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<p>In the Chinks of the World Machine provides a committed but very readable picture of the achievements of serious science fiction by women at the time of its publication in 1988. Sarah Lefanu was in a privileged position to write &hellip; <a href="https://nansondeeptime.wordpress.com/2018/08/22/in-the-chinks-of-the-world-machine/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&rarr;</span></a></p>

<p>The Spy Who Loved Me was the only one of Ian Fleming’s James Bond novels that I didn’t reread the second time round, in my early thirties. The reason I didn’t was probably the same reason the critics had panned &hellip; <a href="https://nansondeeptime.wordpress.com/2018/01/17/ian-flemings-the-spy-who-loved-me/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&rarr;</span></a></p>

<p>Among the leading figures of the British storytelling revival, Hugh Lupton is one very worthy of ecocritical attention. Shows such as On Common Ground (performed with Chris Wood) and The Liberty Tree (performed with Nick Hennessey) passionately engage with the &hellip; <a href="https://nansondeeptime.wordpress.com/2017/09/09/the-ballad-of-john-clare/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&rarr;</span></a></p>

<p>Fantasy as a dedicated genre didn’t really exist in Greece till very recently. Many of the stories gathered in The Dedalus Book of Greek Fantasy, dating from the 19th century to the turn of the 21st, are by mainstream literary &hellip; <a href="https://nansondeeptime.wordpress.com/2017/07/31/the-dedalus-book-of-greek-fantasy/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&rarr;</span></a></p>

<p>Northrop Frye’s Anatomy of Criticism is a landmark of literary criticism to which I found my way via its influence on the Tolkien scholarship of Tom Shippey and Margaret Anne Doody’s superb book The True Story of the Novel. Frye’s &hellip; <a href="https://nansondeeptime.wordpress.com/2017/07/23/myths-genres-and-forms-in-northrop-fryes-anatomy-of-criticism/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&rarr;</span></a></p>

<p>I was keen to read David Mitchell’s new novel because I loved Cloud Atlas. Like that masterpiece, The Bone Clocks comprises six novella-length sections each narrated by a different character in a different time period. But these narratives are closer &hellip; <a href="https://nansondeeptime.wordpress.com/2017/07/02/david-mitchells-the-bone-clocks/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&rarr;</span></a></p>

<p>My first encounter with Greg Bear’s fiction was the superb Moving Mars, at a time when I was reading everything I could find about the planet Mars. Queen of Angels, though set mainly on Earth, is considered to be part &hellip; <a href="https://nansondeeptime.wordpress.com/2017/05/04/greg-bears-queen-of-angels/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&rarr;</span></a></p>

<p>Having tackled the environmental politics of Mars and Antarctica, Kim Stanley Robinson took on the challenge of global warming. Forty Signs of Rain is the first instalment of a trilogy and should not be judged as a stand-alone novel. Most of it &hellip; <a href="https://nansondeeptime.wordpress.com/2017/04/27/forty-signs-of-rain/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&rarr;</span></a></p>

<p>Do you remember, if you’re old enough, the beautiful painted illustrations on the covers of fantasy and science fantasy novels in the 1980s? Each would depict a scene capturing both a moment in the story and the essence of the &hellip; <a href="https://nansondeeptime.wordpress.com/2017/04/21/the-light-of-eden/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&rarr;</span></a></p>

<p>The 1000-page bulk of Austin Tappan Wright’s Islandia had sat intimidatingly on the shelf since I acquired it. Only in the period of forced leisure after an operation did I get round to reading it. Long hours in bed gave &hellip; <a href="https://nansondeeptime.wordpress.com/2017/03/27/utopia-without-fascism/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&rarr;</span></a></p>

<p>You know that feeling of discovering an author you’ve never read before who really hits your buttons, so you want to seek out everything they wrote? It doesn’t happen to me as much as it used to, my taste having &hellip; <a href="https://nansondeeptime.wordpress.com/2017/03/11/forbidden-ecstasy/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&rarr;</span></a></p>

<p>I first heard about Jean Hegland’s novel Into the Forest in an Interzone review by David Pringle in 1998, two years after the book was published. Hegland is a West Coast author and Pringle positioned her novel in a subgenre &hellip; <a href="https://nansondeeptime.wordpress.com/2017/01/06/jean-heglands-into-the-forest/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&rarr;</span></a></p>

<p>In his review (for Vector) of the The Water Knife by Paul Bacigalupi, Anthony Nanson expressed the concern that speculative fiction dealing with the threats pose… Source: Considering speculative fiction</p>

<p>This year’s visit to New Caledonia got me musing whether I should change the name of my blog – to signal a broadening of scope that would justify my writing here about my travels. ‘Deep Time, Exotic Excursions’ is what &hellip; <a href="https://nansondeeptime.wordpress.com/2016/12/13/deep-time-exotic-excursions/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&rarr;</span></a></p>

<p>Originally posted on <a href="https://thebardicacademic.wordpress.com/2016/02/28/the-puzzle-of-the-wood/">Dr Kevan Manwaring </a>: <br />? This was the late, great novelist Robert Holdstock’s flash of genius &#8211; one that came to him in a writing workshop in Milford-on-Sea in 1979, which resulted in an award-winning short story (1981),&hellip;</p>