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Unnecessary People

Daniel Eilon, 3 May 1984

Unlikely Stories, Mostly 
by Alasdair Gray.
Penguin, 296 pp., £4.95, April 1984, 0 14 006925 9Show More
1982, Janine 
by Alasdair Gray.
Cape, 347 pp., £8.95, April 1984, 0 224 02094 3Show More
Spaceache 
by Snoo Wilson.
Chatto, 160 pp., £7.95, February 1984, 0 7011 2785 6Show More
Scorched Earth 
by Edward Fenton.
Sinclair Browne, 216 pp., £7.95, April 1984, 0 86300 044 4Show More
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“... SEAS, USE UP OUR OWN WASTE, IMPROVE ALL GROUND, NOURISH EDUCATE DELIGHT ALL CHILDREN ... ’ In Snoo Wilson’s parodic SF novel, Spaceache, Chrissie expresses the same blithe confidence in the future: ‘Shopping will be automatically delivered, and you’ll be able to fuck people over the phone ... The whole world will be clean, and they’ll have ...”

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