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		<title>Triptych</title>
		<link>http://tomcatintheredroom.com/2013/05/04/triptych/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 May 2013 22:25:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tomcat</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Brian Aldiss]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The idea of a ‘generation ship’ had been kicking around in both scientific non-fiction and SF for quite a few years by 1958, when Brian Aldiss wrote the first novel-length treatment of the concept.  Non-Stop concerns itself with several scavenging, semi-primitive tribes who inhabit a primordial jungle; the obvious mid-novel revelation being that these tribesmen [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=tomcatintheredroom.com&#038;blog=13941151&#038;post=1952&#038;subd=tomcatintheredroom&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Quantum Thief &#8211; Hannu Rajaniemi</title>
		<link>http://tomcatintheredroom.com/2013/04/28/the-quantum-thief-hannu-rajaniemi/</link>
		<comments>http://tomcatintheredroom.com/2013/04/28/the-quantum-thief-hannu-rajaniemi/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Apr 2013 23:03:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tomcat</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hannu Rajaniemi’s The Quantum Thief occasionally does this really interesting thing whereby it wilfully undercuts its own hyperbole, often to grand (if a tad saccharine) emotional effect.  The greater part of the book’s aesthetic comprises a kind of rampant over-the-top-ness; it’s very, very far-future SF: every character is a quasi-immortal (don’t ask) posthuman, the action [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=tomcatintheredroom.com&#038;blog=13941151&#038;post=1934&#038;subd=tomcatintheredroom&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>By Light Alone &#8211; Adam Roberts</title>
		<link>http://tomcatintheredroom.com/2013/03/25/by-light-alone-adam-roberts/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Mar 2013 22:40:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tomcat</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[You know zombie movies, yeah?  Zombie movies? Okay so you know how in zombie movies there’s often a protracted period in the opening act during which the characters have no idea that the world has gone to shit and that the zombie horde is almost at their front door, and the only way that the [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=tomcatintheredroom.com&#038;blog=13941151&#038;post=1916&#038;subd=tomcatintheredroom&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Bedlam &#8211; Nick Spencer &amp; Riley Rossmo</title>
		<link>http://tomcatintheredroom.com/2013/03/19/bedlam-nick-spencer-riley-rossmo/</link>
		<comments>http://tomcatintheredroom.com/2013/03/19/bedlam-nick-spencer-riley-rossmo/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Mar 2013 23:31:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tomcat</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[What I like most about Bedlam is that the de facto hero of its noir-inspired universe &#8211; a guy oh-so-facetiously called ‘The First’ &#8211; is relegated to the margins of the work, dismissed as a curiosity and given what is undoubtedly the least significant narrative role of any of the comic’s characters.  We know he’s [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=tomcatintheredroom.com&#038;blog=13941151&#038;post=1899&#038;subd=tomcatintheredroom&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Utopia &#8211; Thomas More</title>
		<link>http://tomcatintheredroom.com/2013/03/16/utopia-thomas-more/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 16 Mar 2013 23:44:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tomcat</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Sir Thomas More]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Utopia]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I feel bad that I&#8217;ve not posted anything for over a month, but various circumstances have conspired to prevent me from writing anything new and so, to assuage my blogger&#8217;s guilt, here&#8217;s something you&#8217;ve not seen before. This is an essay I wrote waaay back in my first term at University; I&#8217;ve removed a few [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=tomcatintheredroom.com&#038;blog=13941151&#038;post=1881&#038;subd=tomcatintheredroom&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The A26 &#8211; Pascal Garnier</title>
		<link>http://tomcatintheredroom.com/2013/02/07/the-a26-pascal-garnier/</link>
		<comments>http://tomcatintheredroom.com/2013/02/07/the-a26-pascal-garnier/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Feb 2013 23:01:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tomcat</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Musings]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Pascal Garnier]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I guess it’s customary for me to begin my reviews by writing about the genre in which any given book functions, but darn it this one has me stumped. Stylistically The A26 borrows from mid-Twentieth-Century hardboiled noir; stuff like Raymond Chandler and Georges Simenon.  The writing is often cynical, curt and metaphor-heavy, characterised by an [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=tomcatintheredroom.com&#038;blog=13941151&#038;post=1851&#038;subd=tomcatintheredroom&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Thaliad &#8211; Marly Youmans</title>
		<link>http://tomcatintheredroom.com/2013/01/26/thaliad-marly-youmans/</link>
		<comments>http://tomcatintheredroom.com/2013/01/26/thaliad-marly-youmans/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Jan 2013 22:09:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tomcat</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Clive Hicks-Jenkins]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Marly Youmans]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Thaliad]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[So it seems that literary post-apocalyptic narrative is undergoing something of a renaissance here in the early 21st Century.  The genre&#8217;s most famous works (Gene Wolfe’s Book of the New Sun, Jack Vance’s Dying Earth, Russell Hoban’s Ridley Walker, Samuel R. Delany’s Dhalgren etc. and etc.) set early standards of poetic and intellectual brilliance so [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=tomcatintheredroom.com&#038;blog=13941151&#038;post=1834&#038;subd=tomcatintheredroom&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Both Flesh and Not &#8211; David Foster Wallace</title>
		<link>http://tomcatintheredroom.com/2013/01/13/both-flesh-and-not-david-foster-wallace/</link>
		<comments>http://tomcatintheredroom.com/2013/01/13/both-flesh-and-not-david-foster-wallace/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Jan 2013 22:50:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tomcat</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Both Flesh and Not is the first of what I assume will be several posthumous bringing-togethers of David Foster Wallace’s shorter non-fiction.  This collection offers a somewhat disparate array of brilliant and not-so-brilliant essays plonked in concert with seemingly little concern for chronology, consistency of subject matter or overall theme.  As such, I’ve decided to [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=tomcatintheredroom.com&#038;blog=13941151&#038;post=1807&#038;subd=tomcatintheredroom&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Wind-up Bird Chronicle &#8211; Haruki Murakami</title>
		<link>http://tomcatintheredroom.com/2012/12/12/the-wind-up-bird-chronicle-haruki-murakami/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Dec 2012 00:53:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tomcat</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Haruki Murakami]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[On the face of it, Haruki Murakami’s The Wind-up Bird Chronicle seems a fairly innocent and quirky coming-of-age story; an earnest yarn about a passive, unemployed waster who only realises the true value of life and love (etc.) when his wife leaves him, an old friend dies, and his, er, cat disappears (what is it [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=tomcatintheredroom.com&#038;blog=13941151&#038;post=1761&#038;subd=tomcatintheredroom&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The American Future: A History &#8211; Simon Schama</title>
		<link>http://tomcatintheredroom.com/2012/11/26/the-american-future-a-history-simon-schama/</link>
		<comments>http://tomcatintheredroom.com/2012/11/26/the-american-future-a-history-simon-schama/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Nov 2012 23:38:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tomcat</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Nobody writes history quite like Simon Schama: But when you stepped through the bails of scratchy tumbleweed that had come to rest against the broken fence you could see the place was held together by nothing more than the debris of its own ruin; the splintered wreck of a life that was hanging on in [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=tomcatintheredroom.com&#038;blog=13941151&#038;post=1720&#038;subd=tomcatintheredroom&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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