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September 14, 2015
Infinite Hyperspace Folding Incident
I started this blog three years ago last Thursday, and over those years I’ve moved from considering publishing to having published. The way I use this blog has changed too, so it seemed like time to shift some things around. I’ve been feeling slightly cramped by the margins on my theme for a while: it […]
September 11, 2015
The Friendship of Mortals by Audrey Driscoll
Counterbalancing the hidden experiments and disdain for inconvenient laws of the mad scientist with a sympathetic search for solutions to human misery, Driscoll forces the reader to face the reasons for their horror: is visceral attachment to the flesh of … Continue reading →
September 9, 2015
Halloween Never Ended
While shopping this fair morn, I turned to face an aisle clad in reds and gold. Pies of mince and cakes of festal mien. I reeled back, dear reader. The Christmas Out of Time had infested another year. But I … Continue reading →
September 7, 2015
Outside Our Seeing
In the mid-eighties I watched a science-fiction series about an American family who were transported to a planet ruled by an insane tyrant. Years later, after discovering Doctor Who, Blake’s 7, and other series from the period still held up, … Continue reading →
September 4, 2015
The Face Stealer by Robert Scott-Norton
Partway between police procedural and conspiracy horror, this novel provides plenty of unknown to fear without sacrificing a solid basis of reality. When Max Harding’s wife, Cindy, finds out he is having an affair and attacks him, he thinks his … Continue reading →
September 2, 2015
Fear of the Unseen
When I read this article on not picking books by the author’s sex or race, I agreed with the spirit: knowing the author’s gender, sexuality, or even hat size shouldn’t change your enjoyment. However, something niggled at me about it … Continue reading →
August 31, 2015
A Holiday From Economics
Yesterday’s Independent contained an interesting, if brief, article about citizens deserving frequent long weekends. I am in favour of not only this step but going further: moving to a post-scarcity economy where we don’t need to work to fund our … Continue reading →
August 28, 2015
Missing, Assumed Dead by Marva Dasef
Combining a sense of threat with modern love, without either descending into brutality or over-idealising events, Dasef creates a mystery-romance that will appeal to a range of readers. When Kameron McBride relieves court papers notifying her she is the last … Continue reading →
August 26, 2015
Rudely Ignoring People by Reading has Gone Mainstream.
Originally posted on amiecus curiae:
Think about it. Used to be if you were hanging out at a coffee shop or even around the house, if you had something in front of your nose like a book or a computer,…
Think about it. Used to be if you were hanging out at a coffee shop or even around the house, if you had something in front of your nose like a book or a computer,…
August 24, 2015
The Death of a Thousand Annotations
Last week’s To Be Read Podcast was on the effect of school set texts on later reading habits. Frequent visitors will be unsurprised to know having to read certain books didn’t put me off reading, but I did notice an … Continue reading →
