Stowski

Over the past few years I have been reading all Hugo Award winners (excluding retros, so back to 1953) and wanted to share some of my best / worst picks and thoughts.

I’ve seen people rank the full list as well as post reviews of each book before, so thought I’d do something different:

Favourite books (broadly following the crowd here):

• 2005 Johnathan Strange and Mr Norell by Susanna Clarke – A big read but so well written and great characters, I’ve seen it recommended in lots of places and for good reason
• 1985 Neuromancer by William Gibson – As others have said before I am sure, shaped the whole cyberpunk genre and very cool to have been written when it was (more or less pre-inte

As the title says really. I'm just wondering about the impacts of inflation on my pension pot through the civil service.

I no longer work in the civil service but have done for a number of years in the last decade. I'm not close to retirement age (in my 30s) however I was wondering how 9% inflation might impact things.

The only references I can find is that plans in payment for a year are increased by CPI each year (so last year 3% or so).

What's the impact on pensions not in payment yet which still have a long time on the clock?