Adam Roberts·Aug 25, 2025Ben Markovits, ‘You Don’t Have To Live Like This’ (2015)[Note. I no longer post new material to this site: I’ve moved, where new writing is concerned, to Substack, for frankly mercenary reasons…
Adam Roberts·Aug 25, 2025Ben Markovits, Playing Days (2010)[Note. I no longer post new material to this site: I’ve moved, where new writing is concerned, to Substack, for frankly mercenary reasons…
InAdam’s NotebookbyAdam Roberts·Aug 10, 2025The Stirk of Stirk (1974)What an oddity this book is. Tinniswood was, in his day, a quite successful comic novelist, writing mostly in Northern-English realist…A response icon1A response icon1
InAdam’s NotebookbyAdam Roberts·Apr 27, 2025‘Pinocchio’ (2022: directed by Guillermo del Toro and Mark Gustafson)The buzz on del Toro’s Pinocchio (2022) was very promising (Mark Kermode thought it a near flawless five-star masterpiece) so I sat down to…
InAdam’s NotebookbyAdam Roberts·Apr 13, 2025The First Generation StarshipSince faster-than-light travel is impossible, and the stars are so very, very far away, any craft making interstellar journeys will take…
InAdam’s NotebookbyAdam Roberts·Mar 15, 2025Star Wars: Crash 2“A car crash harnesses elements of eroticism, aggression, desire, speed, drama, kinesthetic factors, the stylizing of motion, consumer…A response icon1A response icon1
InAdam’s NotebookbyAdam Roberts·Mar 14, 2025“Everything Everywhere All at Once” (dir. Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert, aka ‘Daniels’ 2022)Every review everywhere all-of-them agrees on the excellence of this movie, and I’m certainly not going to disagree. It is (maybe) a tad…
InAdam’s NotebookbyAdam Roberts·Feb 23, 2025Brian Aldiss, ‘Life in the West’ (1980)It’s not science fiction, this novel, although it includes some discussion of science fiction, and a few glancing SF-ishnesses. Life in the…
