Sci-Fi / Speculative Fiction

THE CLASSICS CLUB: Fahrenheit 451

By Paula Bardell-Hedley on 28/10/2019 • ( 32 )

Ray Bradbury’s 1953 dystopian novel imagines a future American society where books are forbidden and ‘firemen’ burn those that are found.

THOUGHTS ON: The Testaments

By Paula Bardell-Hedley on 26/09/2019 • ( 54 )

Margaret Atwood’s sequel to ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ begins fifteen years after Offred makes her final appearance in the original novel. I share my thoughts on this highly anticipated dystopian tale.

THE CLASSICS CLUB: Brave New World

By Paula Bardell-Hedley on 14/08/2018 • ( 42 )

Aldous Huxley’s ingenious fantasy of the future sheds a blazing light on the present and is considered to be his most enduring masterwork.

THOUGHTS ON: Freedom: Vintage Minis

By Paula Bardell-Hedley on 24/04/2018 • ( 16 )

Can we ever be wholly free? In this book Margaret Atwood holds a mirror up to our own world. The reflection we are faced with, of men and women in prisons literal and metaphorical, is frightening but not without hope.