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Adam Roberts is easily the most interesting active science fiction author. He is the 21st century's equivalent of John Brunner – endlessly innovative. Though Roberts is more intellectual in style and sophisticated in approach than Brunner was, both have come up with a mix of novels of brilliance and......more

I pretty much inhaled The This, as it playfully tweaked a number of my interests, playfully being the core word. A big picture absolute reincarnation treatise mixed with a much more modern seeming social media satire, there are also chapters that visit a number of future war scenarios. It possibly o......more

Review first posted at: [URL not allowed] The This is the hot new social network. A sort of hands free Twitter, they say. All you need is an implant in the roof of your mouth, the world will never be the same again. As always with Adam Roberts’ books, there’s a lot to unpick and......more

This is another offering with a rather chatty blurb that you’d do well to avoid as it gives away far too much of the story. Although it also manages to be very misleading, because it concentrates on the plot, rather than the narrative engine of the book which isn’t the storyline. Most novels provide......more