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Necessary questions

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

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

True history

This small book, published in 404 Ink’s ‘Inklings’ series, covers a subject close to my heart—since starting to listen heavily…

Arusa Qureshi, Flip The Script

So bad it’s… bad

We were on holiday in Northumberland, near Hadrian’s Wall, visiting lots of Roman archaeological sites, so we thought we’d watch…

Centurion, Dominic West, Michael Fassbender

Roman holiday

It’s a long time since I’ve been to a museum or a gallery, what with global pandemics and everything. We…

Corbridge Roman Town, English Heritage, Hadrian's Wall

Founding a field

Finally, an academic has written a book about what I spend most of my time doing. Well, I say finally……

Building Imaginary Worlds, Mark J.P. Wolf, Subcreation

Doubling and singling

This is the second cook-book that I’ve read simply because it happens to be a comic published by Shortbox. Like…

Bun's Comfort Food Corner, Chu Nap, Shortbox Comics

Deniable plausibility

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

Neal Stephenson, Termination Shock

Party in the temple

I spent a while back there in the early noughties thinking that all the fusions had been tried, and that…

Emma Jean Thackray, Yellow

A dream

I’ve known the story of Gawain and the Green Knight for a long time, initially from Roger Lancelyn Green’s King…

David Lowery, Dev Patel, Sarita Chowdhury, Sean Harris, The Green Knight

Aesthetic constructions

Bryan Talbot is a national treasure of British Comics, with a career that stretches from his underground Chester P. Hackenbush…

Bryan Talbot, Grandville, Grandville Mon Amour

Stop and look

I’m still undecided what I think the precise aesthetic or narrative effects are of using anthropomorphic animals as characters in…

Jack T. Cole, Shortbox Comics, Temple

Action stations

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

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

Risks and growth

There are a few bands or musical artists of whom it’s possible to say that ‘their first album is the…

A Small Unknowable Thing, Josienne Clarke

Truth is no fun

This one-shot comic, which is the first book I’ve pulled at random out of what is to be the last…

Gristle, Lily Blakely, Shortbox Comics

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