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And so this is Christmas, and what have you done…?
About to sign off for the festivities, and I wish everyone a splendid holiday in good company. There are a few things I particularly want to note my thankfulness for. Thank you to pretty much everyone...
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Hold onto your Holdstocks!
I have actually been sitting on a post for a while — basically my usual Clarkes shortlist writeup, except it now feels super weird to post it, even though it amounts to little more than a "these books...
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Random Assortment of Good Stuff
Or TFW you can't come up with a clever blog title (1). I have not done bloggery as I should, owing to other stuff to have been doing (25% through The Hawk and the (some other animal) as I write) and so...
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Many Recommendations of the Season
So I am the bear who walks into a bar, which is to say, apologies for the long pause. Mostly I have been finishing off the first draft of the Hyena and the Hawk*, book 3 of Echoes of the Fall (book 2...
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Silver Screen 2016 edition
Well crap, I did not get to see many films this year, owing to authorial and familial commitments, and so this is of a necessity a bit of a shotgun review. I did get to see a couple of Marvel films,...
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Long-delayed Book recommendation Post Title Here!
The problem with putting off a post recommending good books is that you keep reading more good books and it all gets on top of you. I have, therefore, absolutely let some cracking books slip me mind,...
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Clarke Award Shortlist 2017 Part 1 : Faith in the Future
This year I'm breaking the review up into three parts, because the shortlist, in my idiosyncratic perspective, seems to form some loose pairs, so first I give you: A Closed and Common Orbit – Becky...
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Clarke Award Shortlist 2017 Part 2 : The Evil That Men Do
Underground Railroad – Colson Whitehead After Atlas – Emma Newman (1) So what about books that have a rather less optimistic take on the world? As it turns out, the shortlist has those too, and these...
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Clarke Award Shortlist 2017 Part 3 : Sufficiently Advanced Mathematics
Occupy Me – Tricia Sullivan Ninefox Gambit – Yoon Ha Lee Sufficiently advanced mathematics being, of course, indistinguishable from magic, and that’s the thread I’m using to link these two books – very...
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Recommended Reading
First of all, out of a very strong field (see posts passim), Colson Whitehead took this year's Arthur C Clarke award for his Underground Railway, which is a thought-provoking and powerful read....
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