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Ted Gioia is a writer and musician. He is the author of Delta Blues, The History of Jazz and, most recently, The Birth (and Death) of the Cool.
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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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Book Review: Lark and Termite by Jayne Anne Phillips
Jayne Anne Phillips impresses in this novel, both tragic and life-affirming, about a teenage girl and her disabled brother.
This 1870 novel by Jules Verne about a lunar mission gone wrong is a nineteenth century version of Apollo 13.
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Conceptual Fiction: From Earth to the Moon by Jules Verne
In 1865, Jules Verne envisioned a lunar expedition that was surprisingly close to the later Apollo 11 mission
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Conceptual Fiction: Solaris by Stanisław Lem
With the possible exception of Spielberg's Jaws no story has made an ocean seem quite so disturbing as Lem's Solaris
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