Bradley, Kaliane
Entry updated 13 May 2024. Tagged: Author.
(? - ) UK author in whose first novel, The Ministry of Time (2024), the extraction of living historical figures via Time Travel has become possible. Commander Graham Gore (1809-1847), of the doomed Franklin Expedition to the Arctic, has been reawoken in a Near Future London beset by Climate Change and other markers of a future radically different from the epistemic triumph of Empire the historical Gore might have anticipated. He is provided with a mentor, and falls in love with her. Not entirely in the flesh at first, he begins to acquire human density – in a quotable phrase, "like a daguerreotype developing" – and settles into edgy Sex with his mentor, though the eponymous government agency soon exposes him to the jagged harshnesses of his new world. [JC]
Kaliane Bradley
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- The Ministry of Time (London: Sceptre, 2024) [hb/]
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