Ubik
"Every hypothesis that Joe and his teammates posit, every interpretation of how this semiosphere works, is frustrated."
Culture
Codes and myths, narratives and icons, rituals and representations.
Engine Summer
"Is this an actual thing I’m putting together, or am I fooling myself?"
Babel-17
"Babel-17 is a language of dense precision; each word opens up into a vast idea-complex."
Cat’s Cradle
“No damn cat, and no damn cradle.”
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…"
Media Diet
"This is what fascinates me about reading the classics: the same questions arise again and again."
Media Diet
"Good-natured comedy is what my brain is craving, at least for now."
Media Diet
"To be a successful semiotician, you just have to know as much as possible about the world…"
The Man with Six Senses
"We are surrounded by imperceptible, patterned forces that subtly guide our behavior…"
Media Diet
"The Financial Times supplements HTSI and Life & Arts consistently feed my curious mind — with just the right touch of hedonism."
Media Diet
"A character that's not given or explained but deconstructed — that is a semiotician’s dream."
Media Diet
"I prefer magazines whose editors are concerned not with what they suspect I might want to read, but rather with what they want me to read."