Reed, Joe Mungo
Entry updated 8 September 2025. Tagged: Author.
(? - ) UK author, currently resident in Scotland, whose third novel Terrestrial History (2025) verges on Future History in its depiction, over a century or so, of humanity's attempts at species salvation through the settling of Mars. The telling is intimate rather than epic, through four generations of a family, beginning in the very Near Future with Hannah, obliteratingly obsessed with her potential Invention of a technique to harness nuclear fusion in collaboration with a Mysterious Stranger who has arrived by Time Travel to help her save his world; their efforts intersect with the plans of a billionaire monomaniacally focused on his story of the future he will make. The cost of his success, given the unrelenting pressure of Climate Change, may not transform the human species or its abodes for the good. [JC]
Joe Mungo Reed
born London
works (selected)
- Terrestrial History (New York: W W Norton and Company, 2025) [hb/]
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