by NRB | 1 Oct 2015 | Fiction |
Wood’s remarkable insight into human nature and deft control of her characters create a narrative that strikes to the heart of gender relations. Yolanda and Verla meet in a bare room, dressed in identical cumbersome outfits and beset by a post-sedative haze. It isn’t...
by NRB | 22 May 2014 | SFF |
This future world takes the ethical dilemmas and tendencies of our own time on some scary trajectories. In the earth of the far future, a world of 20 billion inhabitants who are living under domes and experiencing a life controlled by the World Union, Peter Lazarus is...
by NRB | 16 Jan 2014 | SFF |
This debut is a fresh – and refreshing – addition to the tradition of Australian dystopian fiction. Oh, and there’s trucks. Post-apocalyptic dystopian stories have been popular for a long time now and seem increasingly so. They allow us to play out our worst...
by NRB | 19 Feb 2013 | Crime Scene, Fiction |
This dystopian Finnish crime novel is well above the ordinary. The Healer is set in Finland in the near future of drastic climate change. Floods, earthquakes and disease have ravaged most of the world, causing widespread cultural upheaval, the disintegration of...
by Jean Bedford | 27 Sep 2012 | Fiction, SFF |
Do we need to be afraid? Liz Jensen’s vision of the near future is terrifying. The Uninvited is a near-future dystopian novel that also taps into the category of ‘weird’ fiction some critics have recently noted in the contemporary English novel. Liz Jensen is...