These are the first two books of Pullman’s second trilogy about Lyra, the mysterious substance called ‘Dust’ and the attempts of the powerful and sinister Magisterium to suppress all knowledge of it. The third book hasn’t yet been published. The … Continue reading →
Another ripping success for Hutchinson with this his second, and overall the third “book of the Aftermath” (if this doesn’t make sense, see the footnote here). This time the setting is mostly Oxford, but of course it’s not an Oxford … Continue reading →
This is the second book in the collaboration between Dave Hutchinson and Adam Roberts which started with Hutchinson’s ‘Shelter’. The third title, Hutchinson’s ‘Sanctuary’ has just been published; I have not yet received my copy. I have nothing original to … Continue reading →
In ‘Shelter’, written after completion and publication of the ‘Fractured Europe‘ novels and with the strapline ‘Book One of the Aftermath’, Hutchinson returns to the setting of a post-apocalyptic world. However in this one there is no time distortion, there … Continue reading →
If like me you enjoyed Dave Hutchinson’s “Fractured Europe” series (links to my reviews are in the sidebar – or scroll all the way down if you’re reading this on your phone) you will like ‘Cold Water’. It’s set in … Continue reading →
Intriguing, imaginative, inventive, impressive. Claire North’s character Harry August and his fellow kalachakra live Groundhog lives rather than Groundhog Days. Unlike we normal ‘linear’ folk their lives are both sequential and repetitive in time. Like the Ouroboros continually swallowing its … Continue reading →
So the fifth-richest man in the world has bought up an entire county in Iowa, rebuilt a small town, recruited top scientists, and is building the world’s most powerful supercollider – one that will dwarf the LHC at CERN. What … Continue reading →
So here it is, the fourth and presumably final book in Dave Hutchinson’s ‘Fractured Europe’ series. Does he pull off the challenge of a coherent and satisfactory resolution to the complex puzzle he’s constructed in the first three? Short answer; … Continue reading →
This is one of those must-read books which I somehow never got round to until now. It’s one of Bradbury’s early works, written in 1953 under the shadow of The Bomb and the beginnings of the Cold War; it has … Continue reading →
The best science fiction is more than just whizz-bang intergalactic travel and weird aliens. It explores the implications of real aspects of human knowledge and poses interesting questions about them. This is what Dave Hutchinson does in “Acadie”, though I … Continue reading →