Alison Flood
Comment and Culture Editor at New Scientist
Comment and culture editor at the New Scientist; formerly @guardianbooks. Reviews thrillers for @ObsNewReview
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2 weeks ago |
observer.co.uk | Alison Flood
Sophie Hannah is a versatile and brilliant crime writer (she’s also a poet, but I know less about that). Whether she’s continuing the high jinks of Hercule Poirot or writing deeply suspenseful and insightful modern-day thrillers, she is always a delight to read. Her latest, No One Would Do What the Lamberts Have Done (Bedford Square Publishers), is something rather different.
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3 weeks ago |
newscientist.com | Alison Flood
Do you like your world ravaged by unstoppable and deadly viruses or technologies? If so, then June is your month, because we have everything from a contagion that makes people lustful to a neural chip that lets us turn off sleep. We’ve also got an environmental apocalypse from Inga Simpson in The Thinning, and I’m definitely in the mood for a slice of feminist body horror from E.K. Sathue pitched as American Psycho meets The Substance. Elsewhere, we have Megan E.
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4 weeks ago |
newscientist.com | Alison Flood
Comment Culture editor Alison Flood rounds up the New Scientist Book Club’s thoughts on our latest read, the science fiction classic Ringworld by Larry Niven It was quite an experience, moving from the technicolour magical realism of Michel Nieva’s wild dystopia, Dengue Boy, to Larry Niven’s slice of classic science fiction, Ringworld, first published in 1970 and very much redolent of the sci-fi writing of that era.
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1 month ago |
newscientist.com | Alison Flood
With a full belly – look closely and you can see the tentacles of the deep-sea squid she has just feasted on, dangling from her mouth – this mother sperm whale sleeps, her calf nearby. This photograph, named Suspended Grace, was taken by photographer Paul Nicklen and is one of a host of images displayed at the photography fair Photo London this week. It exudes peace, but Nicklen was feeling a real mix of emotions when he took it in Dominica in 2019.
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1 month ago |
flipboard.com | Alison Flood
12 hours agoPoehler said she went from "crying to laughing so hard that like squirt tears came out." Laughter truly is the best medicine, and no one knows that like Amy Poehler and Jon Hamm. During the newest episode of her podcast, Good Hang with Amy Poehler, Poehler told guest Paul Rudd about the time Hamm made …
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Amazing piece from the legendary Larry Niven for @newscientist book club, on the science of Ringworld https://t.co/jiapRJ6BKz
RT @newscientist: John Scalzi, Silvia Park and Ai Jang all have new science fiction novels out in March. Whether it’s time travel or a moon…
RT @emilyhwilson: I had the privilege of quizzing @aptshadow about his extraordinary sci fi, his writing practices, his big ambition, the l…
