The Distance Of The Moon ★★★☆☆
Italo Calvino
Genre(s) | Short Stories, Fiction, Space
Goodreads Rating | 3.96
Humpo Show Rating | 3.00
Published: 2018
Publisher: Penguin Modern
‘Time is a catastrophe, perpetual and irreversible.’
Science and fiction interweave delightfully in these playful Cosmicomic short stories. Continue reading
Create Dangerously ★★★☆☆
Albert Camus
Genre(s) | Nonfiction, Speeches, Art
Goodreads Rating | 3.81
Humpo Show Rating | 3.00
Published: 2018
Publisher: Penguin Modern
‘To create today is to create dangerously’
Camus argues passionately that the artist has a responsibility to challenge, provoke and speak up for those who cannot in this powerful speech, accompanied here by two others. 
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The Breakthrough ★★★★☆
Daphne du Maurier
Genre(s) | Short Story, Literary
Goodreads Rating | 3.16
Humpo Show Rating | 3.80
Published: 2018
Publisher: Penguin Modern
Dispatch the maimed, the old, the weak, destroy the very world itself, for what is the point of life if the promise of fulfilment lies elsewhere?
On the windswept coast of rural Suffolk, a deranged scientist attempts to extract the essence of life itself. 
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Four Russian Short Stories ★★★☆☆
Gazdanov and Others
Genre(s) | Classic, Russian Literature
Goodreads Rating | 3.5
Humpo Show Rating | 3.20
Published: 2018
Publisher: Penguin Modern
In these stories, four writers – all exiles from revolutionary Russia – explore four deaths in a world in which old certainties have crumbled. 
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