The bard celebrates two other fine practitioners of the art, and laments a lost brewer
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Sci-Fi & Fantasy with MAT COWARD
Reviews of new titles by Lindsay Ellis, JT Greathouse and Nicole Jarvis
This right-wing conspiracy theory is used to justify the coercive measures against gender, race and labour rights that best serve capitalism, attests GAVIN O’TOOLE
KENNY MONROSE recommends a new exhibition that highlights the significance of Black British music
ANGUS REID is bowled over by an exuberant film about the making of Keith Jarrett’s legendary concert
MARIA DUARTE, FIONA O’CONNOR and ANDY HEDGECOCK review Savage House, Enzo, Madfabulous, and Erupcja
CHRIS SEARLE recommends a work of love and deep admiration for a great musician
TRUTH OF THE DIVINE by Lindsay Ellis (Titan, £17.99) continues the story of first contact started in last year’s Axiom’s End.
The revelation that a small group of extraterrestrial refugees is living on Earth is triggering a realignment of US politics, as xenophobic leaders cash in on the widespread nervousness created by continuing government secrecy.
A new division in that most divided of nations soon arises, over whether people from another planet are, in fact, people in a legal and philosophical sense. Cunning right-wingers argue for a compromise in which the aliens will be granted partial personhood. That this semi-citizen category might in the future be used against groups of native humans is not lost either on policy-makers or their opponents.
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