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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. You can follow Ted Gioia on Twitter at www.twitter.com/tedgioia.
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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.
In 1865, Jules Verne envisioned a lunar expedition that was surprisingly close to the later Apollo 11 mission
With the possible exception of Spielberg's Jaws no story has made an ocean seem quite so disturbing as Lem's Solaris
In his final book Austerlitz, W. G. Sebald has written a historical novel that seems to exist outside of history.
Geoff Dyer combines two short novels in his new book, and they might involve the same character . . . or maybe not.
Anthony Burgess feared his novel was too traditionally moralistic, but I doubt that will be your reaction to A Clockwork Orange.
There may be stories of interplanetary conflict with better special effects, but they don't come any smarter than this Heinlein classic.
A fire had destroyed Robert Silverberg's home, and to raise money quickly he churned out a masterwork of conceptual fiction.
Ben Okri's novel The Famished Road, a winner of the 1991 Booker Prize, is a classic of magical realism with a distinctively African twist.
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