I liked Julia Armfield‘s Salt Slow, a New Weird short stories book, a lot. So I looked forward to reading her new novel Our Wives Under the Sea: Body horror, deep sea sciency mystery and a lesbian love story – how could I resist? I wasn’t disappointed. Those who expect your average YA story might […]
A book about language, understanding, about individuals and collectives, about colonialisation, how hierarchies rise and fall, about a living city. It took me a bit to get into Embassytown by China Mieville but then I didn’t want it to end.
I have finished Michael Crichton’s Prey last night. I had picked it up because I wanted to read at least one nanobots sci-fi before they enter our everyday lives. With headlines like “Nanobots Can Now Enter Human Cell With Help Of Sound Waves, Offering Hope For Guided Missile Attacks On Cancer” or “Behold The First […]