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Archangels of Evolution

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April 2003, no. 250

All This Is So: A future history by John F. Roe

Wakefield Press, $27.50 pb, 505 pp

Archangels of Evolution

by
April 2003, no. 250

Much science and fantasy fiction is written in a predominantly realist mode. This is the most economical means of signifying the internal truth of its fictional worlds, no matter how strange its aliens, or how superhuman the powers of its heroes. So, for example, Tolkien writes, ‘Holding the hobbits gently but firmly, one in the crook of each arm, Treebeard lifted up first one large foot and then the other; and moved them to the edge of the shelf.’ Whatever his nature – half-Ent, half-tree – Treebeard comfortably occupies the grammatical subject position.

Stephanie Trigg reviews 'All This Is So: A future history' by John F. Roe

All This Is So: A future history

by John F. Roe

Wakefield Press, $27.50 pb, 505 pp

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