My second Arthur C Clarke novel in a week, and while they are separated by 20 years of publication and are not at all meant to be connected really, and this would be impossible given the events of Childhood’s End, I do think they represent a maturity in either the author’s view on the nature of humanity, the genre of science fiction, or some other changes in the world at large, because they act almost as variations on a theme. What will or would it be […]

I haven’t been great about keeping up with reading this year, bouncing between a number of different books and struggling to finish them. So I focused on something small and classic to see if that would give me a reading kick-start. I picked Rendezvous with Rama because I haven’t actually read it before even though I grew up in a household full of classic SF thanks to my parent’s taste in books, and also the stories about the comet Oumuamua were still in my head. […]