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The Blue, Beautiful World by Karen Lord

By John Folk-Williams

The Blue Beautiful World by Karen Lord

The Blue, Beautiful World by Karen Lord, the latest in her Cygnus Beta novels, is unlike any science fictional work I’ve recently read. It depicts familiar elements: a vast scale of galactic politics, a humanoid diaspora in space, a climate-changed Earth where cities are being enclosed in protective globes and many current nation states have […]

Filed Under: Future History, Space Opera Tagged With: alien civilizations, family, galaxy, relationships, ruined earth, space community, transformation

Neom by Lavie Tidhar – A Review

By John Folk-Williams

Neom by Lavie Tidhar Locus Ballot 2023

In the helpful afterward to his hauntingly beautiful new novel, Neom, Lavie Tidhar describes his process of writing it as one of discovery. He wrote about a robot going to the flower market of the bustling city of Neom to buy a single rose. But why? He had to write another story to answer that […]

Filed Under: Future History, SFF Cities Tagged With: Central Station, city, family, future history, Lavie Tidhar, love, Neom, purpose, robots

H.G. Wells’ Things to Come – the 1936 Film

By John Folk-Williams

H. G. Wells Things to Come

H. G. Wells wrote the screen adaptation of his future history, The Shape of Things to Come, to give a dramatic setting to his sweeping vision of a world first devastated by war then resurrected by a corps of brilliant engineers. The result was Things to Come, a 1936 film produced by Alexander Korda and […]

Filed Under: Future History, Post-Apocalytic, Scifi TV/Movies, Vintage Science Fiction Tagged With: city, civilization, dystopia, future history, H.G. Wells, space travel, technology, Things to Come

The Shape of Things to Come by H.G. Wells

By John Folk-Williams

The Shape of Things to Come by H.G. Wells

On with Vintage Science Fiction Month! H.G. Wells’ The Shape of Things to Come (1933) purports to be the “dreamed” history of the next hundred and fifty years of human experience. Be warned: it’s serious future fictional history without a character or action-driven plot, though there are a few strong personalities who take the spotlight […]

Filed Under: Future History, Post-Apocalytic, Vintage Science Fiction Tagged With: dictatorship, economy, future history, H.G. Wells, hopeful future, individuality, information, nationalism, plague, religion, world collapse

The Dystopian Lawyer Series by Christopher Brown

By John Folk-Williams

Failed State Dystopian Lawyer Book 2

Christopher Brown’s two-book set (Rule of Capture and Failed State) about his hapless yet strangely effective dystopian lawyer, Donnie Kimoe, may come too close to our dystopian present for comfort, but they also shine with ideas about a better way to envision the future. As he put it in a recent essay in Literary Hub: […]

Filed Under: Future History, Great Series Read Project, Post-Apocalytic Tagged With: Christopher Brown, dystopia, dystopian lawyer, hopeful future, law, power, ruined earth

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Something is struggling to be born in this damaged and inspiring world, and I believe science fiction and its speculative cousins are helping us figure out what it is. It’s pushing the imaginations of fiction writers to bend and twist familiar forms to try to capture the forces that are hurling us into a barely conceivable future. This blog is my small way of exploring the half-perceived … Read More about About

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