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Tommi @tommikakko.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Books of the week: "[Kracht's] Switzerland is a horrible dead place where everyone’s grandpa is a Nazi and into BDSM." tommikakko.com/2026/09/27/b...

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Books of the week

This week, I finished two very different books. One of them implies people on planet Earth have flourished to the point where interstellar travel and space exploration are possible. The other shows…

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JT Lindroos @oivas.com · 27/09/2026

Van Vogt is something of a guilty pleasure, though I feel no guilt! His plotting was informed by his dreams (or lack of sleep), as he would go to bed and set his alarm to wake up in a few hours time to continue writing! Also, Roger Corman invited him to help write Death Race 2000.

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Tommi @tommikakko.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

The plot does have a dream-like quality. It reads like Forbidden Planet era sci-fi done very well. He also calls the crew's Star Trek phasers "vibrators" which I thought was funny, because I'm twelve.

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