Everything Feels Like the End of the World | Else Fitzgerald #AWWshortstories

16 January 202316 January 2023 ~ Brona's Books ~ 10 Comments

We drove home along the forest road, the trees like exposed bones in the headlights, trunks bending in over the gravel track. From the first story in the collection, 'River' Everything Feels Like the End of the World is a speculative fiction short story collection 'exploring possible futures in an Australia not so different from … Continue reading Everything Feels Like the End of the World | Else Fitzgerald #AWWshortstories

Bewilderment | Richard Powers #USAfiction

21 September 202116 November 2022 ~ Brona's Books ~ 13 Comments

But we might never find them? Fermi's Paradox is at the heart of this story. The story goes that in 1950, Italian-American physicist Enrico Fermi, made a passing comment asking 'where are all the aliens?' given the youngish nature of our planetary system and the relative ease of space travel. Fermi was not the first … Continue reading Bewilderment | Richard Powers #USAfiction

People From My Neighbourhood | Hiromi Kawakami #JPNshortstories

26 February 202117 October 2021 ~ Brona's Books ~ 6 Comments

From the best-selling author of Strange Weather in Tokyo comes a collection of playful, delightful, delectable Japanese micro-fiction. Take a story and shrink it. Make it tiny, so small it can fit in the palm of your hand. Carry the story with you everywhere, let it sit with you while you eat, let it watch you while … Continue reading People From My Neighbourhood | Hiromi Kawakami #JPNshortstories

The Animals in That Country | Laura Jean McKay #AWWfiction

12 February 202116 January 2023 ~ Brona's Books ~ 10 Comments

No lights at the row, no TV. The inside of my fridge is warm already in the fuggy night. All over the estate, the sound of the Park’s ute engines charging phones and batteries. I get my Holden going to give my mobile a boost too. What a mad, mad ride Laura Jean McKay takes … Continue reading The Animals in That Country | Laura Jean McKay #AWWfiction

The Plains | Gerald Murnane #AUSfiction

26 November 20179 November 2022 ~ Brona's Books ~ 8 Comments

Well! Gerald Murnane! What on earth am I going to say about you and this amazingly, stupendous, spectacular display of writing? How do you sum up or explain your experience with a book that pushes, exposes and plays around with so many ideas in one compact little piece of speculative writing? Where do you even … Continue reading The Plains | Gerald Murnane #AUSfiction

Children of the New World by Alexander Weinstein

23 February 2017 ~ Brona's Books ~ 2 Comments

Speculative fiction is not usually my cup of tea, but I had heard interesting things about this debut author and his book of short stories.This is part of the rave book blurb from goodreads -AN EXTRAORDINARILY RESONANT AND PROPHETIC COLLECTION OF SPECULATIVE SHORT FICTION FOR OUR TECH-SAVVY ERA BY DEBUT AUTHOR ALEXANDER WEINSTEIN.Children of the … Continue reading Children of the New World by Alexander Weinstein