Reviews and Comments

Given the age of this story, it's surprising just how relevant E.M. Forster's dystopia remains.

42 years later and The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is still as absurdly funny, insanely perceptive and shockingly relevant as ever.



I still love the babel fish!

Surprisingly slow to get started but once it does, The Devil's Nebula makes for a reasonably engaging read.

If someone is completely disassembled, and then perfectly reassembled with all (or most) of the same memories, are they the same person?



Mickey7 isn't the first book to try these sorts of questions, but it does handle them in an entertaining and very accesible manner. I would have liked a bit more depth but for what it is, this book is an enjoyable thriller with several nods to some interesting concepts.

Not as powerful as The Expert System's Brother, but still a very effective -- and often bizarre -- consideration of what it means to be human, and what we do to survive.

That was... not great. The pacing of this novel is incredibly slow and this is not helped by the fact that the main characters continue to be stubbornly naive to the point of stupidity.



Admittedly, it does pick up a bit in last few chapters, but nowhere near enough to leave me in any rush whatsoever to start ploughing through the next book in the series.

An excellent overview of the first five years of the Brexit process.



While there's nothing new in here, of course, the book does underline the way in which the delusional and belligerently ignorant approach of Brexiters had managed to take a bad decision and make things so much worse.

This is very much a book of two parts. The second part, which deals with a dystopian future history makes for an interesting, and often surprisingly prescient, future history.



However, London spends the first half of the book detailing his opinions and this does get more than a little preachy at times.