The Woman Who Reimagined the Dystopian Novel
In E. M. Forster’s dystopian story “The Machine Stops,” published in 1909, the inhabitants of an underground society live…
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Catherine Lacey’s Provocative Novel in Disguise
The first thing that you notice about Catherine Lacey’s new novel is the lack of a determiner. Nouns float, unhooked from any…
To Battersea Park by Philip Hensher review – fever dreams and dystopias | Philip Hensher
Philip Hensher’s latest novel, To Battersea Park, is not the first Covid novel – Ali Smith’s turbocharged Summer got there two…
“M3GAN,” Reviewed: A Clever, Hollow A.I. Spin on “Frankenstein”
The essence of genre is effects without causes—things showing up to fulfill expectations rather than dramatic necessities.…
Excuses from the Future | The New Yorker
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“Crimes of the Future,” Reviewed: It’s the End of the World as David Cronenberg Knew It
David Cronenberg’s new film, “Crimes of the Future,” is launched by a crime of the past, one that emerges from classical Greek…
The Death of Philip K. Dick Brought to Life
The science-fiction writer was guided during his life by a prescient inner voice that he sometimes called the “entity.”
The…
Rediscovering a Lost Dystopia and Its Prescient Author
In the summer of 2020, Becky Brown, a literary agent who represents dead authors, went to stay with her parents in Bath. Brown…
The Strange, Unfinished Saga of Cyberpunk 2077
Mike Pondsmith started playing Dungeons & Dragons in the late seventies, as an undergraduate at the University of…
