Why Chill 'em and Chart 'em?

WARNING: CONTAINS PURCHASE OF PINT OF BEER FOR OVER THREE QUID

( Prologue )

( Why )

( Chill 'em )

( Chart 'em )

( Canterbury )

Well Do They?

Do They?,
originally uploaded by Andrew M Butler.

From The Guardian Blog

SF used to be optimistic.
Now it is pessimistic.
It should be optimistic again.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/booksblog/2008/sep/24/science.fiction.fantasy.horror

Better insights in the comments

Reading XLVIII and IL

XLVIII: The Saxon Shore Way (2006)

A cheat really - basically a publicity puff for the long distance footpath giving you little more than a description of the general route and then focusing on eight circular routes of varying lengths at various points on the path. You'd walk about 10% of the route if you did this, maybe less. There are reproductions of OS maps for the selected journeys, which aren't always clear (there's a lot of retracing steps) and brief descriptions of some of the elements on show, and a blank page for each walk for your notes. Chiz.

( IL: Ian Rankin, Dead Souls (1999) )

I picked this up in Rainham; now I need to seek out the next - Set in Darkness, although I should be reading for research.