A Naked Singularity by Sergio de la Pava

This is a really tricky one to review. Colleagues will have seen some of the expressions my face whilst I was reading it in the staffroom at lunchtime, so will have formed an impression from that, but it’s a complex novel that didn’t make for easy reading. Try this for size: “After all there IContinue reading “A Naked Singularity by Sergio de la Pava”

Among Others by Jo Walton

This is so much the book I’d wish I’d written… an intriguing tale of magic melding with science fiction in the adolescence of a young girl; an elegy to libraries and to the power of words. Teenager Mori has run away from the Welsh valleys, from her malignant mother, and the death of her belovedContinue reading “Among Others by Jo Walton”