Five Books That Reinvent Science Fiction
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to choose Is suspense fiction doomed to offer optimistic tales or dystopias that are closer to reality than ever? Authors are trying to move beyond this binary choice.
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It’s understandable that progress won’t take us to a bright future of Star Trek-style space travel (eager robots, rockets, superpowers), and stories of collapse are now everywhere. But what’s the point of talking about another apocalypse when current events are outpacing yesterday’s predictions? Here’s a collection—of works—that offer other perspectives.
• in “Occupying the Sky” (Shor, 2024) Belgian author Gilles Bartholens imagines a near future where the creation of a small colony on Mars turns into a tragedy. All but one of its inhabitants die, but he returns with amnesia. This beautiful book depicts a double failure: the failure of our world, where giant fires force the United States to abandon entire regions; and the invasion of Planet B in the mode of Elon Musk.“March's desire…
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