Gavin Featherstone has been an international hockey coach. A recent inheritance led him on an intriguing journey investigating family histories …
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2089
2nd edition published 1st November 2020! The year is 2089, and technologists have developed a system for remotely tapping …
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Competitions
Beat back 2021 – Win a paperback! To bring some cheer to the struggle that is 2020, I’m offering a …
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Main Street to Nowhere
Book review – Main Street by Sinclair Lewis I was attracted to reading Sinclair Lewis’s Main Street when I discovered …
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None so blind
Review of Blindness by Jose Saramago This story starts out really well, with the basic premise of the whole population …
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Is it possible to bug someone’s brain?
In the novel 2089, the Orwellian features of the surveillance society are made possible by bugging the brain of everyone …
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How will climate change affect the changing social order?
Thinking about how a new society may develop after a globally apocalyptic catastrophe, how will the changing climate influence how …
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What should the new social order be?
In the first few editions of this blog, I’ve painted a pretty bleak picture of the difficulties facing people in …