Title: Acadie
Author: Hutchinson, Dave
Published by: Tor.com
Year: 2017
First published: 2017
Date reviewed: 11.17
ISBN: 978-0-7653-9285-3 (e-book, Kindle edition)

The best science fiction is more than just whizz-bang intergalactic travel and weird aliens. It explores the implications of real aspects of human knowledge and poses interesting questions about them. This is what Dave Hutchinson does in “Acadie”, though I can’t tell you what without giving spoilers.

Set a long way into the future and written in a style I recognise from Hutchinson’s Fractured Europe books, this 112-page novella tells an intriguing story and leaves the reader with an unsolved conundrum. There is a resolution that makes sense – to me anyway – but again, no spoilers! This article on where the Acadie of the title comes from may or may not help.

As @CivicLilly1 said on twitter about reading the book “Can’t think of a better way to spend an afternoon”.