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Ubik by Phillip K Dick

I can't remember reading it

"VALIS" by Philip K. Dick

When Worlds Collide

X mark.

A curiously ambivalent device. It can mean "no", in opposition to the "tick", or "yes", as on a ballot paper, or even "I can't write" (as the substitute a signature).

YO-HE-HO THEORY: In linguistics, the idea that language first began as a way to facilitate cooperative labor. Contrast with the bow-wow theory and the ding-dong theory.

ZEITGEIST
(German "Time-ghost" or "Spirit of the Age"): The preferences, fashions, and trends that characterize the intangible essence of a specific historical period.

(did I get it right, Richie?)

Also sprach Zarathustra by Friedrich Nietzsche

Broken Angels by Richard K. Morgan

Uber ! My new Favourite Sci-fi author!
My first on-line digital down-load purchase, yesterday.

Cat's Cradle

by Kurt Vonnegut

"Dr. Bloodmoney, or How We Got Along After the Bomb" by Philip K. Dick

Ender's Game


by Orson Scott Card

Farnum's Freehold by Robert Heinlein

Gateway by Frederik Pohl

Hyperbole is the mostest, importantestest thing of speech that will will ever come across.

IDIOM: In its loosest sense, the word idiom is often used as a synonym for dialect or idiolect. In its more scholarly and narrow sense, an idiom or idiomatic expression refers to a construction or expression in one language that cannot be matched or directly translated word-for-word in another language. For instance, the English expression, "She has a bee in her bonnet," meaning "she is obsessed," cannot be literally translated into another language word for word. It's a non-literal idiomatic expression, akin to "She is green with envy." In the same way, the Spanish phrase, "Me gustan los arboles," is usually translated as, "I like the trees," but if we were to pull the phrase apart and read it word for word, it would make no sense in analytical English (i.e., "To me pleases the trees").
See also denotation vs. connotation

JACOBEAN: During the reign of King James I, i.e., between the years 1603-1625. (Jacobus is the Latin form of James, hence Jacobean). Shakespeare wrote his later works in the Jacobean period. This period is often contrasted with the Elizabethan period.