![]() The Mercer Corporation controls most of space. That’s exactly what Once & Future, the first installment in a new duology co-written by partners Cori McCarthy ( The Color of Rain, Now A Major Motion Picture) and Amy Rose Capetta ( Echo After Echo, The Brilliant Death), does with its Arthurian retelling. And I can’t recall ever before seeing an Arthur story in a science fictional universe that saw your spaceships and interstellar corporations, and raised you Excalibur, magic, reincarnation, and fate. I’ve seldom seen an unapologetically Arthurian story – with an Arthur, a Merlin, and a Guinevere, all called by their Arthurian names or a very close analogue and occupying Arthurian roles – set in an unapologetically science fictional universe, though. ![]() Like Shakespeare, the Matter of Britain and the Arthurian mythos is a vein that speculative fiction has delved deeply into over the years – it could be said, too deeply. ![]() Once & Future, Amy Rose Capetta & Cori McCarthy ( Jimmy Patterson 978-7-1, $18.99, 336pp, hc) March 2019. ![]()
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