Barbelith Book Club

From Barbelith

Welcome to the annotations and bibliography area of the Barbelith wiki.

Here are some of the texts, authors & myth cycles in which Barbelith has voiced an interest:

• Arthuriana - Tales of King Arthur & His Knights.

• Tales of Jerry Cornelius - Michael Moorcock's New Wave series about a gender- and dimension-shifting assassin/rock star/demi-god.

• Cryptonomicon - literary cyberpunk author Neal Stephenson's novel about codes, code breakers, World War II and cultural relations between East and West.

• His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman's dark fantasy trilogy.

• Homer - the blind writer of Greek epics, laid the foundation for European literature.

• China Mieville - an author about whom I know very little.

• The Crying of Lot 49 - the short, dense conspiracy fiction masterpiece by Thomas Pynchon.

More to be added as they come up....