Larissa Lai’s “Rachel” and Cyborg Identity

Posted by Augur Blog
On May 17, 2019

By Ben Berman Ghan Larissa Lai’s short story “Rachel” is a brilliant blended retelling of both Philip K. Dick’s Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep (1968) and Ridley Scott’s film adaptation Blade Runner (1982). It operates as a sort of mutated replicant text of its source material, becoming what post-humanist Donna Haraway, whom Lai quotes […]

Best Books We Read in 2018

Posted by Augur Blog
On December 21, 2018

When the Augur team is not reading submissions, we read books and here is a roundup of our favourites from 2018. Get your TBR ready. Friday Black by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah Friday Black, the debut book by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, is one of the best contemporary short fiction collections I’ve read in a very long time. […]

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