Shand, Daniel
Entry updated 12 May 2025. 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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