Triffids Beard 2 - The Bearded Triffid

seems unreal and the ending is unresolved. The book is smoothly written and I enjoyed it immensely as I
was reading it; but it turned out to be a bit like chinese food. An hour later I was empty again and
wanting more.
In Look at the Evidence John Clute gives us another volume of critical essays covering the years 1987
to 1992. In looking at the evidence it becomes obvious (as if we ever doubted it) that Clute is one of the
most insightful critics that the field has yet produced. This is a valuable and important book.
Many of these pieces were published in Interzone which is more of a mass market magazine than
Clute's usual outlets. Perhaps for this reason he has moderated his usual florid language somewhat and
now one seldom needs a dictionary to understand what he is saying (no more than half a dozen times
per essay, on average). Clute has often been criticised for the excesses of his logomachic
circumlocutions and I was amused to note that in the introduction to one of the essays he confesses
that he has revised it for book publication by removing or re-writing the sentences that he himself no
longer understands so as to make the essay say something approximating to what he thought he might
have meant to say in the first place. Maybe.
Arthur C. Clarke 3001 - The Final Odyssey Del Rey
Wilbur Smith Birds of Prey Macmillan
Louis de Bernieres Captain Corelli's Mandolin Minerva
Harry Harrison King and Emperor Legend
Jack Vance Night Lamp Voyager
Clive Barker Sacrament Harper
Joseph Wambaugh Floaters Bantam
Jane Lindskold Smoke and Mirrors AvoNova
John Clute Look at the Evidence Liverpool University Press