Posted in My Interzone Reviews, Reviews published in Interzone, Science Fiction at 20:30 on 17 November 2020
It’s that time again. The latest issue of Interzone – 289 of that ilk – landed on my doormat this morning.
This one contains my review of Cixin Liu’s collection of short stories Hold Up the Sky which I mentioned receiving here.
Once again the cover is a wraparound. See below:-
Posted in Curiosities, Science Fiction at 20:30 on 19 October 2020
The keener eyed among you will have seen from my side bar that I have just finished reading Chinese SF author Cixin Liu’s collection entitled Hold up the Sky.
In it there were two separate references to characters requiring medical procedures that were too expensive for them to afford.
I also heard on the TV news recently that those receiving a test dose of a vaccine newly produced in China against the Covid-19 causing coronavirus also needed to pay the equivalent of £45 pounds for the privilege.
China is reviled in certain quarters as being a Communist country.
I must say that on the evidence above China must be far from being even a socialist utopia, the minimum requirement for which I would have considered to be medical treatment free at the point of use.
Posted in My Interzone Reviews, Science Fiction at 20:30 on 12 October 2020
Hold Up the Sky by Cixin Liu is a collection of the Hugo Award winning author’s short stories. It’s my latest review book for Interzone and arrived this afternoon. It’s not usual for my mail to be so late in the day but I was pleased it came all the same.
