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One can make some assumptions about the stereotypical ‘high brow French literary novel’.   It will have art and artists.   It will ha...

Where o’ where, and how o’ how, I kept asking myself while reading Tom McCarthy’s 2015 Satin Island , is this novel going to tie itse...

There is a lot of us/them in the science fiction community, the common perception being that the literati draw a line in the sand betwee...

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