Some kind words
Futuredaze hits the streets today and as a nice little release present I stumbled across this review at Tangent.
Reviewer Barbara Melville had some nice things to say about the anthology and my story The Cleansing.
“The Cleansing” by Mark Smith-Briggs is proof you can have YA fiction with deeper themes. Our narrator is waiting for his grandfather to die – not from natural causes – but thanks to a worldwide lottery designed to reduce the population. We're shown how both death and population crises can creep up on us, echoed when the grandfather’s execution is moved forward for no apparent reason. A sharp and heart-wrenching story."
Reviewer Barbara Melville had some nice things to say about the anthology and my story The Cleansing.
“The Cleansing” by Mark Smith-Briggs is proof you can have YA fiction with deeper themes. Our narrator is waiting for his grandfather to die – not from natural causes – but thanks to a worldwide lottery designed to reduce the population. We're shown how both death and population crises can creep up on us, echoed when the grandfather’s execution is moved forward for no apparent reason. A sharp and heart-wrenching story."
posted by Mark Smith-Briggs at 4:34 pm
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