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Ted Gioia is a writer and musician. He is editor of jazz.com, and also writes on books at Great Books Guide and The New Canon
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Book Review: The Selected Works of T. S. Spivet by Reif Larsen
The Smithsonian wants to honor a brilliant mapmaker. But they don't know he is just twelve years old.
104
Conceptual Fiction: The Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis
More than a half-century after C.S. Lewis wrote his Narnia stories, controversy still surrounds these popular tales.
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Conceptual Fiction: Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell
In a book that is half novel and half puzzle, David Mitchell weaves together six very stylized and contrasting narratives.
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Conceptual Fiction: Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert Heinlein
Seven years before the Summer of Love, Robert Heinlein already had the vibe, as he shows in this cult novel.
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Book Review: The Song is You by Arthur Phillips
The Song is You is a love story for the iPod generation, constructed like a well-paced playlist
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Conceptual Fiction: A Fall of Moondust by Arthur C. Clarke
This lunar adventure combines the worst aspects of a mining disaster, a lost in space story and The Poseidon Adventure.
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Conceptual Fiction: Dying Inside by Robert Silverberg
Robert Silverberg's classic novel about a mind-reader losing his talent mirrors changes in the author's own life.
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Conceptual Fiction: The First Men in the Moon by H.G. Wells
H.G. Wells's science may be faulty in The First Men in the Moon, but his storytelling is first rate.
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Book Review: Brooklyn by Colm Tóibín
Brooklyn reminds us that new worlds are constructed only by those brave enough to walk away from the old ones.
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Conceptual Fiction: Lord of Light by Roger Zelazny
This is a mix of theology and technology: imagine Edith Hamilton's Mythology with much better weapons.
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