· Chris Beckett’s novel Two Tribes (Beckett ) contains a more or less naturalistic account of events set in the author’s actual time and place: the book is about class differences in the UK during the Brexit disputes of the late s/5. · The two tribes of his title refer, on a superficial level, to the Leave and Remain Brexit factions; but they also reflect the British world of two centuries later. Here we meet Zoe, a London-based historian who is researching the foundations of her society, using a cache of diaries alongside the rich digital records of the period. · Chris Beckett creates such realistic and compelling settings that his stories flow effortlessly and draw you into their worlds. In ‘Two Tribes’, we follow the lives of middle-class architect and Remainer Harry and of hairdresser, self-proclaimed chav and Leaver, www.doorway.ruted Reading Time: 4 mins.
Chris Beckett. Publisher: Atlantic Books Two Tribes is one of these rare novels that leaves you looking at the world in a new way. * Readers Digest * A disturbing descent into a surreal world, written with a deft hand. * Adrian Tchaikovsky on Beneath the World, a Sea * Beckett is superb at undercutting reader assumptions with a casual line. Chris Beckett is a former university lecturer and social worker living in Cambridge. He is the winner of the Edge Hill Short Fiction Award, , for The Turing Test, the prestigious Arthur C. Clarke Award, , for Dark Eden and was shortlisted for the British Science Fiction Association Novel of the Year Award for Mother of Eden in and for Daughter of Eden in Winner of the Arthur C Clarke award in , Chris Beckett specialises in breathing fresh life into science fiction tropes. In Two Tribes, he presents a dystopian future in which the grim political and ecological landscapes of 23rd-century Britain are shown as logical consequences of what is happening now.
Chris Beckett is a science-fiction writer, and a successful one (his novel Dark Eden, in particular, was very well received and won the Arthur C Clarke award). Two Tribes may be a bit of a departure for him. There’s a sci-fi angle, but it’s very much about the present. In Two Tribes, he presents a dystopian future in which the grim political and ecological landscapes of 23rd-century Britain are shown as logical consequences of what is happening now. Two Tribes. () Chris Beckett, Corvus, £, hrdbk, pp, ISBN As a historian in the bleak, climate-ravaged twenty-third century, it's Zoe's job to record and archive the past, not to recreate it. But when she comes across the diaries of Harry and Michelle, who lived two hundred years ago, she becomes fascinated by the minutiae of their lives and decides to write a novel about them, filling in the gaps with her own imaginings.
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