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Âé¶¹´«Ã½ recommends: Naomi Alderman's The Future and Doctor Who

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By Alison Flood

10 January 2024

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Ncuti Gatwa (left) in Doctor Who

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I have been reading Naomi Alderman’s , a sci-fi novel that I am now desperate to discuss with other people because I loved it so much.

“On the day the world ended,” it begins, and then we meet tech billionaire Lenk Sketlish, who, in the middle of a meditation session intended to help him deal with his anger issues, receives an alert. It warns him that it is time to hit the prepper bunker he has been spending his fortune on.

Alderman also wrote The Power, a dystopian story…

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