The Times

There is a kind of excitement associated with living in troubled, "interesting," times. Life ceases to be routine. Change might be for the better or, at least, things will be different. Poul Anderson conveys this sense in:

Mirkheim

The People Of The Wind

The Day Of Their Return

The Game Of Empire

- four novels in his Technic History. This future history series is about social change. There is a generation gap and a sense of growing corporate menace in "Lodestar," the short story that precedes Mirkheim.

This is the time of the evening when, sometimes, comparisons are made with other reading. Garth Ennis conveys the sense of an accelerating crisis - something will happen but no one knows what - in his graphic fiction series, The Boys. If superheroes existed, then why should they not just take over everything? Who or what would stop them? Read Garth Ennis.