Aristide, Oana
Entry updated 13 January 2025. Tagged: Author.
(? - ) Romanian economist, hotelier and author, variously resident in Sweden, UK and Greece. Her first novel, Under the Blue (2021), is set initially in a very Near Future England beset by Climate Change and a Pandemic; the protagonist of the tale, in the company of two women, leaves beleaguered rural Devon for Africa, via a depopulated Europe. These events seem to have been predicted a few years earlier, at a research establishment within the Arctic Circle, through conversations between scientists and an evolving AI designed to train the latter to make accurate Predictions about future Disasters. There is some sense between the lines that it may be easier to predict disasters – like pandemics – than to persuade the governments of the world to respond until too late. [JC]
Oana Aristide
born Transylvania, Romania
works
- Under the Blue (London: Serpent's Tail, 2021) [hb/Steve Panton]
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