If you haven’t watched it, stop now, go and rent it, and watch Steven Spielberg’s “Ready Player One“ (RPO). The movie is set in “the Stacks”, a high density city of container homes situated in Columbus Ohio in 2045. It is a world where everyone spends most of their time online in Virtual Reality world … Continue reading Ready Player One: a vision of the future
What a brilliant novel. I will keep this short but suffice it to say, one of the best books I have read in many years, beautifully constructed. The story is historical fiction centred on a fictional industrialist pre World War One, built around a spy/murder who-dun-it plot. What makes it brilliant is the construction where … Continue reading Stone’s Fall by Iain Pears
This will be a short review of this Fantasy Novel recommended by a podcast, I took it up for holiday reading. It was a hard slog for me, 538 pages of very dense ornate prose, with a slow moving story. Sort of “Midnight in the garden of good and evil” set just outside of New … Continue reading Little, Big by John Crowley
A wonderful introduction to Greek mythology which I have always been curious about but never found a really accessible read. For my own remembrance I am just going to summarise some of the key characters and relationships here: The First Order – primordial deities – often the idea of the god and the thing they … Continue reading Mythos by Stephen Fry
I was listening to a podcast which reminded me of a really interesting counterintuitive truth: we are more creative when we have constraints. People think creativity will happen when “I make enough space in my life and have this perfect zen moment and can unleash my creativity.” But creativity seems to come better when we … Continue reading Creative Constraints
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