Borne by Jeff Vandermeer

Borne by Jeff Vandermeer

In his book The Great Derangement, Amitav Ghosh writes that we’re suffering from a crisis of imagination. In their attachment to the Cartesian worldview that arrogates all intelligence to humans and denies agency to the non-human, artists and writers have failed to...
Landscape Of Dreams: Metronome by Oliver Langmead

Landscape Of Dreams: Metronome by Oliver Langmead

Worldbuilding can be a dull affair. An attempt to survey a place that isn’t there can often result in writing that isn’t readable. For M. John Harrison [1], a work of fiction relying on worldbuilding does not invite readers to the text with the idea that reading is a...