Although it might seem strange now, there was a time when science fiction was perceived as an overwhelmingly male genre. Although there were exceptions like Ursula K Le Guin, there were… Read more Book Review: The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood →
In the last few years dystopian fiction has proved consistently popular. Titles like The Hunger Games have attracted huge fanbases as has the medium-crossing The Walking Dead. The genre of bleak… Read more Book Review: The Death of Grass by John Christopher →
Forgive me if I don’t take relationship advice from a dead teenager missing her vagina. The above, acidic riposte from Alana, winged fugitive from the planet Landfall, is typical of… Read more Reading Room Review: Saga – Volume One by Brian K. Vaughan (art by Fiona Staples) →
However great an invention the Kindle has proven to be, not all books seem quite at home on it. Reading Captive Universe, a 1969 science fiction novel by the prolific American author Harry… Read more Reading Room Review: Captive Universe by Harry Harrison →
First published in 1962, A Clockwork Orange, like Dracula, is a novel that most people know of without necessarily having read it. Alex, the stylish dressed adolescent thug with a taste for… Read more Reading Room Review: A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess →
Although quantum mechanics might not be a familiar subject to many, Schrödinger’s Cat has become a pop science icon. The famous feline, both alive and dead at the same time, was even used… Read more Reading Room Review: Schrodinger’s Cat Trilogy by Robert Anton Wilson →
In all the controversy surrounding The Da Vinci Code, it was never entirely clear whether Dan Brown was presenting the theories contained within the book as fact or fiction. The same… Read more Reading Room Review: Chariots of the Gods? by Erich Von Daniken →
When it was first published in 2003, Mark Haddon’s murder mystery The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time received rave reviews, plenty of awards and ended up… Read more Reading Room Review: The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time by Mark Haddon →
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