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"McEwan's book looks back in time to the present day from a climate and war ravaged future. It doesn't pose a question but rather challenges the reader with the emphatic statement, "What we can know." While mourning what has been lost, the biograp..." Permalink

"I think Tchaikovsky dreams up an ecosystem and its creatures first and then writes a story around it. In this novella he imagines a hot Earth of the near future, where an expanding, uninhabitable zone above the wet-bulb temperature can rapidly ki..." Permalink

"Dusk is about a quest for redemption. It's in the form of a western distinguished by a tightly plotted, suspenseful story, a sympathetic pair of siblings, and evocative descriptions of the stunning, harsh landscape. The presence of wallabies and..." Permalink