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Dogs and Monsters by Mark Haddon, review: Visions of mortality

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Dogs and Monsters by Mark Haddon, review: Visions of mortality

“My Old School,” one of eight stories in Mark Haddon’s grim new collection, recalls – at first – some of the novels Roald Dahl conjured from his time at Repton. It’s no secret that the British boarding school experience was often bleak and full of abuse; recent memoirs by Earl Spencer and Alex Renton provide […]

Aliens probably exist – but there is a terrible reason why we have never met them

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Aliens probably exist – but there is a terrible reason why we have never met them

Late 20th-century Soviet science fiction writers and brothers Arkady and Boris Strugatsky argued that the sole purpose of a spacefaring species’ life was to ensure the well-being of the universe by promoting sentience, consciousness, and even happiness. To which Dolls, one of their most compelling alien protagonists, grumbles: Yes, but what kind of consciousness? What […]