literature

  • The Arthur C. Clarke Awards short list, continued

    The novels short-listed for this major speculative fiction award include: In my last post, I reviewed the novels by Armfield and Bradley. This post reviews the novels by Green and Woolf. Extremophile, Ian Green (2024, Head of Zeus/Bloomsbury) What an… Continue reading

  • Three recent literary dystopian novels

    A dystopian novel gives a cautionary and prophetic glimpse into the disastrous place the ordinary world is in danger of becoming. Often these literary glimpses are grim, because the circumstances these novels critique are grim. Some dystopian novels might be… Continue reading