Romantic fiction articles
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The Midnight Rose 2024 by Lucinda Riley: Romantic fiction at its most memorable and captivating – book review –
When Lucinda Riley tragically died from cancer in June of 2021, she left behind a dazzling legacy of novels, not least her groundbreaking Seven Sisters series. Her gift was to write adventures transporting readers from the pedestrian realities of everyday life to worlds past and present, and on wild adventures in diverse, exciting and colourful locations. And The Midnight Rose, her enthralling and newly republished 2014 novel, is epic in every sense a vast, multi-layered story which glides from...
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Does science fiction shape the future?
Behind most every tech billionaire is a sci-fi novel they read as a teenager. For Bill Gates it was Stranger in a Strange Land, the 1960s epic detailing the culture clashes that arise when a Martian visits Earth. Google’s Sergey Brin has said it was Neal Stephenson’s Snow Crash, the cyberpunk classic about hackers and computer viruses set in an Orwellian Los Angeles. Jeff Bezos cites Iain M. Banks’ Culture series, which unreel in an utopian society of humanoids and artificial intelligences,...
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Data, Desire, and Where Fiction Goes Next
Rose D’Amora The Nation speaks to Jessi Jezewska Stevens about her new short-story collection, which dramatizes late-capitalist living.