![]() ![]() Cue a last-minute cryptic message, and Bennett is waking up to what all but the most naive reader already knows: Prospera is not what it seems. That is, until he is tasked with “retiring” his father. After a short break in a luxury clinic, called the Nursery, their memories are wiped and they return in adolescent bodies, ready to start life afresh.īennett’s role as Ferryman is to facilitate this journey – something he does without concern or doubt. At the end of their long, enriching lives, Prosperans undergo a process of “retirement” and “reiteration”. ![]() The rules of this particular paradise are convoluted, but seemingly benign. It is no spoiler to say that a new book by Justin Cronin, creator of the bestselling fantasy horror trilogy The Passage, joins them in the same existential and ontological terrain.įrom the moment we meet Proctor Bennett, living comfortably on the idyllic, secluded island of Prospera, it is obvious that his utopia is about to explode. In this latter category you can find equal room for the gleaming pulp of Logan’s Run, the grime of Soylent Green and the sheer stateliness of Kazuo Ishiguro‘s Never Let Me Go. Elsewhere there are stories in which utopian filters obscure harrowing truths. Then there are the more lucid deceit-fantasies in the vein of Total Recall, Inception and Westworld. Such revelations are the source of paranoid nightmares in works like The Matrix, The Truman Show or William Gibson’s Neuromancer.
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