From the end of the Empire to the dawn of a messy new millennium, Wilson charts the half century of the second Elizabethan era with sharp wit and sweeping opinions.
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Do you recall the tagline from the very first Superman movie? "You'll believe a man can fly!" Well, I'm tempted to craft such a hyperbolic assertion for China Miéville's…
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