![]() ![]() Two Near Future stories, featuring the same two characters, frame the rest. Not the End of the World (coll of linked stories 2002) comprises a series of Twice Told tales, in which contemporary characters literally or by analogy replay material out of Greek mythology and Ovid, the main engine of the stories being metamorphoses, some actual. Human Croquet ( 1997) encloses a family-bound Timeslip narrative within a narrative of life on this planet, from its inception to Near Future decline and termination. ![]() Three texts are genuine examples of twenty-first century Fantastika, and are all – despite their popularity with her large audience – corrosive of "normal" readership expectations. ![]() They are listed below for their borderline interest. The Jackson Brodie books, featuring a retired detective, very nearly however demolish the claim to realism through their witty recourse to cascades of coincidence and narrative sequences that mock plausibility. (1951- ) UK author, long resident in Scotland, whose novels have consistently engaged in postmodern plays with fictionality, though not in her early work with any sustained intent at undermining the non-fantastic modes she has occupied, which include the family history and the crime novel. ![]()
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