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Just how civilizations have been altered by the climate is something that scientists, historians and archaeologists are happy to debate to ...

London 1938 - war hangs like a shadow over the heads of every inhabitant of the town. But London doesn't stop. In his beautiful preface ...

Subtitled “Imagination and Desire in a Northern Landscape” this is a strange tome indeed. The first chapters read very much like a somewha...

One of the hardest things about loving the novels by Arthur Ransome as a child, was not being able to sail, or even having access to a boat...

Whenever you wander around an ancient place, be it Roman, Egyptian or Greek. Or visit some long ruined castle or cave, it is impossible not ...

Chris Harman has been writing about the revolutionary transformation of society for over 40 years. Whether writing about the broad sweep of...

When I was about ten, I was given a copy of a collection of Science Fiction stories, that I still have today. The book can be credited with ...

Throughout history, on hundreds of occasions, various epidemics decimated the human populations. On many of these occasions the dead have re...

Most famous perhaps for his examination of Karl Marx's understanding of nature and capitalism, in his book “Marx’s Ecology”, this older ...

This is a remarkably strange SF&F novel. I should clarify that I mean this in a good way. The world of the Atrocity Archives is one wher...

The closest I have ever been to revolution was to be one of the “Mauer-Spechte” who helped, from the western side, chip away at the Berlin ...

Neal Asher is not a new writer on the SF&F scene - “Hilldiggers” his latest [2007] novel, is clearly the continuation of earlier works ...

Loath as I am to quote favourably anything from the odious Daily Mail, when reviewing Peter Linebaugh’s monumental work, they got it absolut...

The final installement of the Harry Potter series really needs little extra comment online from me, but as the rules of this blog require me...

"Archaeologists in Space" would be a fairly accurate title for this neat little science fiction novel. In Jack McDevitt's 199...

Quite early on in the reading of this book, it becomes clear that just how humans communicate, how language developed and how our minds wor...

A quick Google of the phrase "anti-capitalist science fiction" generates few hits. Perhaps this review will link Richard Morgan...

Victor Serge was certainly one of most able writers of 20th Century marxism. His life spanned some of the most important and exciting mome...

Those who argue that racism can be overcome, or ended are often confronted with the argument that racism or prejudice has always existed. Ma...

Just as it seems every politician, pop star, minor celebrity and even minor royal has started "offsetting" their round the world f...