A Canticle for Leibowitz
"Puzzling over cultural fragments that we cannot immediately comprehend…"
semiopunk
The Man with Six Senses
"We are surrounded by imperceptible, patterned forces that subtly guide our behavior…"
Embassytown
"The Ariekei's discovery of the myriad possibilities of signifier/signified connections proves catastrophic."
The Glass Bead Game
The game is a difficult and rewarding "exercise in deconstruction and decoding, pattern recognition, and patterning."
Validation Session
A brilliant white pattern, or schema — a functional-looking mandala — appeared on the sticky tabletop.