Terence Hawkins – författare

In The Rage of Achilles, Terence Hawkins re-imagines the Iliad as a novel and a Trojan War that really happened. Though he adopts Homer''s characters, those fabled warriors are no more noble than the scared, tired grunts they command, exhausted and bitter after ten years of brutal Bronze Age warfare. And however savage the fighting, over all hangs the terrible truth that the objective of combat is not glory, but the enslavement of the defeated.

This realism extends to the gods themselves. Informed by Julian Jaynes'' groundbreaking theory of the bicameral mind-the basis of HBO''s "Westworld"-The Rage of Achilles takes place in a world in which the modern human consciousness struggles painfully to be born. The gods are only the hallucinations of men and women desperate to be told what to do in a terrifying and confusing world.

Told in taut, elegant prose that captures both the Homeric lyric and military grit, The Rage of Achilles is a fast-moving take on literature''s foundational epic.

A Kirkus Reviews Best Book of 2020

The short stories of Turing''s Graveyard tests the boundaries of science and superstition, reason and faith. They are for readers who can''t wait for the next season of Black Mirror and think the best thing about New Year''s is the Twilight Zone marathon on SyFy. Explore the limits.