Snow Crash
"Humans are wired to seek meaning… and this wiring renders us easily manipulated."
semiopunk
"Semiopunk" is (according to our sister website, HILOBROW) a subgenre of science fiction depicting semiotic-like adventures of analysis and decoding.
Engine Summer
"Is this an actual thing I’m putting together, or am I fooling myself?"
The Soft Machine
"Cut word lines — Cut music lines — Smash the control images — Smash the control machine"
The Einstein Intersection
Myths can and will control us… unless we study how myths work.
A Canticle for Leibowitz
"Puzzling over cultural fragments that we cannot immediately comprehend…"
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."