Adrian Tchaikovsky

“Cage of Souls uses the ‘dying Earth’ trope: we are in the final city on Earth, during what we might term as a slow apocalypse. Everything is dying, everything is running down. There’s still a lot of technology that we would all consider hugely advanced, but he doesn’t explain how any of it works; in fact, the characters don’t know, and that sense of decline is what informs the book. Humanity is dying out. The rest of the planet, however, may not be, not just yet anyhow.” Read more...

The Best Science Fiction of 2020

Tom Hunter, Journalist