review – Robin Catling

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The Book Club podcast does literature a little differently, as much about the authors and their time, unpacking the historical […]

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Robin Catling / November 11, 2025

Sci-fi Fantasy Classics: H.G. Wells secured his place as a visionary science fiction author with a succession of undying classics.

Robin Catling / November 11, 2025

Sci-fi-fantasy classics: C.J. Cherryh. This author has a vast back catalogue of award winning novels spanning hard science fiction, space

Stevenson’s The Curious Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde brilliantly captures the duality of human nature, the good and

Robin Catling / September 29, 2025

Sci-fi-fantasy classics: J.R.R. Tolkien’s work casts a long shadow across an entire genre.

Robin Catling / September 4, 2025

Want to read some fantasy heroines who aren’t love-sick teenagers? Here are eight fantasy heroines who break the YA and

A masterwork that birthed modern science fiction, horror and psychological thrillers, Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein is a cautionary and morality tale.

So many layers, where to begin? Wild Seed piles on complex themes; power, identity,the ethics of eugenics. There’s an exploration

Elizabeth A. Lynn’s 1980 award-winner Watchtower opens her Arun trilogy as a literary-fantasy of low magic and gender-fluidity. If E.M.