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Category: Fiction

Representing

This third and final part of Kim Stanley Robinson’s Science In The Capital series maintains the very consistent tone established … More

Kim Stanley Robinson, Science In The Capital, Sixty Days And Counting

A shotgun blast of flawed brilliance

Seveneves is Neal Stephenson in his pomp. This book combines all his most splendid qualities as a writer: his febrile … More

Neal Stephenson, Seveneves

Necessary questions

Fifty Degrees Below takes over more or less exactly where Forty Signs Of Rain leaves off, but it shifts focus … More

Fifty Degrees Below, Kim Stanley Robinson, Science In The Capital

Deniable plausibility

I’ve been on a mission recently to catch up with the output of two of my favourite writers, Kim Stanley … More

Neal Stephenson, Termination Shock

Action stations

Kim Stanley Robinson keeps coming back to what might be described as ‘environmental fiction’, and ecological themes are never far … More

Forty Signs of Rain, Kim Stanley Robinson, Science In The Capital

A world of experience

I’m not too sure why it’s taken me so long to get around to reading Hilary Mantel’s novels about the … More

Hilary Mantel, Wolf Hall

An orrery of thought

Having finished reading Neal Stephenson’s epic historical trilogy The Baroque Cycle it’s quite hard, on reflection, to recall everything that’s … More

Neal Stephenson, The Baroque Cycle, The System Of The World

Hardy perennials

Kim Stanley Robinson is known for not writing stories about soldiers, or other stereotypically heroic figures—which in our deeply fucked-up … More

Kim Stanley Robinson, New York 2140

Central admixture

Having recently read and written about Quicksilver, the book which precedes The Confusion in Neal Stephenson’s Baroque Cycle trilogy, there’s … More

Neal Stephenson, The Baroque Cycle, The Confusion

Light touch, heavy themes

I inhabit a timeline in which the definitive version of Michael Moorcock’s huge fantasy sequence is The Tale of The … More

A Nomad of the Time Streams, Michael Moorcock, Oswald Bastable, The Land Leviathan, The Steel Tsar, The Tale of the Eternal Champion, The Warlord of the Air

Everything happens only once

My exploration of Kim Stanley Robinson’s oeuvre is proceeding in a kind of pincer movement, reading books alternately from either … More

Kim Stanley Robinson, The Years of Rice and Salt

A work of play

This Neal Stephenson dude likes to go large. Enormous books, with vast casts of characters, containing epic and sprawling storylines … More

Neal Stephenson, Quicksilver

Indulging in the immediate future

In Red Moon Kim Stanley Robinson turns his attention to the Earth’s satellite in much the same way that he … More

Kim Stanley Robinson, Red Moon

Mystery abides

First-person narratives often use the grammatical device of the first-person pronoun to solicit the reader’s close identification with the narrator, … More

Piranesi, Susanna Clarke

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