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For all revolutionaries, being able to imagine a future society is very important. This isn't simply because we need to have something t...

There is a narrow sub-genre of Science Fiction that I love - archaeologists in space I like to know it as - this is the type of Science Fict...

The aftermath of the Second World War brought a plethora of memoirs of wartime experiences. Popular amongst these where books about the exp...

Unusually for an MP, or indeed a local government councillor, Phil Piratin didn’t believe that political change came from Town Halls or even...

As with the other books in the " Wonders of the World " series, Simon Goldhill concentrates on a single building from history, and...

Volume two of Stephen King's seven part "Dark Tower" series is a very different beast to volume one. This is a good thing, as ...

The idea that the humble planet could change the course of Earth's geological history is difficult to imagine. That plants have changed ...

There are few classic works of science fiction written in the 1960s that survive so well into modern times as “The Stars My Destination”. Th...

Few readers can have failed to have heard the basic tenets of Gulliver's Travels. Written in the 1700s, it follows the voyages of Lemue...

Lester Brown's book on climate change is unlike many of the myriad of books that have been produced about the subject. His book is gear...

Unusually for a classical historian, Mary Beard seems to be adept at bringing to life complex periods of history. Her humourous and immensel...

To live through a revolution is the dream of every revolutionary. To experience the overthrow of capitalism and the first steps down the ro...

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 ...