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Speculative Fiction


  • A Godlike Science

    A Godlike Science

    Is there something missing from Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein? One would think that an author’s say over her work’s substance would be final. Yet the novel’s prolific adaptations seem obsessed with filling in the gory details that Shelley avoids. The latest such homage, Frankenstein, by Dave Morris and inkle Studios, reworks Shelley’s text as an interactive…

  • Feeling like a Stoic: Doris Lessing’s Experimental Fiction

    Feeling like a Stoic: Doris Lessing’s Experimental Fiction

    I came late to Doris Lessing. Although it was back in 1962 that The Golden Notebook established her as the Cassandra of a not-quite-revolutionary generation, I clued …