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Latest in my Scottish SFF blog series: Naomi Mitchison's Travel Light (1952) and When the Bough Breaks (1924).
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Latest in my series of blogposts on Ken MacLeod's fiction. Here, I look in detail at the Engines of Light trilogy, a key work. Also some notes on the Dialectic, Historical Materialism, and the Scottish Programme.
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'Once upon a time, over the gravity well and far away, there was a magical land where they had no kings, no laws, no money and no property, but where everybody lived like a prince, was very well-behaved and lacked for nothing.'
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James Leslie Mitchell (Lewis Grassic Gibbon), Gay Hunter (1934) - a landmark work of Scottish science fiction
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This a review I wrote ten years ago but the novel remains a contemporary classic: Michel Faber, The Book of Strange New Things (2014).
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As the WorldCon ticks ever closer, here are my thoughts on a classic Scottish SF novel from the 1930s, Three Go Back by James Leslie Mitchell (aka Lewis Grassic Gibbon).
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Ken MacLeod is one of the Guests of Honour for the Glasgow Worldcon so I'm rereading and blogging on his novels. Here are my thoughts on Intrusion (2012) which I think is his best novel and one of the best British novels of the 21C.
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Continuing my series of blogposts on Scottish SFF and the novels of Ken MacLeod in particular, here are my thoughts on The Corporation Wars.
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