![]() Instead, the Ark’s remit is much more banal and more heroic – the team works on a frigid Svalbard despite having no chance of survival and no belief in a legacy beyond the Ark. Nor is there any breathless Hollywood-style race-against-time to save the planet. There’s no mavericks or geniuses who just might hold the key to halting catastrophe. In an interesting take on the end-of-the-world plot, Ark’s scientists aren’t the ones to discover an unstoppable, apocalyptic asteroid on a collision course with Earth, known as Finis. Meditation on the transient nature of life. Important and who gets to decide this allows the story to unspool into an elegant The notion of preserving the important things, why they’re Samples for Ark Flora, an archive of all important plant life on Earth, in a ![]() Roth’s short story follows a group of scientists collating ![]() To be found in facing the end of the world. Speculative science-fiction, Ark eschews thrills and spectacle for the tiny details Whatever your feelings on Amazon’s place in publishing and the impact on smaller houses and writers, on the strength of Ark, Forward’s a project worth looking into for both the casual reader and fans of the genre.Ī self-contained, melancholic and grown-up bit of ![]() Ark by novelist Veronica Roth forms part of Forward, a new collection of sci-fi shorts commissioned by Amazon. ![]()
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