70,000 settlers from the US and elsewhere have travelled to Siberia to make that most inhospitable of places their home. As climate change had made the summers longer and the winters milder, it seemed a smart alternative to the old, crowded, decaying cities.
Yet this new dawn is more like a throwback sunset: in the face of disaster, civilisation’s fragile attempts to build cities collapse into slave camps, frontier-style lawlessness and brutality.
Far North is that unusual thing, a work of literary science fiction. It is The Handmaid’s Tale meets Huckleberry Finn and High Plains Drifter. This…
