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Service Model by Adrian Tchaikovsky

By John Folk-Williams

Service Model by Adrian Tchaikovsky

I once read that most novel plots could be reduced to two great starting points: a stranger comes to town, and someone goes on a journey. In Adrian Tchaikovsky’s comic and thought-provoking Service Model, the one-time valet robot named Charles embarks on a journey to discover the source of a fatal error in his routines. […]

Filed Under: Post-Apocalytic Tagged With: Adrian Tchaikovsky, agency, artificial intelligence, free will, human survival, justice, library, robots

Lost Ark Dreaming by Suyi Davies Okungbowa

By John Folk-Williams

Lost Ark Dreaming

“What are we but stories that touch?” This crucial question arises early in one of the poetic interludes of this absorbing novella about the drowning world of a future Lagos – Lost Ark Dreaming by Suyi Davies Okungbowa. While most of the city is now underwater, survivors live in the Pinnacle, highest of five towers […]

Filed Under: Post-Apocalytic, Urban Fantasy Tagged With: Afrofuturist, city, dreams, family, memory, myth, Nigeria, poetry, Suyi Davies Okungbowa, transhuman

Julia: A Retelling of George Orwell’s 1984 by Sandra Newman

By John Folk-Williams

Julia by Sandra Newman

I hesitated to put up this review of Julia by Sandra Newman since I recently indicated that my reviewing time, limited due to illness, would be devoted to books that really inspired me in some way. Well, this one didn’t, but it was the last commitment I made to NetGalley, so I wrote a brief […]

Filed Under: Post-Apocalytic Tagged With: exploitation, freedom, future history, George Orwell, liberation, politics, power, slavery

David Mogo Godhunter by Suyi Davies Okungbowa

By John Folk-Williams

David Mogo Godhunter

In David Mogo Godhunter by Suyi Davies Okungbowa (author of Son of the Storm) the end of the world has come to Lagos. After a war among orishas, or gods, in Orun, home of a major pantheon, hundreds of spirits have taken over most of the city in the great Falling. Much of it lies […]

Filed Under: Post-Apocalytic, Urban Fantasy Tagged With: African SFF, city, family, godpunk, gods, orisha, religion, spirits, Suyi Davies Okungbowa

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep by Philip K. Dick – #VintageSciFiMonth

By John Folk-Williams

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (1968) by Philip K. Dick asks a basic question that is all the more pressing today. What’s the difference between a human being and an android? Dick goes beyond the current debate about the potential replacement of humans by robotic software to produce creative works we feel should only […]

Filed Under: Post-Apocalytic, Vintage Science Fiction Tagged With: androids, human emotion, identity, Philip K. Dick, religion, ruined earth

One Day All This Will Be Yours by Adrian Tchaikovsky

By John Folk-Williams

One Day All This Will Be Yours by Adrian Tchaikovsky

Welcome to the end of time, says the amusingly ruthless narrator of One Day All This Will Be Yours, the brilliant 2021 novella by Adrian Tchaikovsky. Of course, if you were hearing this greeting in person, you wouldn’t have long to live because this sole inhabitant of the end of days and choke-point for time […]

Filed Under: Post-Apocalytic Tagged With: Adrian Tchaikovsky, alternate history, causality, future, time, time travel, utopia, war, world collapse

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