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Roadside Picnic (Limited Edition)
Years after the aliens have been and gone, six landing sites, or Zones, around the world still contain the mysterious remnants of the visitation. Toxic wastelands of unimaginable terror, they hold dangerous artefacts and silvery threads of death that compel the straight-talking stalker, Redrick Shuhart, to keep coming back, his life dominated by the black-market trade in alien products.
Roadside Picnic
Years after the aliens have been and gone, six landing sites, or Zones, around the world still hold the mysterious remnants of the visitation. These include dangerous but valuable artefacts and, despite the unimaginable terror of these toxic wastelands, stalker Redrick Schuhart feels compelled to keep coming back, his life dominated by the illegal trade in alien products.
Today’s Reviews: Kneale and Orwell
The talents of two great British visionaries were harnessed for Rudolph Cartier’s 1954 production of Nineteen Eighty-Four If you’ve not seen it, then be prepared for two hours of intense drama, with Peter Cushing’s Winston Smith experiencing life in Airstrip One under Big Brother. Any resemblance to elements of life in 2022 is of course purely coincidental… Click here to read our full review, and for our other coverage, click here. Like this: Like Loading...
The Nightmare of Room 101
That first arresting sentence of Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four transports us immediately into a world that is real enough (the swirl of gritty dust, the acidic sickly gin, the smell of boiled cabbage) but is also alien and fantastic. Even now, in the age of the 24-hour clock, that number thirteen startles you, for no clock ever does physically strike thirteen, and its undercurrent of unluckiness adds to the sense of unease. It’s one of the best opening sentences I’ve ever read.
The Dispossessed
‘One of the greats … Not just a science-fiction writer; a literary icon’ Stephen King Wise, complex and thrilling, The Dispossessed is the sort of science fiction only Le Guin could have written; her abiding interest in anthropology and human nature summons worlds that inspire total belief from her readers, and she gives no easy answers to the many questions that the book poses.
A Life in Letters and Diaries
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A Clockwork Orange
‘Goodness is something chosen. When a man cannot choose he ceases to be a man.’ So says the prison chaplain, perhaps the only voice of reason in Anthony Burgess’s most celebrated work. Both a horrific satire of youth culture and an ingenious examination of social justice and government control, A Clockwork Orange has left an indelible, boot-shaped mark on the popular and literary culture of the late 20th century.
Dorian Lynskey’s guide to George Orwell’s books
Dorian Lynskey, author of The Ministry of Truth – a biography of George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four – delves into the career of the author of one of the most influential novels of the twentieth century in this guide to George Orwell’s books. George Orwell’s books Nineteen Eighty-Four and Animal Farm are his most well-known, with Nineteen Eighty-Four becoming a phenomenon when it was published in 1949.
The Dispossessed
‘One of the greats … Not just a science-fiction writer; a literary icon’ Stephen King Wise, complex and thrilling, The Dispossessed is the sort of science fiction only Le Guin could have written; her abiding interest in anthropology and human nature summons worlds that inspire total belief from her readers, and she gives no easy answers to the many questions that the book poses.
doublethink - Word of the Day
Doublethink lies at the very heart of Ingsoc, since the essential act of the Party is to use conscious deception while retaining the firmness of purpose that goes with complete honesty.
Slightly Foxed literary review
There are many definitions of what makes a great work of literature, but for my money a great book must do one thing above all else: it must create a world of its own, with its own unique atmosphere and moral universe. It must invent that world and transport you into it, and make you believe in it, from first sentence to last. Paradoxically you will inhabit it intimately as an autonomous world existing independently of you, the reader.
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