Book Review: The Dream of Perpetual Motion by Dexter Palmer

Book #84 of 2021: The Dream of Perpetual Motion by Dexter Palmer Dexter Palmer’s 2010 authorial debut is a dense and challenging read, loosely spinning an imaginative steampunk riff on Shakespeare’s The Tempest, but with the inclusion of multiple timelines, recursive stories within stories, and sometimes off-putting, stream-of-consciousness delving into character psyches. (The author’s bio …

Book Review: Version Control by Dexter Palmer

Book #131 of 2016: Version Control by Dexter Palmer Version Control is a slow burn of a novel. Although set in the near future and populated with new technologies like self-driving cars, it’s not until halfway through the book that it really becomes clear science-fiction. That might be frustrating in other stories, but Version Control …

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