Tag: speculative fiction
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Robert Merle: The Virility Factor
Literary-prize winning French authors are not afraid of writing speculative fiction. Long before “The Anomaly”, renowned French author Robert Merle had already published several works that could be categorised either as soft SF or speculative fiction, including post-apocalyptic “Malevil,” ethology SF “The Day of the Dolphin,” and dystopian feminist “The Virility Factor.” Categories, as often,…
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Herve Le Tellier: The Anomaly
The Anomaly is a good reminder how artificial genre divisions are. It ticks all the boxes for a thriller: it is a dark, high stakes, suspenseful plot-driven story. It has tonnes of the common tropes: mysterious turbulence, arrogant Pentagon general, inexplicable stranger, nerdish math prodigy, prim FBI agent, double life contract killer. It is a…