Doris Lessing’s “Marriages Between Zones” and the world today
How many books you read recently have been recommended by someone close to you? I have discovered most of my recent sci-fi reads through my…
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“No Map Could Show Them” by Helen Mort
When he read my recent review on Fitzgerald’s Tender is the night, John Mills (photo below) said he would like to write a review piece himself. As…
The Culture messes up your mind – with kindness – in “Use of Weapons”
You ride the wind with Zakalwe – across galaxies. And you almost die with him every time. It’s difficult to keep count how…
How Fitzgerald’s second American dream ends in middle age crisis
Over dinner on offer at Cafe Rouge a few weeks ago, I was talking to my poet friend John Mills about the book I had…