The Electric State is a difficult book to review in light of the Arthur C. Clarke Award as although the book is a story it is not a novel. Stalenhag is a renonwned artist and concept designer and what he presents here is a series of futuristic landscape paintings that is accompanied by a story... Continue Reading →

Rosewater by Tade Thompson is the first of this year’s Arthur C Clarke Award books I read. It set me up well for this year’s selection being a book I would not normally have read. Set in the near future of Nigeria, the books hero is a gifted psychic, an ability which has emerged in... Continue Reading →