IAIN PEARS Arcadia. Reviewed by Chris Maher

IAIN PEARS Arcadia. Reviewed by Chris Maher

The author of An Instance of the Fingerpost explores what happens when words create worlds. What if Alice’s Wonderland was a science fiction creation rather than a fantastic one? By what previously undiscovered scientific laws would that be possible? In Arcadia, Pears...
ANDREW MACRAE Trucksong. Reviewed by Keith Stevenson

ANDREW MACRAE Trucksong. Reviewed by Keith Stevenson

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...

LIZ JENSEN The Uninvited

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...