We’re launching a new feature: a monthly roundup chronicling the best books our stable of bloggers has read over the previous month. Old or new, it doesn’t matter—these are the ones that will stick with us.
In an unnamed Middle Eastern city lies a red light district known as the Budayeen. A place where someone can get anything (or anyone) they want if they know where to look, the Budayeen relies on a complex “family dynamic” that ensures peace between the cops, mob boss Friedlander “Papa” Bey, and various independent movers […]
This weekend, the adaptation of Richard K. Morgan’s Altered Carbon arrives on Netflix, bringing to life a gritty, violent world of cheap death and enforced immortality by way of consciousness-downloading. But once you’ve binged your way through every episode, there’s a high chance that its vibrant, dark world will be hard to leave behind. Luckily, there […]
It’s on-trend for 2017: drawing comparisons between the fictional dystopias we read and the geopolitical situation around us—no sooner does an election tip one way or the other, and someone generates a thinkpiece making comparisons to Orwell and Philip K. Dick. But while many of imagined dystopias come close to the one we all experience every day, […]