Ling Ma’s Bliss Montage and Christopher Priest’s Expect Me Tomorrow use fantasy to address real issues. Will this perspective energise people to do something about the future, asks Sally Adee
Real glaciology is at the core of Christopher Priest’s climate fantasy
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Bliss Montage
IN LING MA’S Bliss Montage, the discomforts that define everyday reality are stretched and deformed until they detonate like a balloon that has been twisted too tightly.
Ma, whose 2018 novel, Severance, won the Kirkus Prize for Fiction, uses short stories to work through the barbed scenarios in her latest book. These include a frenemy so diabolical she can make you disappear, a woman who marries …