Kazuo Ishiguro’s family moved to England in 1960, when he was only six years old. He has said that growing up in England with a Japanese family was ‘crucial to his writing’, and that perspective surely feeds into The Remains of the Day. Though nobody in the novel is Japanese, only someone both in and out of English culture can spear it with the precision he does in the novel.
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Echopraxia is a semi-sequel to Peter Watts’s 2006 novel, Blindsight. The key event that links the two books is the Firefall, an event in the year 2082 – thousands of alien objects called ‘Fireflies’ suddenly appeared in Earth’s atmosphere and burned up instantly. Several years later, a ship called the Theseus was sent to investigate a comet giving off a radio transmission, in the hopes of finding out more of whoever was behind the Firefall. Echopraxia picks up back on Earth some time afterwards, with no word from Theseus.
Paul Tremblay’s The Cabin at the End of the World is a terrible book. By this I don’t mean it’s bad. Far from it – it’s a visceral, intense thrill ride into a true heart of darkness. When I say it’s terrible, I mean in the sense that a storm can be terrible, or a warlord, or a god. I mean that it inspires a frenzied mix of fear and awe, the kind that makes you want to run screaming, but also roots you to the spot, unable to tear your gaze away for even a second.
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