John Twelve Hawks caught my attention with the impressive Fourth Realm trilogy. Whilst Certainty does not reach those heights it offers a tight plot line giving a linear journey into a child’s eye world of the near future.
Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro. A dystopian reflection on love, life and friendships with a slightly haunting ending.
Movie Review: 28 Years Later - more family values than zombies.
Tim Winton's Juice is intended to be an exploration of the complexities of human relationships through the lens of a climate catastrophe.
Helen Phillips's novel "Hum" examines the nuanced intersection of artificial intelligence and domestic life through the lens of a contemporary family.
Afterworld: Flawed AI in a real world reboot. Debbie Urbanski’s debut science fiction novel looks at the what if humanity had to reboot.
Godzilla Minus One - more than just the monster. It struck me as an apocalyptic creation of the mind of post World War Two Japan in an economic mess.
Cixin Liu’s The Three-Body Problem poses existential questions about contact with alien life form but ultimately the hard sci gets in the way of a good story.
Metro 2003, by Dmitry Glukhosky, is about going underground in Moscow. The claustrophic landscape is filled with the dark and the dirt of the campsites and the fear of the murderous creatures in the dark down the tunnel. Each station brings its own philosophical tale.
Intrusion is a meditation on a near future where life is regulated with a high level of morality and ethics. Extrapolated ideas on what that may look like a quite restrained with the occasional AI toy and truck. The main…
