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Stephen Hawking – science and fiction
In 1996, Stephen Hawking pointed out to his readers that one in 750 people on this planet owns a copy of A Brief History of Time. Sadly, this does not mean that millions of people have actually read...
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Review: ‘Slade House’
Whatever people were expecting from David Mitchell’s new book, it probably wasn’t a horror story. But with his new novel Slade House, that is precisely what he has delivered: a tight, no-nonsense,...
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Review: ‘The Man I Became’
If you can make small talk at drinks parties, does that mean that you are human? Likewise, if you’ve mastered the art of answering your mobile phone, can you claim to be a fully-fledged person? Or is...
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Review: ‘Carry On’
If I were to tell you that Carry On is the story of a boy wizard named Simon Snow, and his adventures at a secretive school for magicians, you would likely feel a strong sense of déjà vu. Carry On is...
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Review: ‘This Census-Taker’
Imagine a fairy tale written by Samuel Beckett. Dense, dark, and utterly mesmerising, This Census-Taker is in some ways typical of China Miéville. A leading light of the New Weird (think H.P. Lovecraft...
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Review: ‘Nutshell’
The anniversary of Shakespeare’s death, which has been marked ad infinitum this year, has been the inspiration for a vast array of modern cultural works which unpick and reimagine the Bard’s output....
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Review: ‘Zap’
And neither can be certain who Was that I whose mine was you. Robert Graves, ‘The Thieves’ Shortlisted for the Tibor & Jones Pageturner Prize in 2015, Svetlana Lavochkina’s debut novel, Zap...
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Review: ‘Brave New World’
Four Seven Two’s production of Brave New World begins and ends with a tree. In the beginning the tree is illuminated — the white silhouetted branches provide a visual centre to the set, and a canvas...
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Earlier this year, The Sun ran a story about a new edition of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, with the headline “FLAKENSTEINS: Snowflake students claim Frankenstein’s monster was ‘misunderstood’ — and is...
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Review: ‘This Is The End Of The Story’
‘Narrative cannot order experience, but only register something about the quality of experience.’ A tale of multi-layered, multi-faceted maturation, Jan Fortune’s This Is The End Of The Story...
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