Saturday, February 15, 2014

Sherri S. Tepper, Grass (1989) SFMW 48

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The complex ecology and well-conceptualised social arrangements of Sheri S. Tepper's Grass  (1989) invite comparison to Frank Herbert...
Saturday, October 19, 2013

Gene Wolfe, The Fifth Head Of Cerberus (1972) SFMW 8

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Gene Wolfe's 1972 sequence of three linked novellas ('The Fifth Head of Cerberus', '"A Story," by John V. Marsc...
Sunday, July 21, 2013

New stuff, and lots of it

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As I'm already an unfeasibly long distance away from ever catching up with Orion's publication schedule, I can only celebrate rat...

Philip K. Dick, Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep? (1968) SFMW 4

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“I notice you’ve never had any hesitation as to spending the bounty money I bring home on whatever momentarily attracts your attention.” ...
Monday, April 01, 2013

Colin Greenland, Take Back Plenty (1990)

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'I would not shake my credit in telling an improbable truth, however indisputable in itself' (Lawrence Sterne, The Life & Opi...

Philip K. Dick, Dr. Bloodmoney (1965) SFMW 32

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"I'll have a true factory in the old sense, the pre-war sense." "'The pre-war sense,'" she echoed. ...
Sunday, February 10, 2013

Robert Holdstock, Mythago Wood (1984)

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'Was it possible that the stories could survive that long? Tales of the glaciers, and the new forests, and the advance of human soc...
Monday, December 31, 2012

Russell Hoban, Riddley Walker (1980)

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On one level, Russell Hoban's Riddley Walker is a straightfoward, linearly-plotted tale of a young adult's experiences in a post...
Friday, December 14, 2012

Year-end update

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As usual, I find myself apologising for the slow progress I've made in advancing this project during 2012. Posts have been infrequent...

Tim Powers, The Anubis Gates (1983) FMW 47

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"One of these time gaps is just outside Kensington, five miles from the Strand, on the evening of the first of September, 1810. And ...