Review of _The Beetle_ by Richard Marsh

@clarkeaward winner Emily St John Mandel on titles.

I wish I could get back in that time machine to 1984 and tell 24-year-old Neil about this. “Neil!” I would say. “In 2015 you will have 16 times as many Twitter followers as Simon Le Bon!” And he would say “Those words all make sense individually but not as a sentence.”

Ken MacLeod on Jura and Orwell's political legacy.