{"id":3741,"date":"2012-02-24T22:38:37","date_gmt":"2012-02-24T22:38:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.revolutionsf.com\/revblogs\/geekcurmudgeon\/2012\/02\/24\/books-received-22412-part-ii-3\/"},"modified":"2012-02-24T22:38:37","modified_gmt":"2012-02-24T22:38:37","slug":"books-received-22412-part-ii-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.revolutionsf.com\/revblogs\/geekcurmudgeon\/2012\/02\/24\/books-received-22412-part-ii-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Books received 2\/24\/12 Part II"},"content":{"rendered":"

Let\u2019s take a quick look to see what\u2019s arrived at the Geek Compound. <\/p>\n

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Liminal States<\/span><\/a>
\nby Zack Parsons<\/span><\/p>\n

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Deep water rises.
\nAbandon your spire.
\nIt is coming.<\/p>\n

It is 1874 and Gideon Long is dying. Wandering the savage desert of the New Mexico Territory, he craves a last drink before he bleeds out. On the brink of madness, he discovers a place best left forgotten and makes an insidious bargain: escape his fate and incur a debt too great for one man. His country will pay the price over the twisting course of more than a century and Gideon will learn there are worse things to bargain with than the devil.<\/p>\n

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Care To Make Love In That Gross Little Space Between Cars?: A Believer Book of Advice<\/span><\/a>
\nEdited by Mike Sachs and Eric Spitznagel
\nIntroduction by Judd Apatow
\nSecond attempt at an introduction by Patton Oswalt
\nCover by Christopher King<\/span><\/p>\n

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The Believer<\/span> magazine presents a compendium of advice from producers, writers, and actors of The Daily Show<\/span>, Saturday Night Live<\/span>, Parks and Recreation<\/span>, Late Show with David Letterman<\/span>, The Hangover<\/span>, and The Colbert Report<\/span>, along with other musicians, cartoonists, New Yorker<\/span> writers, and those similarly unqualified to offer guidance.<\/p>\n

Here Amy Sedaris describes the perfect murder for unwanted hermit crabs\u2014you will need a piece of meat and a brick. Simon Rich explains how to avoid being found dead in your underwear by firemen\u2014buy some long johns. Zach Galifianakis provides insight into how he changed his name without a social security card\u2014he just started calling himself Adam Zapple, and it stuck. Bob Saget finally illuminates what \u201cfriends with benefits\u201d really means\u2014a nonsexual relationship wherein your ex makes monetary deposits into your bank account. <\/p>\n

Contributors include: <\/p>\n

Rob Baedeker, Anne Beatts, Elizabeth Beckwith, Jerri Blank, Roz Chast, Louis C.K., Mike Doughty, Dave Eggers, Rich Fulcher, Zach Galifianakis, Dan Guterman, Anthony Jeselnik, Julie Klausner, Lisa Lampanelli, Nick Hornby, Sam Lipsyte, Liam Lynch, Merrill Markoe, Rose McGowan, Misc. Canadian rock musicians, Laraine Newman, The Pleasure Syndicate, Bob Powers, Simon Rich, Bob Saget, George Saunders, Kristen Schaal, Paul Scheer, Amy Sedaris, Allison Silverman, Paul Simms, Brendon Small, Jerry Stahl, Scott Thompson, Fred Willard, Cintra Wilson, Weird Al Yankovic, and Alan Zweibel<\/p>\n

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The Games<\/span><\/a>
\nby Ted Kosmatka
\nCover by David Stevenson<\/span><\/p>\n

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This stunning first novel from Nebula Award and Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award finalist Ted Kosmatka is a riveting tale of science cut loose from ethics. Set in an amoral future where genetically engineered monstrosities fight each other to the death in an Olympic event, The Games<\/span> envisions a harrowing world that may arrive sooner than you think.<\/p>\n

Silas Williams is the brilliant geneticist in charge of preparing the U.S. entry into the Olympic Gladiator competition, an internationally sanctioned bloodsport with only one rule: no human DNA is permitted in the design of the entrants. Silas lives and breathes genetics; his designs have led the United States to the gold in every previous event. But the other countries are catching up. Now, desperate for an edge in the upcoming Games, Silas\u2019s boss engages an experimental supercomputer to design the genetic code for a gladiator that cannot be beaten.<\/p>\n

The result is a highly specialized killing machine, its genome never before seen on earth. Not even Silas, with all his genius and experience, can understand the horror he had a hand in making. And no one, he fears, can anticipate the consequences of entrusting the act of creation to a computer\u2019s cold logic. <\/p>\n

Now Silas races to understand what the computer has wrought, aided by a beautiful xenobiologist, Vidonia Jo\u00e3o. Yet as the fast-growing gladiator demonstrates preternatural strength, speed, and\u2014most disquietingly\u2014intelligence, Silas and Vidonia find their scientific curiosity giving way to a most unexpected emotion: sheer terror.<\/p>\n

Part I<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Books received 2\/24\/12 Part II<\/a> was originally published on The Geek Curmudgeon<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Let\u2019s take a quick look to see what\u2019s arrived at the Geek Compound. Liminal States by Zack Parsons Promo copy: Deep water rises. Abandon your spire. It is coming. It is 1874 and Gideon Long is dying. Wandering the savage … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3741","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\t\n