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Alex de Jonge Reviewing science fiction is a bit like working in a chocolate factory: you don't lose your taste for the stuff but regular doses actually kill the addiction. One......

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Peter Ackroyd The Season of the Machete James Patterson (Secker and Warburg £4.50) James Patterson spends his days as an advertising copywriter, in other words as a kind of......