The upheavals and transformations in the world such as the Russian war on Ukraine, the outbreak of the Corona virus and climate change are driving many readers to science fiction literature, especially corrupt city literature and dystopia that provide pessimistic visions of the future and humanity.
Critics are advised not to rely on epidemic novels to imagine the future, however, as science fiction literature is an exciting world inhabited by alternative facts, a dystopian or bright future, interstellar travel, civilizations and strange beings, robots, and pioneering experiments, and readers are also advised to make their own choices from fiction books. Scientific and his story.
This report presents a proposed set of newly released science fiction novels, the topics of which range from fantasy, war, aliens, threats to technology and other topics of this literary genre of particular interest to young readers.
America and China war
Two former soldiers have written a future-predicting novel, "2034," about an armed (and technological) clash between the United States and China.
It seems that the reality is not far from this fantasy, which imagines that the political and technological conditions lead to the fears of this war, according to the authors.
The novel "2034" talks about an armed and technological clash between the United States and China (Al-Jazeera)
The two authors of the novel have the qualifications to make this story credible. Elliot Ackerman is a writer who has served five times in the Navy in Afghanistan and Iraq.
Its co-author, James Stavridis, is a retired 4-star admiral who commanded a US aircraft carrier with his Naval Battle Group and was NATO's Supreme Commander for 5 years.
The events take place in the year 2034, in which the hostility between the two superpowers has not abated, and the question revolves around whether the world is threatened with falling into the "Thucydides trap", which is the controversial thesis of the American researcher Graham T. Allison, which says that war is inevitable when it challenges an emerging power (such as Athena ) an established power (like Sparta), built by Alison on the idea of the ancient Greek historian Thucydides, who says that war in this case is inevitable.
"We catch the torch"
In the novel "We Hunt the Flame" by the American writer and author of novels for young people, Hafsa Faisal (28 years old), the young writer presents a fictional tale that takes place in the worlds of fantasy, where a hunter named "Zafira" disguises as a man in order to travel to a forest Dangerous Arz, live magical adventures in the epic realms of ancient kingdoms, fairies, magic, myths, death and darkness.
Although the writer is of Sri Lankan origin, she chose the ancient Arabian Peninsula as the scene of the events of her novel, and she came up with the idea of writing the novel after she was well acquainted with the literature of young people, to present later her own and different experience.
The fairy tale takes place in the mythical kingdom of Al-Arawiyah, where war is brewing and a fearsome jungle swallows the earth in the shadows.
The novel gains its literary value from being a construction of a fictional world that corresponds to reality, and carefully placing the dramatic plot within this world drawn with words.
The author says that she considers her novel a political work, and feels "comfortable in blending elements of Islam with fiction, however, I wanted to create a world that shows the Middle East as it is, home to thousands and thousands of people and not the satanic and strange region portrayed by imagination and the media."
The novel "American War"
In this thriller and horror novel, Canadian writer Omar Akkad tells a story set in the near future in an America devastated by climate change and a second civil war over the use of fossil fuels.
Al-Akkad tells the events of the late 21st century in a world torn by climate change, and the protagonist witnesses the killing of his father in an attack by the militias of the North, and he moves to a refugee camp in his childhood, and witnesses the events of 2074 when a bill prohibiting the use of fossil fuels is passed in America, and American states separate from the Union Mexico occupies Texas, while the remaining "Southern Free States" engage in a bitter war.
The novel "American War" by Omar Al-Akkad, whose author recently received the largest Canadian award in the novel (Al-Jazeera)
The protagonist moves from one refugee camp to another before he engages in a guerrilla war and assassinates a great northern general, and is celebrated as a hero by the free southern states, but the northern attack against the southern rebels escalates, and the protagonist is arrested and tortured before being released later and returning to his activity once other.
In the midst of the events, the issue of climate change is brought up. Because of rising sea levels and floods, Florida and other states were inundated, and its entire population migrated, especially on the East Coast, and the capital of the United States was moved.
The Arabian Peninsula becomes too hot and uninhabitable, while severe and widespread floods occur in South Asia.
year of ice
In the novel "The Year of the Ice", the Syrian poet Raed Wahsh presents a mixture that makes his novel take the path of weaving a fantasy tale, based on childish questions sweeping the imagination of its hero, "Spartacus", as he hardly presents a question until he moves to another deeper than him.
The reader of the novel does not soon discover that it is liberating from the dominance of the novelist style, although it wears its form, tools and techniques, but its glare soon fades in favor of an open text that swings between poetry and prose.
The Year of the Ice novel by a monster pioneer presents a fantasy story about Spartacus' questions (communication sites)
The novel takes a dialectical dimension on the tongue of "Spartacus" through political, social, existential and sexual themes, within the framework of a unique Bedouin personality in its fantasies, which seem close to the lived reality because of the qualities and signs it stores, and it talks about absurdity, meaninglessness, emptiness and asylum, as the narrator sometimes paints There are many realistic qualities on this fictional character, who swims in a fantasy that is not bounded by the sky.
But despite the fantasy of Spartacus' questions, they are more realistic and have a close relationship to what the human being is experiencing on an existential basis, not only within the Arab countries, but also within other geographies of the world.
Lambda
David Musgrave's novel "The Lambda" is an experimental presentation of an alternative Britain in the near future, where human beings live next to the "Lampda", a watery people who migrated from the far north, according to a report by the British newspaper "The Times".
When a bomb explodes in a school, a mysterious group of lambda extremists claims responsibility for the attack, but how can a society so weak and seeming indifferent to its exploitation be able to do something so horrific?
The book tells the story of Kara, who is recruited by the police's data monitoring team to track the movements of terrorist groups.
Tensions escalate between the Lambda people and humans after the bombing of the school by the Lambda Revival Army.
But the writer deviates from this plot to explore many details such as a powerful network of servers that achieve shady commercial ends.
Talking about the Lambda is a way in which Musgrave has attempted to raise questions about who we are and what we mean to each other in an age dominated by technology.
In Kara's world, a quantum computer has the power to determine who dies, and as Kara's relationship with the lambdas deepens;
She must decide whether to accept her place in a pattern of technology, violence and deception, or take her own course.
This narrator may be frustrating for those looking for a more plot-focused narrative, but it's a thought-provoking story steeped in dark comedy.
"The Doloriad"
Doloraead is set in a fictional world of injustice and suffering that was portrayed by Missouri Williams in the fictional story of a family living at the end of the world.
In the wake of a mysterious environmental disaster that wiped out the rest of the human race, the head of this family decides to somehow repopulate the planet her post-apocalyptic way, and the biological repercussions of this make getting to know children a difficult task in a brutal world filled with silent forests and dead suburbs.
The tension between the old and new ways of being is then unfolded as a kind of tragedy, and the prose masterfully reflects on a world full of mud and crumbling ruins, a lonely yet grandiose world transformed rapidly through the perspectives of the main characters to create a world like a dream but also material and full of movement.
This brutal novel is not for the faint of heart, but it does provide a fascinating look at the apocalyptic theme familiar in dystopian literature.
"The This"
Veteran sci-fi author Adam Roberts is back with The This, an ambitious novel that realizes the concepts of Hegelian utopia (the understanding of existence as a holistic whole) through a social media platform, where users can remotely communicate with each other in a similar way to Twitter. Virtual hands-free typing.
Through the novel, we freely follow many stories, including the story of the journalist "Rich", who is reluctant to join "This", but is subjected to a vigorous recruitment campaign.
The novel is remarkably easy to read thanks to Roberts' quirky humor and skillful characterization, as well as presenting questions about individuality and belonging and how social media distorts the balance between them.