Posted by Matt Farr on April 27, 2011
Dark Futures is a 20-book exploration of the fears of our futures, an odd sub-genre of Science Fiction that draws in on the society of the time and projects it forward, into uncomfortable visions of the world to be. The idea is the same across many books, the results, very different. This week we are coming of age in the post-apocalyptic world, and if that wasn’t enough of a problem, there are mutants too!
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Posted by Matt Farr on April 13, 2011
Dark Futures is a 20-book exploration of the fears of our futures, an odd sub-genre of Science Fiction that draws in on the society of the time and projects it forward, into uncomfortable visions of the world to be. The idea is the same across many books, the results, very different. We’ve had a lot of dystopias so far, so for a change of pace, this time we are talking about an apocalypse…
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Posted by Matt Farr on March 30, 2011
Dark Futures is a 20-book exploration of the fears of our futures, an odd sub-genre of Science Fiction that draws in on the society of the time and projects it forward, into uncomfortable visions of the world to be. The idea is the same across many books, the results, very different. After three books in the UK, we finally move onto American fears…
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Posted by Matt Farr on March 16, 2011
Dark Futures is a 20-book exploration of the fears of our futures, an odd sub-genre of Science Fiction that draws in on the society of the time and projects it forward, into uncomfortable visions of the world to be. The idea is the same across many books, the results, very different. This week we visit probably the most famous future of all…
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Posted by Matt Farr on March 1, 2011
Dark Futures is a 20-book exploration of the fears of our futures, an odd sub-genre of Science Fiction that draws in on the society of the time and projects it forward, into uncomfortable visions of the world to be. The idea is the same across many books, the results, very different. This week we visit one of the first of the “classic” dystopias.
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Posted by Matt Farr on February 16, 2011
Welcome to the World of Tommorrow!
Well, some of them, anyway. Dark Futures is a 20-book exploration of the fears of our futures, a odd sub-genre of Science Fiction that draws in on the society of the time and projects it forward, into uncomfortable visions of the world to be. The idea is the same across many books, the results, very different.
So today we start way back at the dawn of the genre, and head way forward, to the end of humanity.
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Posted by Matt Farr on February 2, 2011
Every year I set myself a reading list – it started as a way of motivation myself, in the midst of parenthood, and work, and everything else that life throws at me, to keep reading, and to keep expanding what I was reading, rather than simply retreading the same patterns as my younger self. Most of this has been reading genres new to me – classics, crime fiction, and last year, Fantasy, which the lovely folks at Geek Syndicate were happy to let me publish on their site under the badly punned title “Tolkien Gestures”.
So this year, there is another list. At times, whilst reading Fantasy, I felt the genre was too vast for a 20 book list that was comprehensive, and so I’ve gone for a tighter subject this time, albeit one that perhaps isn’t a genre in its own right. In fact, it’s the sort of subject matter that straddles the murky line between “proper” literature and genre fiction (an arbitrary distinction at the best of times) and so should be be pretty varied in both its concepts and execution.
So, without further ado, the reading list for “Dark Futures”
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