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I suspect that few boys have read the novels of Rider Haggard through the years and not dreamed that they would one day cross deserts, fig...

Before he became Karl Marx's friend and closest collaborator, Frederick Engels had already achieved more in his life than most philosop...

This is the first Alastair Reynolds work that I have read that isn't set in his future history set in the so called "Redemption Ark...

Crashlander brings together all the short stories that make up one of the more famous "arcs" in Science Fiction - the stories de...

The story of Agamemnon, the King who led the Greeks to the siege of Troy is one that deserves reading. Possibly of far greater interest and ...

This collection of short stories fills in some neat little gaps, and ties up a few loose threads from Alastair Reynolds' galaxy-wide fut...

When I reviewed CLR James' magnificent work of history, The Black Jacobians, I commented that someone had described it as the greatest ...

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...