Book Summaries Flashcards
The Celestial Omnibus
Themes of imagination and literature. Summary is a young boy stumbles upon a bus stop that the locals do not encourage or believe in. The bus takes him on a journey through the sky.
The Ensouled Violin by H.P. Blavatsky
Body horror, violinist, obsession
The Reluctant Dragon by Kenneth Grahame
Friendly story about supposed foe being an actual friend.
The Kingdom of Cards by Rabindranath Tagore
Allegory, human hierarchy, breaking the mold with the joker character
Strike and Bolt by Michael Sheyahshe
The use of AI, superhero sons, mom is taken and dies, but is brought back
Ayanisach by Todd Houseman
Retelling of a story, about living in harmony with mother earth
War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells
World being watched by intelligence greater than man’s, humankind as stupid or folly, mars as another planet for life
Three Laws of Robotics by Isaac Asimov
Rules for robots in regards to human life
Transformation by Mary Shelley
Man is exiled from his homeland, imagery of the water in front of him, he makes a deal with a strange creature
Frankenstein chapter 4&5
Path of knowledge, lab creation and intense study, obsession, increased awareness of human material and shape in order to effectively recreate
Friend Island by Francis Stevens
Women as the ruling sex, the island and Anita, I remember this one well
Vaster than Empires and More Slow by Ursula K. Le Guin
Exploratory ship that lands on a planet, the team has rising tensions, the forest is personified and has intense emotion towards the team
The Voices of Time by J.G. Ballard
Where people eternally sleep, follows a neurosurgeon as he fights to stay awake, there is also the character that is eternally awake
The Comet by W.E.B. Du Bois
Relationship between a black man and white woman after the universe has collapsed, they try to start a new race
The Princess Steel W.E.B Du Bois
The use of the megascope, about technology, about folklore, critique of historical colonization
