Keith Brooke explores a fractured fictional future Solaris, PPB £7.99 At some unspecified time in the not-too-distant future, for the random mix of reasons that all too often drive history, Europe is fragmenting into progressively smaller national entities – or polities, as Hutchinson labels them in Europe in Autumn. Nations are breaking up into their constituent regions; these regions are splitting into cities and neighbourhoods are declaring their own sovereignty. In this future, even a ...
