As a long time lover of Private Eye and QI, it came a bit out of left field to hear …
The Mind’s Eye
This novel is the sequel to 2089. Here’s the full blurb: Everything anyone sees and hears is recorded and available …
2089
2nd edition published 1st November 2020! The year is 2089, and technologists have developed a system for remotely tapping …
Build The Wall!
John Lanchester’s Booker Prize longlisted novel drags us around a dismal post-apocalyptic future through the eyes of Kavanagh. As a …
The Disappeared
Book review Amy Lord’s debut strikes a grey chord envisaging a possible future London, nay, an alternate, current London, governed …
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 …
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 …
How many civil wars make an apocalypse?
As I write, there are out-and-out civil wars in umpteen countries, violent conflicts of other descriptions (violent independence or insurgency …
How can we improve on the current political systems?
In the last edition of this blog I suggested that small sized communities are the way forward for creating happy …
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 …