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Future imperfect

THE FUTURE

by Naomi Alderman

(HarperCollins, $35)

“Alderman nails the social media disinformation, surveillance society and environmental crises and the grotesque power of the very rich.

Naomi Alderman is a British novelist and game writer who received a lot of praise for her 2017 novel which won the Women’s Prize for Fiction that year and was then adapted for TV by Amazon.were indeed very good, the middle not so much. And Alderman’s latest offering, suffers from not dissimilar issues in that a good third of it could have been chopped out by a brave editor without affecting it in the slightest.

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