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From economics, politics and history to science, art, food and, of course, fiction — our annual round-up brings you top titles picked by FT writers and critics
...It became more and more of a struggle, as his fantasy — where he strolled around a sunlit city, followed by adoring subjects — took up more and more of the screen....
...Amplifying all kinds of weirdness, her writing is reminiscent of Helen DeWitt’s fiction, although here the humour is more absurdist....
...science fiction and imagery of African resistance, to create strange time-defying narratives....
...These will not necessarily be the jobs of science fiction....
...Parashuram’s story is one of many here that have been translated into film, adapted by the Oscar-winning director Satyajit Ray — himself a masterful short story writer also represented in the book....
...Everything Fairly has written could well be some piece of ephemeral online fiction, but Rowena finds parallels with her own life, and the narrative becomes a source of consolation as well as fascination....
...The writer moved to the State University of New York at Buffalo in 1965, amid the tumult of “America’s High Sixties”, where, he later recalled, “artistic experiment was in the air”....
...On the cover was Isaac Asimov, one of science fiction’s most famous authors. Surely, this was no coincidence....
...Generation starships — which undertake interstellar voyages across distances so vast that people can be born, live their whole lives and die during the journey — have long been a staple of science fiction...
...Luda by Grant Morrison (Europa Editions) Comics writer Morrison’s debut prose offering traces the attraction and antagonism between an ageing drag artist and her youthful rival in a hedonistic, phantasmagorical...
...Since the fatwa, Rushdie has fought fiercely to keep hold of his identity as a writer, not some “strange fish” cursed or revered for “the mishaps of my life”....
...As with any science fiction, the world they create is interesting for its quirky imagination of the future....
...The writer is a science commentator As soon as the White House press conference was over, the panic began....
...Only for books, especially fiction, does the presumption of the lone genius hang on. That might have surprised Shakespeare, who co-wrote some of his plays and adapted many from other writers’ work....
...Some of the novel’s themes — childhood legacies, the power of language, the temptations of auto-fiction — echo those prominent in You, Bleeding Childhood (2023), a collection of short stories, also translated...
...Henry WessellsAuthor, ‘A Conversation Larger Than the Universe: Readings in Science Fiction and the Fantastic 1762–2017’Upper Montclair, NJ, US...
...She is convinced, however, of the truth that lies at the centre of this story: “In all of us there’s darkness and fantasies of violence and revenge,” she says....
...A “meticulously researched, thrillingly told” account of a devastating wildfire in Canada has won this year’s Baillie Gifford prize, the UK’s leading award for non-fiction....
...Science writer Highfield and computer scientist Coveney show in vivid examples how medical researchers are creating digital twins of individual patients and then using these virtual humans to guide treatments...
...Will they read it like [we read] the Austro-Hungarian writers, Zweig, Musil and Joseph Roth, with this nostalgia of a world that is gone?...
...The writer is president of the Royal Society Science is increasingly central to our lives — from its role in creating day-to-day objects such as the smartphones in our pockets, to the big challenges of...
...Coming in at almost 600 pages, this is not a book to be rushed, though, and is a saga in the truest sense of the word — a blend of romance, historical, war and thriller fiction....
...Black River by Nilanjana Roy (Pushkin Press)A work of literary fiction with a granular, compassionate outlook by the Delhi-based FT columnist....
...Chinese writer Liu Cixin’s marvellous work of science fiction, Three Body Problem, released in English almost a decade ago, is itself the winner of a Hugo Award but — from the struggle of the heroic Earth...
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