I’ve avoided writing about this for at least half a year now, mostly because the subject matter was so emotionally charged that I couldn’t find the guts to open it up. Writing about this back then would have been like rubbing salt on an open wound: there are certain topics where writing helps you put … Continue reading Nature Always Vanishes at Night
Mr Tsakraklides' new novel gives us a clue on what could happen if Mother Nature decides to reclaim what is hers in this exciting eco-thriller. The New Earth is an interesting book and shows that Tsakraklides has talent when it comes to narrating descriptive passages which carry the reader into the near future with spark … Continue reading Book Review for A New Earth – Literary Licence Podcast
Once upon a time in the future, 200 thousand years from now, There was a lonely toilet seat at the bottom of the ocean. It sat there motionless all day, half buried in the sand, As it watched the world go by: The flocks of small fish, the sharks, whales, and seals, All of which … Continue reading To Be Loved
Born inside a paradise full of animals and fruit The Humans started building shelves, And then walls around the shelves. They installed cash registers at the front entrance and started putting price tags on everything. Nothing was free anymore. The Earth became a huge supermarket As everything was stolen and brought inside so it can … Continue reading How To Sell Your Mother
continued from previous “In fact, this wouldn’t surprise me at all. It would perhaps be the missing perspective in our understanding of life, and the way that our genetic code was put together in a disordered, yet purposeful way. All of this time science has been focusing on the sequences within our DNA that have … Continue reading A New Earth – Made out of Chaos
continued from previous She closed the notebook shut with a single, slow but decisive hand movement. She kept on staring at it for a few seconds, almost in a comatose state, as she tried to wake up from her daydream. How could it be that the entire world was sitting inside a notebook, in a … Continue reading A New Earth – Disaster Gene
continued from previous The city had barely lifted itself out of the flood when the rain begun pummeling it down again. Dangerous rivers were forming in the streets once more, teaming up with the grey sky to compose a picture of a post-apocalyptic urban waterworld. But the downpour didn’t stop some of the last remaining … Continue reading A New Earth – The Revelers
An extremely durable exoskeleton that a mutated form of the Humanity species developed. Due to the significant survival advantages that this exoskeleton initially imparted, the mutant was able to quickly expand across the world, colonising new habitats, replacing wild-type humans and threatening the existence of many other life forms. Eventually humanity became trapped inside its … Continue reading Car
It is a river like no other. Traversing the Earth in a straight line, it has no time for twists and turns, no desire to smell the roses along the way. It only cares about transporting its sad, silent load: not fish, not humans, not even water. It is a river of electronics, clothing and every other gadget … Continue reading The Suez Canal
An imaginary friend. A construct of our ego, desperate to believe that someone is watching, someone actually cares about our existence. God is the personification of the real forces of creation: the stardust, the light, the gravity. God is the excuse to sin: it will all be forgiven, because after all, we are His children. … Continue reading God
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