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The Diary of a Young Girl
Anne Frank was thirteen years old when she received a small, red-checkered diary as a birthday present on June 12, 1942. She was a Jewish girl growing up in Amsterdam, an occupied city where the Nazi regime had been steadily tightening its grip since the German invasion of the Netherlands in May 1940. She began…
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Slaughterhouse-Five
Kurt Vonnegut published Slaughterhouse-Five in 1969, after more than two decades of trying to write about something that had happened to him during World War II: the Allied firebombing of Dresden, Germany, in February 1945. He was a young American prisoner of war, held with other captured soldiers in an underground meatpacking facility beneath the…
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Neuromancer
In the summer of 1984, a first novel arrived in science fiction with no great announcement and changed the genre permanently. William Gibson’s Neuromancer was not received as a triumph at the outset; it made its way through readers like a signal through noise, found by those who felt the world Gibson described was somehow…
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