Dancing on Glass

   The near future is grim: climate change has brought floods and now a heavy airless heat. Victor had come back from yet another war inju...

     In Autumn 2010 Tricia Sullivan noted that only one woman won the Clarke award in the noughties, compared with 5 in its ...

   I've read the first two books on the BSFA shortlist. Ancillary Justice is a rather good, exciting novel, full of ideas. The writing ...

    Just a place to remind myself of the Bollywood films I've seen so far. Still got about 40 more on DVD to watch including some of the...

    The short lists for the 2014 BSFA awards are out. The shortlist for best novel is exciting: Best Novel God’s War by Kamero...

   My first encounter with Iranian film was Samira Makhmalbaf’s Blackboards, encouraged presumably by the reviews in the Guardian, at the...