George Orwell and the “process of life”
From Dan Hitchens, Orwell and Contraception In all of Evelyn Waugh’s novels up to Brideshead Revisited, Orwell detected a consistent theme: Waugh’s “private ideal” of “a middle-sized country house.” In each…
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Alt Hist No More
Sadly, Alt Hist has published its final issue. Or rather, Mark Lord has understandably, given multiple demands, decided to step back from publishing it. Mark published two of my own stories in…
Helen Pearson, “The Life Project”, Review in TLS 29/03/17
Originally posted on A Medical Education:
I have a review of Helen Pearson’s “The Life Project” on the UK birth cohort studies in the current TLS. The full article is…
The Decline of Nature in Fiction, Film and Song
A fascinating post by Miles Richardson on a profound cultural shift. Interesting methodology, especially how the authors deal with the possibility that the effect they describe is simply due to…
Review of “The Lady of Situations”, Stephen Dedman, SF Site 2011
Original here. Another of my SF Site reviews of Ticonderoga Publications books after this and this. As with “Ghost Seas”, I recall greatly enjoying the book at the time, yet have forgotten most about…
A-Bomb Dream #2 – 2004 review of “100 Suns” by Michael Light in Nthposition.com
Nuclear angst was a staple for those who were old enough to be aware of the oft-trumpeted apocalyptic threat in the 1980s. In the 1990s it became a lot less…
A-Bomb Dream #1 – review of Shockwave: Countdown to Hiroshima by Stephen Walker – 2005, Nthposition
My more recent Management Secrets of the Manhattan Project post in The Dabbler was inspired by reading Leslie Groves’ “Now It Can Be Told”, but it was this book that inspired me…
Nthposition review of The Invisible Century: Einstein, Freud and the Search for Hidden Universes, 2004
One of the most memorable books I reviewed for nthposition. I have written before that time has modified some of my judgments, usually tempering enthusiasms a little. The years since have…
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