Chimera (Salt Modern Fiction)

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Set in a not-so-distant future, Alice Thompson's eighth work of fiction, Chimera, is just that: a chimera of a novel. At the surface: Artemis is a part of a space mission to get to a new moon to try and find a bacteria that could help consume the carbon in the air on Earth and re-stabilize the environment.

Science fiction is a genre I read only occasionally and this is an interesting take on the dangers of space exploration.

Synopsis Alice Thompson’s gripping, deep space novel sees scientist and dream investigator Artemis travelling to the distant moon of Oneiros. Burnt Island is steeped in self-awareness, as a book about the process and effect of writing might be. There he encounters bestselling author James Fairfax, whom Max suspects of not being the real author of the book that has made his fortune. Most purchases from business sellers are protected by the Consumer Contract Regulations 2013 which give you the right to cancel the purchase within 14 days after the day you receive the item.

This is a simple yet clever tale, gently satirising literary ambition as it explores the darker sources of inspiration, and told with all the supernatural horror of the best Hammer stories.The case takes Will to brothels, nightclubs and amusement arcades in the Scottish seaside resort of Portobello. The world-building, for example, very tenuous, but also not really doing enough metaphor work to be theme-forward instead. A fortnight ago, in a newspaper article, Naomi Klein charged proponents of Artificial Intelligence with misappropriating terms from psychology and mysticism to give the impression that “they are in the process of birthing an animate intelligence on the cusp of sparking an evolutionary leap for our species”.