Love this piece by Damien Walter in the Guardian on Science Fiction’s five best guides to the present:
‘SF is not great at foretelling tomorrow’s world, but it brings today’s into clearer focus than anything else‘ More
Links to these fantastic authors and their books if you’d like to borrow them from Leeds Libraries
George Orwell 1984
Aldous Huxley – Brave New World
Margaret Attwood – The Handmaid’s Tale
Frederik Pohl and Cyril M Kornbluth – The Space Merchants
Octavia E Butler Patternist novels
Alfred Bester The demolished man
Audrey Niffeneger – Time traveller’s wife
M John Harrison Kefahuchi Tracttrilogy
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