The Sleepwalkers by Scarlett Thomas review – fiendishly gripping | Fiction
BBefore the reader begins reading Scarlett Thomas’s wonderfully captivating new book, it is clear that this is a story of disaster, of which there are actually several versions, and the contents page is the documentary evidence. Letters, audio transcriptions, drawings, photographs, pages torn from hotel guestbooks, and confessions. “The Sleepwalker” is a scrapbook of disaster, […]
‘Turning science fiction into reality’
This is not the act of a magician. British startup Invisibility Shield Co. says it has developed a 6-foot-tall “megashield” and is selling it for $828. The company says it can make multiple people invisible, just like something out of the Harry Potter movies. The shields use a super-large, precision-engineered lens array that forms the […]
Stone Yard Devotional by Charlotte Wood review – a quiet novel of immense power | Fiction
WWhat are we going to do about global warming, mass extinctions, and rivers? What ability do we have to change things now that so much of the power is in the hands of unaccountable corporations and shameless demagogues? Is there any point in trying it? The narrator of The Stone Yard Devotional, who has worked […]
Georgi Gospodinov: âThere was a culture of silence â it was safer not to say what you thinkâ | Fiction
BBulgarian writer Georgi Gospodinov, 56, won last year’s International Booker Prize (along with translator Angela Rodel) for his dystopian comedy. time shelter, about an innovative dementia clinic that recreates the past. his previous novels, physics of sadnessThe unconventional coming-of-age story, which draws on Greek mythology and the history of communist Europe, will be published for […]
China Blacklists Pro-Democracy Writers from Science Fiction Hugo Awards
On Thursday, a major scandal rocked the world of science fiction and fantasy writing. Leaked emails reveal that writers can be quietly stripped of winning the prestigious Hugo Prize if their work displeases the Chinese Communist Party. of hugo award is one of the oldest and most prestigious science fiction and fantasy literature awards. They […]
Does ‘American Fiction’ signal the end of Hollywood’s woke era?
Cord Jefferson's directorial debut American Fiction spoke to me like few films I've seen in the past 20 years. As an educated, straight, Christian black man, I have come to expect that Hollywood prefers to portray the black experience in no way reflecting my reality. I enjoyed “Boyz and the Hood,” “Menace II Society,” “Baby […]