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Last modified on Sat 26 Jun 2021 04.58 EDT In September 2017, David Simon, creator of The Wire, tweeted a photograph of golfers calmly lining up their putts on a Florida course as wildfires raged in the background. “In the pantheon of visual metaphors for America today, this is the money shot,” he wrote of the picture, which was taken by an amateur photographer who spotted the photo-op as she was about to skydive out of a plane. Everything about this story – the image, the circumstances – seems stranger than fiction. A year before Simon’s tweet, in a landmark polemic, The Great De...

Head below for the full list of horror and genre-bending titles heading your way in May! Keep track of all the new SFF releases here. All title summaries are taken and/or summarized from copy provided by the publisher. Note: Release dates are subject to change.   Ariadne—Jennifer Saint (Flatiron) Ariadne, Princess of Crete, grows up greeting the dawn from her beautiful dancing floor and listening to her nursemaid’s stories of gods and heroes. But beneath her golden palace echo the ever-present hoofbeats of her brother, the Minotaur, a monster who demands blood sacrifice. When Theseus, Pr...

The Children of Men, from 1992, shows society’s vulnerability ; the clones created in Kazuo Ishiguro’s The 2010 film adaptation of Kazuo Ishiguro’s Never Let Me Go. Photograph: AP But as a writer of speculative fiction, I never expected to gauge the distance between my novel and the world I was living in. Some things I wrote about, for instance how characters would feel after years of a pandemic, now feel unnerving. I imagined Dawn – a character who rises quickly up the higher ranks of the civil service partly by dint of remaining alive – being excited to travel aga...

The Unity Books bestseller chart for the week ending March 12 Bestseller chart The only published and available best-selling indie book chart in New Zealand is the top 10 sales list recorded every week at Unity Books’ stores in High St, Auckland, and Willis St, Wellington. AUCKLAND 1  Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro (Faber & Faber, $37) New Ishiguro! New Ishiguro! It really should be shouted from the rooftops. (As should the fact that he’s appearing via livestream at the Auckland Writers Festival, in May.) The Nobel Prize and Man Booker winner’s eighth novel is narrated by Klara, a...