For years, Iain M Banks has done for sci-fi what George RR Martin did for...
In Iain M Banks's finest creation, the universe of the Culture, death is largely optional. It's an option most people take in the end: they take it after three or four centuries, after living on a...
View ArticleLying prostate on the floor in the Large Hardon Collider won't win you much...
I was listening to the Today programme on Monday morning, the day after Rafael Nadal had won his record-breaking eighth French Open title. Evan Davies described how in his ecstasy Nadal had collapsed...
View ArticleGeorge Orwell: really not all that
Oh I know. I am contractually obliged, as a journalist, to say that George Orwell was the greatest genius ever to have lived, and – more importantly – how he'd definitely agree with me on whatever my...
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