{"id":14,"date":"2011-09-13T12:25:43","date_gmt":"2011-09-13T12:25:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.markwebb.name\/?page_id=14"},"modified":"2023-10-10T22:39:42","modified_gmt":"2023-10-10T12:39:42","slug":"what-is-mark-reading","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.markwebb.name\/?page_id=14","title":{"rendered":"What is Mark reading?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Any of my reviews of books or magazines are summarised here. I don’t review very often any more, so this is more of an archive but who knows – maybe the muse will take me again one day!<\/p>\n

Many of the podcasts\/reviews etc I consume are by long standing members of the industry who are much more qualified to judge the merits of the many, many works that populate the speculative fiction landscape than I am. My tastes run to the more pulp\/populist and I don’t seem to pick up on the deep underlying themes that others do. So be warned, if you are in search of a sensitive assessment of the literary merits of a story, with comparisons to obscure\/worthy\/classic authors and use of words like ‘zeitgeist’ then you’ve come to the wrong place. If on the other hand you like a good old fashioned ray gun…<\/p>\n