Duncan Lawie

Sep 27, 2024 | strangehorizons.com | Catherine Leroux |Duncan Lawie |LeeAnn Perry |Jennifer Mace

A stranger comes to town, and everything changes, including the stranger. It’s an old story. But before that change can happen, we need to know what is. We need to grasp the sense that the characters in this novel don’t feel they can change—or, at the least, that they have insufficient agency in their own lives. This sense of stuckness makes the first section of The Future a frustrating read.