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BOOK REVIEW: Sagramanda by Alan Dean Foster
Sagramanda: A Novel of Near-Future India by Alan Dean Foster
Pyr Books, 2008, 290pp, $25, ISBN 1-59102-488-9
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In the Indian city of Sagramanda, a scientist, Taneer, steals secrets from the multi-national biotech company he worked for and goes on the run, trying to find a buyer for what he has stolen at the same time as avoiding the inevitable retribution.
There seems to be an increasing number of science fiction novels by western writers set in non-western locales; Jon Courtenay Grimwood’s Arabesk books and Ian McDonald’s River of Gods are obvious examples. As the economic future of humanity seems to be moving ever more in that direction, it seems inevitable that more sf is being set in the emerging nations. This brings its own dangers for western writers as they attempt to reflect the cultures of these countries in a way which neither patronises nor demonises them, but which simultaneously remains honest about their issues. Continue reading BOOK REVIEW: Sagramanda by Alan Dean Foster
Time – Part 2
Does Not Equal is a webcomic by Sarah Ennals – check out the archives, or see Time, Part 1 from last week.
Time – part 1
Does Not Equal is a webcomic by Sarah Ennals – check out the archives. Part 2 next Sunday!
All mediums are equal – an end to science fiction tribalism
Another month, another inadequate pay-cheque. More empty days and suffocating nights alleviated only by cheap hooch, regrettable takeaways and the occasional all-too-brief orgasm. This is your life… and this is the return of Blasphemous Geometries.
The critical language of science fiction is balkanised according to the media form which the work being discussed belongs. Jonathan McCalmont suggests it is the critic’s place to encourage a merging of genre’s disparate media tribes. Continue reading All mediums are equal – an end to science fiction tribalism