What happens when real life catches up with dystopian fiction? The Children of Men is set in 2021 – yes, just one year from now – where the world has been blighted with mass infertility. No child has been born in 25 years, despite mandated fertility testing. The youngest generation are called the ‘Omegas’ –…
I feel like I am cheating a little by counting A Sincere Warning about the Entity in Your Home by Jason Arnopp in the 746 countdown as I didn’t realise until I went to read it that it is a mere 38 pages long! So, it is less of a book and more of a…
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Now that 20 Books of Summer is done and dusted, it is back to the grind of bringing that 746 down another few notches. I have some books lined up for October and November to coincide with the RIP Challenge, Novella November and Non-Fiction November, but September’s reading plans are pretty relaxed at the moment.…
Anna Kavan’s Ice has been labelled many things. A straightforward apocalyptic sci-fi tale; an allegory of (Kavan’s own) heroin addiction and/or the cold war; a before it’s time warning about the dangers of climate change; a feminist response to misogyny and abuse, or a Beckettian work of the traumas of the inner mind. All these…
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