Through Darkest America – Neal Barrett Jr.
Howie Ryder’s pastoral childhood is torn from him as a brutal civil war comes home, sending him on a trek across the post-apocalyptic wilderness of Darkest America.
Tag Archives: 1980s
Burning Chrome – William Gibson
Collecting ten of William Gibson’s early cyberpunk short stories from the late 1970s and early 1980s, dark visions of a globalized, high-tech, and deadly future.
Radio Free Albemuth – Philip K. Dick
As the United States is taken over by fervent anti-Communist paranoia, one man receives visions sent by an alien divinity. These hold all the answers for Earth’s salvation.
Books of Blood, Vol. 1 – Clive Barker
The first of Clive Barker’s six-volume horror anthology series, the book that kickstarted his career: six unnerving stories of horror and blood.
The Cormorant – Stephen Gregory
A young English family inherit a Welsh cottage under the prevision they care for the deceased’s pet cormorant—a savage and wild bird with an preternatural presence…
The Windchime Legacy – A.W. Mykel
The greatest secret of America’s intelligence agencies is SENTINEL: a computer intelligence, a thinking intelligence, far advanced and in control of American intelligence …
Grass – Sheri S. Tepper
A plague threatens to doom all of humanity, but a cure may lie on the planet Grass—a world of boundless prairie ruled by elitist aristocrats and their demonic mounts.
Mrs. White – Margaret Tracy
In this taut thriller, Mrs. White begins to suspect that her husband is really a serial killer, whose gruesome murders have rocked a small Connecticut town.
Dead in the West – Joe R. Lansdale
Reverend Jebediah Mercer picked the wrong day to hold a revival at Mud Creek—the townsfolk just hung themselves an indian shaman, who cursed the town so its dead will rise…
Michigan Roll – Tom Kakonis
Timothy Waverly heads to Traverse City, MI, planning to spy on his estranged son. Plans change when he meets seductress Midnight and is sucked into her troubles with the mob.
Schismatrix Plus – Bruce Sterling
Abelard Lindsay, disgraced Shaper diplomat, sets out on a grand tour of the posthuman solar system, showcasing some extreme changes in our far-flung future.
Battered, Tattered, Yellowed, & Creased 