Showing posts with label Laurie Penny. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Laurie Penny. Show all posts

Friday, 20 September 2024

Everything Belongs to the Future, by Laurie Penny (Tordotcom) | review by Stephen Theaker

This review originally appeared in TQF65 (December 2019).

Close to the end of the twenty-first century, things don’t seem to have changed a great deal in the UK. The seventeenth Halo game is out, the Mercury Music Prize is still running, and economic inequality is still a serious problem. The one big difference is that those with the necessary wealth or privilege can “fix”: take drugs to stop the progression of ageing.