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		<title>The Sparrow by Mary Doria Russell</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Nov 2011 18:59:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s a moment in The Sparrow which, for me, seems to express the idea at the heart of the book. A Jesuit priest Emilio Sandoz is presented with an account by his rescuers, that accuses him of acts of prostitution, and of murder on an alien planet during a disastrous first contact mission. He is [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=futurewired.wordpress.com&#038;blog=22883840&#038;post=80&#038;subd=futurewired&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Dune (1984)</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Nov 2011 18:17:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Well it&#8217;s been a little while since I&#8217;ve written anything for this blog, a new job and new shift patterns meant that finding the time to do anything even remotely constructive was getting a bit difficult. I have however been keeping up with my reading so I&#8217;ve got a couple of reviews on the back [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=futurewired.wordpress.com&#038;blog=22883840&#038;post=77&#038;subd=futurewired&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>We Who Are About To&#8230; By Joanna Russ</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 24 Jul 2011 17:25:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Joanna Russ&#8217; We Who Are About To&#8230; is a strange, brief and and almost unrelentingly bleak book. It is a harsh account of an interstellar shipwreck in an unfriendly universe, a feminist reworking of the &#8216;new Adam and Eve&#8217; trope associated with stories of that kind, but ultimately much of the book is an uncompromising [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=futurewired.wordpress.com&#038;blog=22883840&#038;post=73&#038;subd=futurewired&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Literary and Genre Fiction: Cloud Atlas and Never Let Me Go</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 10 Jul 2011 17:26:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[One thing I&#8217;m really interested in exploring on this blog is the overlap between genre fiction and what is commonly termed &#8216;literary&#8217; fiction. I&#8217;ve mentioned before the Bruce Sterling coined phrase &#8216;slipstream&#8217;, referring to a sort of literary feeling of strangeness, of slight dissonance with what we would consider recognisable reality in fiction. Another grouping [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=futurewired.wordpress.com&#038;blog=22883840&#038;post=70&#038;subd=futurewired&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Gender Bias and Reading Lists: A Dose of Self-Criticism</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Jun 2011 11:38:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Recently I&#8217;ve read a number of articles suggesting latent sexism when it comes to discussing science fiction, fantasy and genre fiction in general. There was a poll in the Guardian of the best sf novels and out of the 500 books mentioned, someone worked out that only 18 were written by women. There was also [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=futurewired.wordpress.com&#038;blog=22883840&#038;post=66&#038;subd=futurewired&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Where&#8217;s My Jetpack? By Daniel H Wilson and Physics of the Impossible by Michio Kaku</title>
		<link>http://futurewired.wordpress.com/2011/06/28/wheres-my-jetpack-by-daniel-h-wilson-and-physics-of-the-impossible-by-michio-kaku/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Jun 2011 11:36:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8216;Underpromise but Overdeliver&#8217; is a mantra often heard in the customer service industry, wherein I am currently employed. Viewing the world through the prism of science fiction you could be forgiven for thinking that the future as it appears so far doesn&#8217;t quite seem to deliver the goods. 2001 has come and gone and there&#8217;s [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=futurewired.wordpress.com&#038;blog=22883840&#038;post=61&#038;subd=futurewired&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Light</title>
		<link>http://futurewired.wordpress.com/2011/06/19/light/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Jun 2011 13:22:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Light by M John Harrison is a dark, complex book, spattered with sex, violence, and esoteric interpretations of quantum mechanics, all delivered in a cold, detached style of prose that somehow manages to be both compelling and ultimately slightly unsatisfying. &#160; There are three main strands to the book, following three characters, one in the [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=futurewired.wordpress.com&#038;blog=22883840&#038;post=55&#038;subd=futurewired&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Kraken Wakes</title>
		<link>http://futurewired.wordpress.com/2011/06/10/the-kraken-wakes/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Jun 2011 11:52:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[John Wyndham has often been depicted as the prime purveyor of so called &#8216;cosy catastrophe&#8217; fiction, in which following an apocalyptic disaster a small group of usually middle class survivors rebuild civilisation according to their values. His most famous book, the Day of the Triffids is perhaps closest to this formula, in which different groups [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=futurewired.wordpress.com&#038;blog=22883840&#038;post=51&#038;subd=futurewired&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Our Tragic Universe</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 May 2011 15:02:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As promised yesterday I&#8217;m going to continue on with a look at one of Scarlett Thomas&#8217; other novels, Our Tragic Universe. Our Tragic Universe is in some ways a very different book from The End of Mr Y. It has fewer fantastic elements, those that do appear are more ambiguous and can be equally ascribed [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=futurewired.wordpress.com&#038;blog=22883840&#038;post=46&#038;subd=futurewired&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The End of Mr Y</title>
		<link>http://futurewired.wordpress.com/2011/05/23/the-end-of-mr-y/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 May 2011 12:01:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Scarlett Thomas has been one of my favourite authors from pretty much the moment I first picked up her 2006 novel The End of Mr Y. Since then I&#8217;ve read PopCo and her latest, Our Tragic Universe and I&#8217;m trying to track down some more of her back catalogue, including the trio of detective novels [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=futurewired.wordpress.com&#038;blog=22883840&#038;post=43&#038;subd=futurewired&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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