A Well-Kept Life
2015
First Published
4.46
Average Rating
105
Number of Pages
Even the most mundane morning routines are mechanized in Mr. Tale’s world. He doesn’t need to lift a finger. Machines do everything for him, from start to finish. Never graphic, nor gory, nor vulgar in any way, Shinichi Hoshi manages to unnerve his readers with the simplest of language and barest of plots. Written between 1960 and 1984, these parables grow increasingly more spot-on with age. A Well-Kept Life is a blast of warning signals for today, a whistle-blower’s global call to attention.
Avg Rating
4.46
Number of Ratings
37
5 STARS
59%
4 STARS
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3 STARS
8%
2 STARS
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Author
Shinichi Hoshi
Author · 10 books
Shinichi Hoshi (Japanese: 星新一) is recognized as one of Japan's most influential science fiction writers of all time, He published more than 1,000 of his signature "short-short" stories. Some call his crisp, no-frills prose the "Haiku of Science Fiction."
