The Website of Karl Wilcox

corridor Datum One of the problems of writing about the Culture is that for every descriptive statement that you make there are always exceptions.

If you are going to bring your hit comedy to a close then you might as well do it by producing a screamingly funny series that leaves us wanting more and ensures a place in TV history and never even approaches anything like a shark jumping moment!

This is the first of Ms Kinsella’s books I’ve encountered and I can see why they are popular.

I think that I have a new favourite Brontë novel!

I did give up on this book for a while as it didn’t really fit in with what I wanted to read about - I’d actually been looking for works on the technology of spaceflight so switched to “Digital Apollo” instead.

We watched this together as a family but took an extended break about half way through.

If you like your techno-noir cyberpunk really dark and gritty then this is the book for you!

It took me two attempts, almost a year apart to get all the way through this audiobook.

Six lifelong friends meet up for their traditional New Years Eve hike when a storm forces them into a cave for shelter.

There’s nothing in this book that you haven’t encountered many times before in the fantasy genre.

This was both a disappointment and an annoyance.

The Beach From the Bar I once knew a GCU that had a pet beach with an ocean that went on forever.

When I was a child my head was full of stories.

A child is hit by a car which then drives off.

Nicely twisty – it’s not what you think about pretty much everything in this book, there’s really only two main characters who stay consistently, so even if you spot one of the twists coming don’t worry, there will be others that are still on their way!

Following the fatal car crash of her husband, Hollis, a TV chef and influencer organises an escape weekend at her Nantucket holiday home with her four best friends (or, more accurately, three best friends and a possibly stalkery online pal).

My matching paperbacks for the final three volumes of the Hyperion Cantos arrived a couple of days before the offical release and are looking splendid on my “Space Fiction Hall of Fame” shelf.

This really is a masterpiece of science fiction.