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Books: The Way We Live Now
Posted by: stazjia on: October 14, 2008
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The Way We Live Now was written by Anthony Trollope and it reads a lot like the script for a modern TV soap. Set in the 1870s, this is one of Trollope’s lesser known novels (he’s most famous for the Barchester Chronicles and The Pallisters).
It’s a satire on Victorian society, particularly the middle to upper [...]
The House of Suns
Posted by: stazjia on: September 23, 2008
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I’ve just finished the latest novel by Alastair Reynolds, called The House of Suns. It was as good as all his other science fiction novels although it isn’t set in his Revelation Space Universe, like many of the others. Its big theme is morality and genocide, in particular as it relates to beings who are [...]
