Will apes ever be able to clone Shakespeare’s works? What if you came back to Earth from an interstellar trip just to find yourself homeless? Frank Passani’s new fiction book addresses not only orthodox sci-fi subjects but also the dystopian reality humankind is being plunged into. "The Twilight Zone meets science fiction with servings of Kafka: catty appliances, haunted pets, echoes of Bradbury and Matheson amidst futuristic hurtles across the Rin
Melpomene, a professor working in a fictional Singaporean university, devotes herself to writing an erotic novel devoid of literary qualities, as she is convinced of the emptiness of the modern world. Although this gem of expat literature deals with suicide, readers consider it to be “as deep as it is hilarious.” Critics said: “A sensitive flâneur’s existence in Singapore is captured with Kunderaesque asides” (Cyril Wong, Si