Sufficiently Advanced Magic

Guest edited by Vassili Christodoulou

Sufficiently Advanced Magic

From Mary Shelley to Mervyn Peake, British authors have played an outsized role in shaping global Fantasy and Science Fiction. In this guest edition, global majority authors draw on their cultures of origin and on life in Britain today to inject new ideas into the genre.

The woke mind virus

Vassili Christodoulou

"Elon Musk is, in a quite literal sense, the most important sci-fi storyteller on the planet today. And also, I should add, its most important protagonist."

Big school

Chikodili Emelumadu

"One day you will return, and I will explain that love cannot survive trickery. It should only be given freely."

The short history of my mother

Priya Sharma

"There are so many versions of my mother’s life, depending on who she’s telling it to. Now that she’s dying, the tales are so tall they cast backward shadows over the past."

Gabi and Clarice

Polly Ho-Yen

"Clarice had an upturned smile most of the time, but despite the sophistication of her programming, the smile didn’t reach her eyes."

Why can't we see him?

Naomi Ishiguro

"‘Alex,’ Sara hissed through the door, and the sound of the dice stopped immediately, replaced by a silence that reminded her of someone being circled by wasps at an outdoor tea party."

Terrible things are happening to donkeys

Lavie Tidhar

"‘Donkeys first came to England with the Romans. Did you know that?’ Amelia wasn’t sure which of the donkeys had spoken."

Einstein in Peckham

Femi Fadugba

Femi Fadugba's papers on quantum physics are found in the journal that once published Albert Einstein, the inspiration for his novel The Upper World - a science fiction thriller about love, violence and time travel that just happens to take place in Peckham.

Fantasy of Manners

Zen Cho

"The role imperialism played in my life was total. My ancestors would not have come to Malaysia if not for imperialism. I would not be living in the UK if not for imperialism."
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