Shand, Daniel
Entry updated 12 September 2022. Tagged: Author.
(1989- ) Scottish teacher and author in whose first novel, Fallow (2016), two brothers embark on a hegira through Scotland, with a picaresque shaping to the tale that evokes the supernatural. He is of sf interest for his third novel, Model Citizens (2022), set in a Near Future world where the growing stresses facing Homo sapiens are, perhaps, solved by the issuing/creating of Clone companions, who are designed to earth the intolerable . Not perhaps as poignantly as the Android protagonist of Kazuo Ishiguro's Klara and the Sun (2020), the protagonist's clone, known as a junior, endures stress that it may be no model can ultimately bear. [JC]
Daniel Shand
born Kircaldy, Fife, Scotland: 1989
works
- Fallow (Dingwall, Ross-shire, Scotland: Sandstone Press, 2016) [pb/Jason Anscombe]
- Crocodile (Dingwall, Ross-shire, Scotland: Sandstone Press, 2018) [pb/Stuart Brill]
- Model Citizens (London: Corsair, 2022) [hb/Matt Burne]
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