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Highlights of what I read in 2024 because I didn’t get around to blogging about it.
Book 5 of Bernard Cornwell’s 11 book series The Warrior Chronicles (made for TV as The Last Kingdom), is The Burning Land. It is late in the reign of King…
Natives: Race and Class in the Ruins of Empire by Akala is about how the intersection of race and class affect black working class people living in Britain today. It…
Fire and Blood by G. R. R. Martin is the first of a two-part history of the Targaryen rulers of Westeros before the events of A Song of Ice and…
Earthwind by Robert Holdstock Published by Pan Science Fiction in 1978 Humans have colonised many planets and on one, Aeran, something strange has happened. The colonists have de-evolved into a…
The Impossible State: North Korea, Past and Future by Victor Cha Published by Vintage in 2013 The Impossible State is an examination of North Korea and whether it will ever…
Mindplayers by Pat Cadigan Published 1988 by Gollancz In a world where virtual reality is inside everyone’s head and you can choose to be someone else if you tire of…
Shake Hands with the Devil: The Failure of Humanity in Rwanda by Lt. Gen. Romeo Dallaire Published by Random House in 2003 I went to Rwanda last year on a…
Devices and Desires by K. J. Parker Published by Orbit in 2005 Sentenced to death for innovating in a country that tightly controls its industry, an engineer, Ziani Vaatzes, escapes…
The Secret State by Peter Hennessy Published by Penguin in 2002, updated in 2010 The Secret State is about Britain’s secret plans to respond to an attack on the UK…
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