“…mobile jellyfishes and unstable atomic piles.” #SciFiMonth2026 #NonFicNov26 #novnov26

If there’s one thing I love, it’s a book that ticks the boxes for more than one reading event, and today’s title does just that! I can’t remember now what prompted me to pick this up in 2016, but it’s been languishing on the TBR ever since, and it works for Non-Fiction November, Sci Fi Month and Novellas in November – as the latter allows for short non-fiction! The book is “New Maps of Hell” by Kingsley Amis, and it was an absolutely fascinating read. Amis is an author I’ve approached a little gingerly in the past, although I *have* enjoyed two books of his I’ve read – “The Green Man” and “The Riverside Villas Murder“, a pair of entertaining fiction titles. I’ve also covered his poetry as part of my Penguin Projects, and liked it a lot. However, Amis is perhaps not an author you would expect to have an interest in science fiction, but he clearly does, and in “New Maps…” he shares his thoughts on the genre as it was at the time of the book. “New Maps…” is subtitled “A Survey of Science…

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