In A Happy Wife, cracks are appearing in Ivy’s perfect marriage despite the neural implants that promised eternal love.
Tag: speculative
Kill Them with Kindness
An intelligent speculative global-epidemic thriller that blurs the lines between fiction and reality.
Whiteout
Whiteout is a gripping, claustrophobic environmental thriller. Scientist Rachael fights to survive in Antarctica. Is anyone else alive?
An Ethical Guide to Murder
Intriguing speculative fiction: Thea can take life and give it to someone else. Who deserves extended life and who deserves to die sooner?
The Wonder Drug
The Wonder Drug is an absolutely gripping, unputdownable thriller. Michelle races to implicate a pharmaceutical lab before it’s too late.
Briefly Very Beautiful
Briefly Very Beautiful conveys an aching sadness for a lost world, and the exhaustion of daily struggling in a hostile environment.
The Ministry of Time
Secret government mission involving a myopic civil servant, time travellers and a plot to save our future. Gripping and beautifully written.
Toxxic
A matriarchal world damaged by and struggling to move on from its patriarchal, violent past. A moving novel and a painful read.
Shaking Hands With Elvis
An apparently light-hearted novel about assisted dying that feeds into a facile, populist narrative. Scare-mongering.
The Lost Cause
Is the world a lost cause? We should be screaming a warning from the rooftops. I applaud Doctorow for trying.