Cutting edge artists and musicians are often considered cultural leaders, able to see and express things the rest of us struggle to see. Given we are facing unprecedented disruption and challenges of climate change, I am keenly interested in what artists and musicians are saying about this challenge before us. So I thought I'd do a simple investigation. My home city of Melbourne is considered the cultural capital of Australia and host to many internationally acclaimed cultura

I read this book over the summer of 2017-18 (Southern hemisphere for all confused northerners) and these comment here are not really intended as a review (critique of writing style, narrative flow, its fit in the canon ...). I don't care too much about that. Rather, it is my visceral response to an extraordinary space journey. The premise of this book is stunning once it becomes apparent what is happening. Call it a sophisticated allegory or just great scientific fiction writ