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I really enjoyed this – but I should add that I am a fan of his Mars trilogy, and of his ecological novels too (he manages to make cycling sound like fun – which is an achievement, in my book). I was made up to find he’d written another book in the ‘Mars’ milieu (this one – and since then another ‘the Martians’ which catches us up with how terraforming Mars and living in harmony with each other is going). If you relish learning about the ways people live after we’ve made the move into space, then you will love this book. If you want to know about the planet Mercury, then you will love it. If you want a lot to happen, not a whole lot does. There is a long walk and a lot of whistling. There are maleficent pebbles. There is galactic politics. Robinson does, however, continually review what it is to be human and what the human condition could become. Like all his work, it is immensely thought-provoking, even if you don’t believe that this is the way humanity will develop. 2312 has confirmed my opinion that Kim Stanley Robinson is the finest writer of SF working today.
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In December 2017 I published my fourth book – ‘Wonders will never cease’. It’s a satirical campus novel set in the fictional Ariel University in 1985. If you enjoyed Tom Sharpe’s Porterhouse novels, Willy Russell’s ‘Educating Rita’, David Lodge’s campus novels or Malcolm Bradbury’s ‘The History Man’ back in the day, you may enjoy revisiting the ivory towers of 1980s’ academe thirty years on. See what you think.
“It is December, 1985. The year is winding gently towards its close until Fergus Girvan, a Classicist at Ariel University, finds his research has been stolen by the man who is also seeking to steal his daughter. But which man is, actually, the more unscrupulous of the two? And is there hope for either of them?”
In the autumn of 2015 I published a volume of short fiction: 'Ice Cold Passion and other stories'. I am also the author of novella 'Little Mouse', a shortish piece of historical fiction which I published in 2014 and, a sequel to it, 'Is death really necessary?', my eco thriller set in the near future and which, confusingly, I published in 2009.
All the books are available from all good online bookshops and FeedARead on paper, and as e-books on Kindle.
On a semi-regular basis, and about a month after the event, I post here reviews which I do for Big Al & Pals, the premier reviewer of indie books, based in the States. My interests tend to thrillers, SF, magic realism and other quirky stuff.
On this blog are also posted the reviews I did for Leighton Buzzard Music Club over some five years up to the end of 2015. LBMC present annual seasons of eight monthly chamber music concerts at the Library Theatre in Leighton Buzzard, Bucks. They select young musicians just beginning to make their name - and the concerts are usually magnificent. I was very proud to be associated with them.
I review other music, books, theatre and exhibitions which I've particularly enjoyed.
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