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by Lachlan Shrives

Week in reverse #1

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In this new linklog series, we’ll be bringing some of the week’s more interesting speculative fiction news to you. No promises on an exhaustive list, we’ll just try our best to pick out some of the more engaging and relevant pieces. Stay tuned for it on Sundays.

–Emily St. John Mandel wins Arthur C. Clarke Award for Science-fiction

–Alternate history comes to the screen with Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell

–Brave New World to be adapted into a mini-series

–Growing divergence between books and series disappoints Game of Thrones’ editor, Jane Johnson

–10 Science Fiction Writers Predict How Our World Will Change In The Next 10 Years

by Lachlan Shrives

Station Eleven crows a victory

post apocLast week saw the announcement of the winner of the Tournament of Books: Station Eleven, by Emily St. John Mandel. In honour of this title, here are a collection of links about Mandel’s book, which has caused waves in the ever-widening pool of post-apocalyptic literature over the last year or so.

–Bustle interviews Emily St. John Mandel, who explains how Shakespeare crosses over into post-apocalyptic sci-fi

–i09 asks Mandel and four other authors why their stories are set beyond the point of mass annihilation

–Mandel explains her vision of the protracted moment of apocalypse to the BBC

–The New York Times review of Station Eleven (slight spoilers)

-A fascination article by The New Yorker about the evolving relationship between genre and literary fiction, with reference to Station Eleven

-An upcoming unique (albeit unrelated) project by a pair of Australian editors to publish an “anthology of apocalypse survival fiction featuring characters with disability and chronic illness”. Sounds interesting!