By: Valery Bryusov

Everyone fled who could.

By: J.D. Beresford

“Books,” he said.

By: Joshua Glenn

Lauren Beukes’s MOXYLAND

By: Valery Bryusov

Life was standardised even to the most minute details.

By: J.D. Beresford

“What should I learn out of all them books?”

By: Joshua Glenn

Iain M. Banks’s SURFACE DETAIL

By: Valery Bryusov

The number of working hours in the day were small in the extreme.

By: J.D. Beresford

“‘Oo is God?”

By: HILOBROW

“A huge effort to help define a new era of science fiction.”

By: Joshua Glenn

Annalee Newitz’s AUTONOMOUS

By: H.G. Wells

“Smart degenerates,” he muttered. “Anæmic cockneydom.”

By: J.D. Beresford

“Didn’t you have a little of the ‘fifth form’ feeling?”

By: Joshua Glenn

China Miéville’s EMBASSYTOWN

By: H.G. Wells

They despised their bawling patriotisms…

By: HILOBROW

March 15th virtual confab!