Gender critical novelist urges writers to reenter prize they boycotted and may ask judges not to shortlist his novella The gender critical Irish novelist John Boyne has said he has been brought “very close to the edge” by the backlash to his inclusion on the longlist for a literary prize for LGBTQ+ authors. Ten authors and two judges withdrew from the Polari prize and more than 800 writers and publishing industry workers signed a petition calling on Polari to remove Boyne’s novella Earth from its longlist. Continue reading...

On connaissait le cyberpunk, ce futur désabusé rongé par les mégacorpos, la technologie invasive et l’effondrement du lien social. On avait vu surgir avec intérêt le solarpunk, tout en végétal, en …