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Gosh, this is good — and thrilling, disturbing and difficult to put down. Annie Bot is all told from the perspective of a robot owned by 34...

This is an exemplary bit of history, the author using his family’s extensive archive as the starting point for a no-holds-barred investigati...

"'There's worse things than being dead,' I had said." (p. 283) Prompted by a recent discussion on the radio of Octavia...

I’ve had this extraordinary book on the stack of books by my bed for a while. It won the Clarke Award last year, and the Pulitzer Prize f...

Thanks to lovely Abebooks , I'm now the proud owner of a battered paperback of Carl Sagan's Cosmos and a battered hardback (withou...

The Dr and I have spent Christmas eating too much, drinking even more, seeing some chums and enjoying – for the Dr at least – a busman's...

The Dr and I went to see Amazing Grace last night, the biopic of William Wilberforce. The performances are excellent, there are some good g...