![]() ![]() Unable to leave and unwilling to stay, Carl struggles to settle in a place that may have saved his life but which feels more like a prison camp than a haven. Inverlair is in a ‘notspot’, a hole in coverage, and Carl finds himself trapped in the village. While there SCOPE, a new communications web, is turned on and whether through design or accident, the resonance causes intense pain, nose bleeds and death. When he receives information and a sample of some new piece of technology, he contrives to get a travel pass from Glasgow and heads to the far north-west corner of Scotland in pursuit of a big scoop. ![]() The government has farmed security out to the private sector who use technology to track and control the population. Living in Glasgow under Fascist state control, Carl is a journalist in a dying industry. ![]() Russell’s Lie of the Land is a welcome and terrifying addition to the conversation. With Dan Grace’s Winter and David Mitchell’s The Bone Clocks showing Scotland and Ireland respectively collapsing in on themselves, Michael F. ![]() Given the state of the country at the moment, it’s perhaps unsurprising that dystopian science fiction is enjoying something of a revival. ![]()
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