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Tag: science fiction

Review: This Is How You Lose The Time War by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone

A head-spinning romp through time.

Contemporary, Fantasy, Fiction, Novel, science fiction, Time travel

Review: Parable Of The Sower by Octavia E. Butler

An eerily prescient vision of the climate-ruined near future.

Classics, Climate change, Fiction, Novel, science fiction, speculative fiction

Review: Frankenstein by Mary Shelley

There are a lot of feelings in Mary Shelley’s cautionary tale of science run amuck, but her depiction of nature in all its untrammelled grandeur is still something to behold.

Classics, Climate change, Frankenstein, Novel, science, science fiction, speculative fiction, Switzerland

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This collection of essays explores the uncertainty of living in a time where our impact on the environment has become entangled in all our experiences of nature.
Ronnie Scott’s first novel, The Adversary, is one of my favourite reads of the past couple of years. His new book, Shirley, cements him as one of my favourite writers.
18-year-old Colin, seeking adventure and escape from his quaint village life in 1970s Surrey, stumbles on his birthday over the ‘tasty’ older biker Ray in the woodlands of Box Hill in this taught, menacing and poignant novel.
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