Brooks, Sarah
Entry updated 19 August 2024. Tagged: Author, Editor.
(? - ) UK academic, editor and author, a co-editor of Samovar, who began to publish work of genre interest with "The Moon Bears" in Shimmer for September 2013. The titular Travel Guide that conducts her first novel, The Cautious Traveller's Guide to the Wasteland (2024), though deeply unreliable, does provide the sole vade mecum available for train passengers (see Transportation) through an Equipoisally Steampunk Zone here called the Wasteland that, in this mutatingly Alternate World, connects Beijing to Moscow. There are hints that the Wasteland was caused by – or is at the least emblematic of the costs of – Climate Change. The train is as endless as that featured in a film like Snowpiercer (2013), and though significantly less po-faced in its execution than that tale does similarly evoke a sense that its passengers are trapped in a Ship of Fools. One stowaway may be an executant Mysterious Stranger. [JC]
Sarah Dodd
born UK
works
- The Cautious Traveller's Guide to the Wasteland (London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 2024) [pb/]
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