Check your subscription status, update your details and more. A time traveller must fight for love in Claire North’s As We Fall Through Time, while a single-celled alien is perplexed by Earth’s biology in Annalee Newitz’s A Wall Is Also a Road. Sci-fi columnist Emily H.
Wilson recommends both A slime mould disguised as a human is the hero of Annalee Newitz’s novel This week, I bring before you new works by two of the most interesting writers in science fiction. The first is _As We Fall Through Time_, by the outrageously talented and versatile writer Claire North, which opens on the eve of the French Revolution. He is drawn to Olivier, a young French soldier.
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