Nuclear Fiction
D.A.N. Jones, 8 May 1986
A Funny Dirty Little War
by Osvaldo Soriano, translated by Nick Caistor.
Readers International, 108 pp., £7.95, March 1986,0 930523 17 2 Show More
by Osvaldo Soriano, translated by Nick Caistor.
Readers International, 108 pp., £7.95, March 1986,
Tennis and the Masai
by Nicholas Best.
Hutchinson, 176 pp., £8.95, March 1986,0 09 163770 8 Show More
by Nicholas Best.
Hutchinson, 176 pp., £8.95, March 1986,
“... Four of these novels are political, not to be taken lightly. Acts of Faith and The Nuclear Age are concerned with the terror offered to us all by the nuclear deterrent. This is a large theme and it is proper to adopt a grave, tongue-biting tone, as our ancestors did when considering H-11 and the D-v-1. Unlike ‘terrorism’ – which it otherwise somewhat resembles – the nuclear deterrent is presented by state authority as a measure for preserving the great peace: it is customary for state authority thus to associate peace with terror ... ”
