Can empathy survive the next stage of evolution?
Nurtured by the neural networks of a bee, a brain fruit is born. To become a symbiotic trioid and continue the evolutionary crawl upwards they need to combine with an insect bug. And they need to deal with those that would destroy the givers of life.
Stephen Oram’s zoefuturist story explores the fragility of emerging relationships - how we welcome, how we trust and how we keep becoming.
A mind-bending, bio-digital fable that pulses with poetic strangeness. Oram’s Brain Fruit is daring, disorienting, and deeply human.
What did I think?
I'm maybe not sure what I've read or even that I picked up the main message, but I can't stop thinking about Brain Fruit since I turned the final page.
It's a short novella at just 44 pages long but it is definitely mind-bending as the synopsis states and it's incredibly thought-provoking. The writing is extremely lyrical as Stephen Oram draws the reader into the story and I had amazing visualisations of the scenes in my head as I was reading.
For me, Brain Fruit is about how we live and die together, how we destroy the environment through lack of care and knowledge, how we overlook and judge beings on appearance, and (at the risk of sounding like a politician) how we are better and stronger together.
Intelligent, imaginative and peculiar, I enjoyed Brain Fruit and think everyone will get something different out of reading it. It's strange and unusual but it's so beautifully written and completely unforgettable.
I received a gifted hardback to read and review for the blog tour; this is my honest and unbiased opinion.
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Thank you for taking the time to review - appreciated. I'm really pleased that you got so much out of reading it and that you feel everyone will get something different.
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