Re-releases from Andy Cohen + Eleanor Ellis + William Lee Ellis, Leon Russell with Mary Russell, and Johnny Winter
Unmatched for scope, scale and ambition
At times I was baffled, incredulous, irritated but I never stopped loving this milestone of 21st century science fiction for a single page, writes MAT COWARD
Jess Hong in 3 Body Problem, Netflix (2024)
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MIRANDA RICHMOND relishes the gloriously liberated art of Roy Oxlade, and traces his method back to the thinking of David Bomberg, his acknowledged teacher
MARTIN HALL examines the way the Roman orator took on different schools of philosophy
ALEX HALL is amused at the way the UFOs appear exactly where commercial interests, conspiracies, militarism and right-wing media overlap
ANDY HEDGECOCK is astonished by a portrait of contemporary Greece, complete with political protest, organised crime and people trafficking, told from the point of view of — wait for it — runaway poultry
MICHAL BONCZA and MARIA DUARTE review Eagles Of The Republic, The Balloonists, Star Wars: The Mandalorian and Grogu, and Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan: Ghost War
AT A TIME when the crumbling leadership of the fading West is doing all it can to bring about a shooting war with China, and the media instructs us daily to hate and fear everything from that country, it’s mildly surprising to see launching a major series based on one of this century’s biggest Chinese bestsellers.
I don’t imagine author Cixin Liu is shocked, though. Every chapter of his multiaward-winning trilogy demonstrates that he grew up in an educational system which understands that contradictions are an engine of human history. The law of unintended consequences is one of his principle plot devices.
Scientists in Three-Body Problem (the first volume) find a solution for the Fermi Paradox, the puzzle which asks “Since the universe must be full of life, where are all the aliens?”
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