co/zT7x4K0SOu
Paperback, 2021
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Linguistics: Why It Matters
Geoffrey K. PullumTim Skellett@SgtDDonowitz @inversefox @DavidHirsh tcha. Even 30 years ago was already the Cambodian killing-fields and Chomsky. On the other side, already, was Geoffrey Pullum's famous extempore lecture on how Chomsky & his acolytes had grossly hobbled the entire field of grammatical linguistics for two generations, now four
Hardcover, 2018
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The Furies
Keith RobertsTim Skellett6/n Absolute musts: John Wyndham, "The Chrysalids" (1955; US title "Re-Birth"), "The Kraken Wakes" (1953, US title "Out of the Deeps"), "The Midwich Cuckoos", "The Day of the Triffids". "The Furies", by Keith Roberts. Everything by Terry Pratchett, Connie Willis, or KJ Parker. https://t.co/HtpnE3gv19
Paperback, 2025
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Of Mice and Men
John SteinbeckTim SkellettThree novels by John Steinbeck that everyone should read: The Winter Of Our Discontent Of Mice And Men East Of Eden
Paperback, 1993
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The Suffragette Movement: An Intimate Account of Persons and Ideals - With an Introduction by Dr Richard Pankhurst
E. Sylvia PankhurstTim Skellett7/n Emmeline Pankhurst was so gung-ho for British militarism she effectively excommunicated her own daughters, Sylvia & Adela, from her faction of the suffragette movement, along with other women like Mary Leigh.
Hardcover, 2010
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Going Postal
Terry PratchettTim Skellett5/n If you want cinematic adaptations of Terry Pratchett's works at their best, go for Hogfather. Then, Going Postal, although that one is a tiny bit (only) spoilt by an American Puritan ending. Good Omens also OK. Avoid The Watch like the plague. https://t.co/YdZmhwcjlc
Paperback, Mass Market, 2014
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Grendel
John Gardner GardnerTim Skellett“How, if I know all this, you may ask, could I hound him — shatter him again and again, dive him deeper and deeper into woe? I have no answer, except perhaps this: why should I not? Has he made any move to deserve my kindness?” ~ John Gardner, in Grendel https://t.co/WfNf1YR1SZ
Hardcover, 2001
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