Stillicide
A Novel

Stillicide is a collection of short stories that also relate to a whole, larger narrative. Set in the not-too-distant future, people in Britain struggle to survive as water becomes scarce. They have devised a way of bringing icebergs down from the North to melt and irrigate dry river beds. Terrorist......more

There is a lot going on here that I loved. The imagery, and the flow, and the underlying sense of urgent, life-or-death matters, and the quiet fatalism of this prose all blend together to make this work an entertaining and satisfying read. That should be enough. Some reviewers felt a little adrift g......more

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Um romance fragmentado por curtas histórias, com personagens distintos que, aparentemente, nada têm em comum entre si, mas que nos vão narrando uma história distópica partilhada por todos, através de uma linguagem poética e lírica. ”Uma vez disseste-me que preferias que eu morresse primeiro. Fiquei za......more

Cynan Jones' writing is very spare and very beautiful. But his stories are often quite surface and intangible. Sometimes that works, other times less so. This novel began life as a spoken word production for BBC radio, collecting several stories set in a future (or alternate present) world where wate......more