Items25The creator’s order
  1. 1密やかな結晶 (1994)密やかな結晶 (1994) 7.7/10 on Open LibraryPublished 1 Jan 1994Known in English as The Memory Police, Ogawa's novel makes the loss of ordinary things a crisis of shared experience. A writer shelters someone whose ability to remember places him in danger, while the island's authorities police what can be retained. Stephen Snyder's English translation preserves…0
  2. 2Tell Me an Ending (2022)Tell Me an Ending (2022)Published 1 Jan 2022A memory-removal business has clients who must live with decisions they can no longer fully reconstruct. Harkin follows several connected lives, letting a missing piece matter differently to the person who wanted it gone, someone close to them and the company that handled it. The ensemble makes…0
  3. 3A Memory Called Empire (2019)A Memory Called Empire (2019) 8.2/10 on Open LibraryPublished 1 Jan 2019Mahit arrives as an ambassador carrying an unusual form of continuity with her predecessor: a stored personality intended to help her do the job. Martine makes that inheritance both intimate and politically dangerous. What appears to be knowledge can also be another person's unfinished loyalties,…0
  4. 4The Membranes (2021)The Membranes (2021) 7.0/10 on Open LibraryPublished 1 Jan 2021Momo's work caring for other people's skin offers little protection when her own account of her life begins to come into question. Chi Ta-wei places this personal uncertainty inside a submerged city shaped by media power and exploited cyborg labour. Ari Larissa Heinrich's English translation makes…0
  5. 5The Lathe of Heaven (1971)The Lathe of Heaven (1971) 8.0/10 on Open LibraryPublished 1 Jan 1971George Orr remembers the world before his dreams changed it, leaving him with an experience others cannot simply verify. His psychiatrist sees an opportunity to improve reality, and the imbalance between them becomes as important as the impossible ability. Le Guin gives the argument the pressure of…0
  6. 6Recursion (2019)Recursion (2019) 8.0/10 on Open LibraryPublished 1 Jan 2019Memories of apparently unlived lives trouble a detective, while a neuroscientist's work opens a different approach to the problem. Crouch makes recollection convincing enough to challenge the ordinary evidence of a life, then follows the consequences into grief and attachment. This is a fast…0
  7. 7The Echo WifeThe Echo WifeA scientist's cloning achievement enters her marriage, and the resulting conflict exposes how much control a creator expects over a created person's character. Gailey makes self-description part of the problem: professional assurance does not make the narrator's account of herself complete. Read…0
  8. 8Never Let Me Go (2005)Never Let Me Go (2005) 7.7/10 on Open LibraryPublished 1 Jan 2005Kathy's recollections of school and friendship hold information whose meaning she could not fully understand at the time. Ishiguro lets the gap between experience and its authorised explanation emerge through a familiar voice, rather than announcing a system from outside it. This is the quietest…0
  9. 9De ansatte (2018)De ansatte (2018) 9.0/10 on Open LibraryPublished 1 Jan 2018The Employees, in Martin Aitken's English translation, presents testimony collected from a spacecraft's human and manufactured workers. Their attachments, complaints and longings exceed the administrative form used to contain them. Ravn asks the reader to assemble a situation from statements whose…0
  10. 10Amatka (2012)Amatka (2012)Published 1 Jan 2012An information worker's visit to a tightly controlled colony becomes an investigation into what its administration wants people to accept. Tidbeck makes language part of the world's physical conditions, so an authorised description has more than rhetorical force. Read the author's own English…0