COSMOGRAMMA
★★★★☆
RELEASED OUT NOW! 320 pages | Paperback/ebook/ audiobook
Author Courttia Newland
Publisher Canongate
Short stories are a perfect
form for SF. With the hallmarks of genre novels – heavy-duty world-building, elaborate plotting, large casts of characters – stripped back, the spotlight falls instead on the idea: the point of departure between our world and that of the story. This collection from black British novelist/playwright/ screenwriter Courttia Newland (writer of two parts of Steve McQueen’s series Small Axe) offers departures both large and small, from human colonisation of space to the British state being violently hostile to immigrants. (Not much of a departure…)