Monthly Archives: November 2006

Death-Penalty Blues

This Week, BBC1’s late-night political discussion programme, had a piece last night from Colonel Tim Collins, who used to be “Britain’s most senior soldier in Iraq”. He was saying that Saddam Hussein should hang as soon as possible, and that we should have the death penalty in Britain.
I won’t reiterate the many general arguments [...]

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Book Notes 15: Appleseed, by John Clute

This is a very, very strange book. It’s strange in the spacefaring future it describes, but it’s probably even stranger linguistically.
I used to read John Clute’s book reviews in Interzone, years ago, when he reviewed there regularly1, so linguistic strangeness was exactly what I expected when I picked this up.
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Book Notes 14: Viriconium, by M John Harrison

This is a reissue in the Fantasy Masterworks series, of all – or nearly all – of Harrison’s ‘Viriconium’ stories. Four of the collected works are novels (though short ones) and the rest short stories. I had read only one of them before, the last-written and last presented here: ‘A Young Man’s Journey [...]

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