![]() Here, then, are books full of dueling paradigms, uncertain and chancy remembrance - with the past looming both as a resource and as a nightmare, and the future at its mercy.Īdrian Tchaikovsky is the author of over 20 novels, but somehow ELDER RACE (Tordotcom, 201 pp., paper, $14.99) is the first of his I’ve read. But when disaster is near-universal and the gulf of disagreement vast, it’s easy to question our own recollections as suspect. We know we all remember things a little differently, with reality fracturing into competing narratives the further we get from any given occurrence. Most people I know have complained about memory problems, provoked by difficult times and traumatic events, and compounded by the redactions and distortions of social media. ![]() ![]() The year’s nearly over, and it’s hard to remember where it went. ![]()
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