Reid, Iain
Entry updated 7 November 2022. Tagged: Author.
(1981- ) Canadian author whose novels to date, beginning with I'm Thinking of Ending Things (2016) are horror; that first novel was filmed as I'm Thinking of Ending Things (2020), written and directed by Charlie Kaufman. Fog (2018) strongly evokes Horror in SF through its frame narrative: in the Near Future, a married couple is subjected to increasingly horrific seemingly chthonic emanations after the husband is informed that he may become an astronaut in a mysterious programme, but that his wife will not be left alone. There is a sense that the future will be more than they can bear. We Spread (2022) Equipoisally conjoins an implied Near Future setting in a deeply isolated care home (see Zone) with hints – that might be projections on the part of the distressed inmates – that they are becoming a single Monster. [JC]
Iain Reid
born Ottawa, Ontario: 1981
works (selected)
- I'm Thinking of Ending Things (New York: Simon and Schuster/Scout Press, 2016) [hb/]
- Foe (New York: Simon and Schuster/Scout Press, 2018) [hb/]
- We Spread (New York: Simon and Schuster/Scout Press, 2022) [hb/]
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