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In the Chinks of the World Machine
In the Chinks of the World Machine provides a committed but very readable picture of the achievements of serious science fiction by women at the time of its publication in 1988. Sarah Lefanu was in a privileged position to write … Continue reading
Ian Fleming’s The Spy Who Loved Me
The Spy Who Loved Me was the only one of Ian Fleming’s James Bond novels that I didn’t reread the second time round, in my early thirties. The reason I didn’t was probably the same reason the critics had panned … Continue reading
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Tagged Ian Fleming, James Bond, The Spy Who Loved Me, Vivienne Michel
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Hugh Lupton’s The Ballad of John Clare
Among the leading figures of the British storytelling revival, Hugh Lupton is one very worthy of ecocritical attention. Shows such as On Common Ground (performed with Chris Wood) and The Liberty Tree (performed with Nick Hennessey) passionately engage with the … Continue reading
Posted in Fiction, Politics, Storytelling
Tagged commons, enclosure, Hugh Lupton, John Clare, Mary Joyce, On Common Ground, The Ballad of John Clare
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The Dedalus Book of Greek Fantasy
Fantasy as a dedicated genre didn’t really exist in Greece till very recently. Many of the stories gathered in The Dedalus Book of Greek Fantasy, dating from the 19th century to the turn of the 21st, are by mainstream literary … Continue reading
Posted in fantasy, Fiction
Tagged Aris Sfakianakis, David Connolly, fantasy, Greek fantasy, Makis Panorios, surrealism, Tassos Leivaditis
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Myths, Genres, and Forms in Northrop Frye’s Anatomy of Criticism
Northrop Frye’s Anatomy of Criticism is a landmark of literary criticism to which I found my way via its influence on the Tolkien scholarship of Tom Shippey and Margaret Anne Doody’s superb book The True Story of the Novel. Frye’s … Continue reading
Posted in Fiction, Literary criticism
Tagged Anatomy of Criticism, Deep Time, Fiction, forms, genres, myths, Northrop Shippey, The Lord of the Rings, Ulysses
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David Mitchell’s The Bone Clocks
I was keen to read David Mitchell’s new novel because I loved Cloud Atlas. Like that masterpiece, The Bone Clocks comprises six novella-length sections each narrated by a different character in a different time period. But these narratives are closer … Continue reading
Posted in fantasy, Fiction, science fiction
Tagged Cloud Atlas, David Mitchell, novel, pastiche, The Bone Clocks
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Greg Bear’s Queen of Angels
My first encounter with Greg Bear’s fiction was the superb Moving Mars, at a time when I was reading everything I could find about the planet Mars. Queen of Angels, though set mainly on Earth, is considered to be part … Continue reading
Posted in Fiction, science fiction
Tagged consciousness, Greg Bear, mind-body problem, nano-technology, Queen of Angels
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