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In a shocking and shameful dereliction of duty and a betrayal of everything that this blog stands for, I note that we have only done one hal...

Matter by Iain M Banks. Here on Earth we take the whole planet occupation thing for granted. Simply evolve over a series of aeons from s...

Another day, another gratifyingly early fulfilment of a New Year's resolution, this one being to really step up the brutal and  relentle...

Sorry to do a follow-up to a follow-up , but I remember how I happened across the Spurn story now: I was fiddling with an Ordnance Survey ...

Here's a bit of a round-up of some bits and bobs that probably don't merit a blog post of their own: I was going to make the poi...

It's always nice to at least make a start on fulfilling a New Year's resolution early doors, less than a week after New Year's D...

Here's a couple of recent news (or, more accurately, "news") stories which revisit some stuff featured a few years back right ...

Stick by Elmore Leonard. Ernest Stickley jr. is a little bit whooaaahh , a little bit wheeeyyy , a bit tasty, a bit dodgy. He's a g...

The Human Stain by Philip Roth. Coleman Silk is an ex-professor of classics and former dean of faculty at a New England university. Des...

A couple of examples, as if further proof were necessary, that Electric Halibut surfs the very bleeding edge of the Zeitgeist , protected on...

One thing I noticed while sitting around in a pair of crusty urine-soaked underpants morosely swigging neat whisky out of the bottle the ot...

One thing I forgot to mention in the last book review was that Barefoot In The Head is full of allusions to the mystical writings and teac...

Barefoot In The Head by Brian Aldiss. It's the late 20th century, and there's been a war. So far so standardly post-apocalyptica...

I'll tell you what fascinates me about things like the new Nick Knowles album (yes, it's really a thing, it's happening , and t...