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conversations.value: Do you know a description for a book titled Death Sentences about Dick, Originally, English with the genre: Literature & Fiction, World Literature?
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conversations.value: Originally published in 1984 and available in English for the first time, this is the first novel by a noted Japanese science-fiction author. The story, which involves a mysterious poet and his strange, surreal writings, bears more than a passing resemblance to the mind-bending novels of Philip K. Dick (to whom the author has often been compared), and it is definitely not intended for readers who are unwilling to invest a certain amount of mental energy in the process of reading. Fans of well-known SF writers like Dick, Gibson, and Bradburythe authors poetic prose style is especially reminiscent of Bradburyshould definitely be steered in this books direction. --David Pitt
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conversations.value: Add another sentence about remaining, alluring, unfocused.
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conversations.value: Originally published in 1984 and available in English for the first time, this is the first novel by a noted Japanese science-fiction author. The story, which involves a mysterious poet and his strange, surreal writings, bears more than a passing resemblance to the mind-bending novels of Philip K. Dick (to whom the author has often been compared), and it is definitely not intended for readers who are unwilling to invest a certain amount of mental energy in the process of reading. The book defies easy categorizationit has elements of science fiction, horror, and the detective noveland its story, which begins in the mid-1980s and then jumps backward about four decades and then forward again, is a bit like a jigsaw puzzle, remaining alluring but unfocused until the bigger picture begins to form. Fans of well-known SF writers like Dick, Gibson, and Bradburythe authors poetic prose style is especially reminiscent of Bradburyshould definitely be steered in this books direction. --David Pitt
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conversations.value: Do you know a description for a book titled Death Sentences about Michael, Magazine, Pittsburgh with the genre: Mystery, Thriller & Suspense, Thrillers & Suspense?
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conversations.value: the author writes fiction, nonfiction and plays while continuing to work as an attorney. Born in inner-city Detroit, he did turns as a steelworker, advertising copywriter, medical editor and teacher before practicing law. Michael has written for Harpers Magazine, The National Law Journal, College English, and The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, among other publications. His novella, The History of My Final Illness, about the last five days in the life of Joseph Stalin, appeared in Eclectica Magazine. A play, Negative Velocity, about atom-bomb father J. Robert Oppenheimer, is a past winner of the New Playwrights Contest of the Fremont Center Theatre, located in South Pasadena, California. Michael lives in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania with his wife, Susan. He enjoys traveling outside the United States, swing jazz, fedoras, and Hardboiled fiction.