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I vainly tried to fight off a menace desperate and ineluctable.

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Thomas Pynchon’s VINELAND

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Lois McMaster Bujold’s THE VOR GAME

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From GEEK LOVE and LONDON FIELDS to GHOST IN THE SHELL

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Alan Moore’s FROM HELL

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The first step was to get free of my bonds, gag, and blindfold.

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Grant Morrison’s DOOM PATROL

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John Le Carré’s THE RUSSIA HOUSE

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Masamune Shirow’s GHOST IN THE SHELL

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Philip Kerr’s MARCH VIOLETS

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Dan Simmons’s HYPERION

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Neil Gaiman’s THE SANDMAN

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It was the ecstasy of nightmare and the summation of the fiendish.

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Octavia E. Butler’s IMAGO

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Martin Amis’s LONDON FIELDS