Embedded: An accessible mind-bending sci-fi that’ll claim your afternoon
Embedded presents something different in the Sci-Fi genre. Technology is not just introduced, it evolves alongside the narrative.
Kamel Daoud subverts Albert Camus in absurd, comic take
While Kamel Daoud’s book is a classic subversion of Albert Camus’ classic, something far more meaningful breathes just below the surface.
What Star Wars needs from Lord of the Rings
With the new Star Wars installment growing ever closer, Lachlan Liesfield is hoping for a change of tack, following Tolkien’s example of less is more.
Liesfield’s Inferno: Three books he’d save in a fire
Continuing on with last week’s narrative thread, we asked writer Lachlan Liesfield what books he’d plunge himself into an inferno to save.
Book review: Officers and Gentlemen – Evelyn Waugh
Lachlan Liesfield wanders through Evelyn Waugh’s lucid WW2 novel “Officers and Gentlemen”, which, despite it’s problems, loses none of its power to drag you in.
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