Monthly Archives: January 2023

Horror and Ghost

by anonymous Some things are scary. It can be the unknown in a dark alley, an old doll at a flea market, some irremovable stains, or simply the monsters under our beds. Sometimes it’s not physical, but only some unreasonable … Continue reading

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Pat Grant’s “Blue” – A Reading Diary

by Jo Hoffs Pat Grant’s Blue is a graphic novel about surfing, about community, about migration and conservatism. First and foremost, it is a story about xenophobia, and about a blue alien race migrating to the fictional town of Bolton. … Continue reading

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Human Beings Playing God

by Mara Geißen My first intuition about a book titled Ghost Species was that it would be about ghosts in some way. However, it is not about the living dead haunting somewhere, but much more excitingly about the re-creation of … Continue reading

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Ghost Species – about the Fallacies of Capitalism

by anonymous The Australian novel Ghost Species by James Bradley talks extensively about the nature of human life, nature vs. nurture, finding your place in the world, etc. Underlying its positive messages to these topics is a frankly horrifying depiction … Continue reading

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Let’s speculate about de-extinction!

James Bradley’s novel Ghost Species is part of the genre of Australian speculative fiction. A main topic of his speculations is based on the de-extinction of extinct species such as the thylacines (also known as the Tasmanian tiger or wolf), … Continue reading

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How not to Shape the Future

by anonymous The question of whether reproduction is still a morally responsible thing to do has been a highly debated topic which has recently even expanded onto the mainstream discourse. The predominant approaches we’ve seen are firstly the assumption that … Continue reading

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