River Called Time News Today

Poet, playwright and author Joelle Taylor picks five of the most inventive examples of speculative fiction.

Deep Wheel Orcadia, set on a distant space station struggling for survival, is praised by judges for ‘making you rethink what science fiction can do’

This year's Arthur C. Clarke Award ceremony will take place at the Science Museum this October and the shortlist has been announced.

Our writers pick out their favourite reads of the past year, including novels from Jenni Fagan, Torrey Peters, Megan Nolan and Alison Rumfitt.

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The books we love coming out this week include new titles by Melodie Winawer, Keith Ryan Cartwright, and Jeremy Dauber.

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Security consultant “Jane Smith” receives an envelope with a key to a storage unit that holds a taxidermied hummingbird and clues leading her to a taxidermied salamander. Silvina, the dead woman who left the note, is a reputed ecoterrorist and the daughter of an Argentine industrialist. By taking the hummingbird from the storage unit, Jane sets in motion a series of events that quickly spin beyond her control. Soon, Jane and her family are in danger, with few allies to help her make sense o...

If the novel’s composition matched the author’s conception, Courttia Newland’s A River Called Time would constitute a major accomplishment in speculative fiction. Newland creates a radically different Earth, devises a complex world-beyond-the-world of astral projection, and then, in the novel’s second half, sends his overwhelmed protagonist on an odyssey into further worlds.  What might our world look like if humanity were innocent of some of its foundational crimes? A River Called T...

The Ark was built to save the lives of the many, but rapidly became a refuge for the elite, the entrance closed without warning… We’re thrilled to share an excerpt from Courttia Newland’s A River Called Time, a story of love, loyalty, politics, and conscience, set in parallel Londons—publishing April 6th with Akashic Books. The Ark was built to save the lives of the many, but rapidly became a refuge for the elite, the entrance closed without warning. Years after the Ark was cut off fr...