B. Aldiss, Hothouse (1962)
M. Atwood, The year of the flood (2009)
M. Atwood, Maddaddam (2013)
G. Maxwell, The Rocks remain (1963)
G. Maxwell, Raven seek thy brother (1968)
B. Malzberg, Beyond Apollo (1972)
E. Rogan, The fall of the Ottomans (2015)
I seem only to have read in pockets this month. All the fiction was science fiction; the rest mostly consisted of the lives of oddities; and the Ottomans. Anyway, of all the oddness, the life of Edmund Backhouse was the best. Hugh Trevor-Roper (unfairly described as a discredited historian by my boss) never did get round to producing a masterwork. This isn't even close, but it is a compelling and extraordinary tale of one of the most fantastic chancers in modern history. That Trevor-Roper kept getting distracted by projects like this undermined his claims on posterity as an historian, but it is great fun.
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