Perhaps now, for the first time, he can cohere an authentically human self — but only future tales will tell.
One of my daughter's favorite spreads is at the back of the paperback version of "Hilda and the Troll": a glimpse of Hilda's realistically messy desk and shelves, stocked with Easter eggs from this and future tales, allowing young readers to put a few things together for themselves.
Atwood follows her MaddAddam trilogy with this near-future tale of haves and have-nots, in which a poor young couple sign up for a social experiment – with tempestuous consequences.
EL Doctorow's World's Fair is a story of the past with its eyes on the future, the tale of an unremarkable Bronx schoolboy stumbling towards manhood.
Writer, future cautionary tale.
Today's younger writers came of age reading Enyd Blyton's Famous Five mysteries or Nabil Farouk's fast-paced, if sometimes repetitive sci-fi Future Files tales, published in small, cheaply-produced paperbacks.
Now he has written a novel, Futures, a tale about crime, the financial markets and cocaine dealing, set in 1987 amid the first signs of the City mayhem that would bring such chaos in its wake.
Or rather a blast of raw, percussive white noise that punctuates Legend's future-soul tale of a love "where we both go crazy".
