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Alan’s 2025 Year in Books
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Alan Sharp
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A Grim Almanac of York
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2015
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6 editions
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A Grim Almanac of Edinburgh & the Lothians
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2009
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Jack the Ripper and the Irish Press
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Katabasis
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| This a hard one to categorise. It isn’t an end of the world story, and it isn’t an alien invasion story, and yet in some respects it is both. The closest comparison I can come to is Arthur C Clarke’s Childhood’s End. It follows the same basic premise ...more | |
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| When William Gibson exploded onto the scene with Neuromancer, he didn’t invent Cyberpunk, but he codified it, creating many of the tropes that would come to define the genre. Creating a fantastical and yet strangely believable future, it rightly beca ...more | |
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Of the various nominated novels this year, this one had the most pre-awards buzz. Indeed, it has now already picked up this year’s Nebula. And, with reservations, I can fully understand why. If I had to describe it, I would call it a cross between The ...more |
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Of the various nominated novels this year, this one had the most pre-awards buzz. Indeed, it has now already picked up this year’s Nebula. And, with reservations, I can fully understand why. If I had to describe it, I would call it a cross between The ...more |
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“ Was I sleeping, while the others suffered? Am I sleeping now? Tomorrow, when I wake, or think I do, what shall I say of today? That with Estragon my friend, at this place, until the fall of night, I waited for Godot? That Pozzo passed, with his carrier, and that he spoke to us? Probably. But in all that what truth will there be? He'll know nothing. He'll tell me about the blows he received and I'll give him a carrot. (pause) Astride of a grave and a difficult birth. Down in the hole, lingeringly, the grave digger puts on the forceps. We have time to grow old. The air is full of our cries. But habit is a great deadener. At me too someone is looking, of me too someone is saying, He is sleeping, he knows nothing, let him sleep on. (Pause.) I can't go on! (Pause.) What have I said? ”
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