Luna: New Moon Ian McDonald Tor Books Release Date: September 22, 2015 ISBN 978-0-7653-7551-3 More than a month before Ian McDonald’s new science fiction novel, Luna: New Moon was released, there was a bidding war for the television rights for it. Could it a book that hasn’t even been published […]
On this day, December 3, in 1857, Joseph Conrad was born in Berdichev, Imperial Russia (modern
Ukraine, then a part of Poland). While he settled in England and wrote in English, he always considered himself a Pole. Heart of Darkness, one of the most famous of his 20 novels (which explores colonialism and the attitudes regarding what constitutes a barbarian versus civilized society) is considered one of the best English novels of the 20th century, as is his novel Lord Jim, which chronicles a crew’s abandonment of its disabled ship. Conrad died in England in 1924 at age 66.