Non-Fiction
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THE ILLUMINATED MAN: LIFE, DEATH AND THE WORLDS OF J. G. BALLARD by Christopher Priest and Nina Allan (BOOK REVIEW)
“But for Balalrd it held a deeper meaning, a sense that reality was itself a stage set that could be dismantled at any moment. No matter ... -
Writing The Future: Essays on Crafting Science Fiction (2023) edited by Dan Coxon and Richard V. Hirst (BOOK REVIEW)
“Whatever our very real future might hold, one thing is certain: so long as there are humans, the fire of the imagination will not go out, ... -
WISH I WAS HERE by M. John Harrison (BOOK REVIEW)
“Massive amounts of what happens to you will happen via invisible and/or unparsable causal chains. Much of life, you will never know what happened to you ... -
THE HOTHOUSE BY THE EAST RIVER by Muriel Spark (BOOK REVIEW)
“There isn’t any war and peace any more, no good and evil, no communism, no capitalism, no fascism. There’s one area of conflict left and that’s ... -
The Disappearance of Josef Mengele by Olivier Guez (BOOK REVIEW)
“This is the story of an unscrupulous man with a small, hard soul struck down by a poisonous and deadly ideology that spread through a society ... -
ART AND IDEAS IN THE NOVELS OF CHINA MIEVILLE by Carl Freedman – THE UNSEEN ACADEMIC
This is an occasional series of posts drawing on my excursion into the academic side of creative writing. Having taken a career break from secondary schooling ... -
Worldbuilding for Fantasy Fans and Authors by M.D. Presley – Book Review
Self-Published Genre: Non-fiction Format: Kindle e-book Copy: Provided by the author for review The great works of fantasy draw us back in, time and again. Not ... -
Here Be No Dragons: 4 Non-Fiction Books to read in 2019
It’s that time again! What time, you ask. That time when I show up and spout off on books that don’t involve magic. I know, I ... -
The Stephen King Project – Danse Macabre (1981)
About the project I will be reading all of Stephen King’s books in order of publication (with the exception of The Dark Tower series which I ... -
Here Be No Dragons: The Score So Far…
If you remember (obviously you remember), way back in January I wrote about five non-fiction books I wanted to read in 2018. I completed my Goodreads ...
