Tag: dystopias
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The Derangement and other calamities
On climate ‘change’ Ian McEwan has form. In Solar (2010) he played on themes of retreating Arctic ice and power from the sun. He gives ecofiction another outing in his most recent novel, What we can know (2025), the main section of which begins in the year 2119, long after Earth has been transformed by…
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E.M. Forster invents the iPad
Years ago my friend C and I challenged each other to read, all the way through, a Classic Long Book. My challenge was Moby-Dick, and his was Bleak House. Whether C ever reached Melville’s majestic final line, ‘… and the great shroud of the sea rolled on as it rolled five thousand years ago’, I…