Ministry of Time by Kaliane Bradley This funny sci-fi tale sparkles with Pratchett-esque brilliance. A Home Office department, with a …
The Times of Malthus
The prequel to 2089 is finally here… published on 20th April 2023. Here’s what you need to know: 2020s life …
To Have and Have Not
Book review – To Have and Have Not by Ernest Hemingway As a thirsty and aspiring fiction writer, you’ve got …
Main Street to Nowhere
Book review – Main Street by Sinclair Lewis I was attracted to reading Sinclair Lewis’s Main Street when I discovered …
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 …
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 …
What are people doing about what’s wrong with the world?
Clearly, from these Blog of the Future posts, it would seem that nobody is doing anything terribly successful to reverse, …
What is wrong with the world?
Well, where do I start?! Are we ‘going to Hell in a handcart’? In the last edition of this blog …
How do we know what is wrong with the world?
Trump’s August 2017 tweets of “Fire and fury”, “locked and loaded” lead me to think we are now at war …
Is there something wrong with the world?
Simply put, I think there is. Something wrong in the world that is. In my nearly 50 years, I have …