The Fourfold Library is our mythical archive from which authors select a work of science fiction – it can be from any period, language or medium – which has inspired and informed their own practice. The authors reflect on their chosen text, its influence, and their own writing in response to its affect.

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Past and current selections have included:

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No. 120: Rjurik Davidson – Robert Silverberg, Downward to the Earth
No. 123: Una McCormack – Sylvia Engdahl, Enchantress from the Stars and The Far Side of Evil
No. 124: Zoran Živković – Arthur C. Clarke, Childhood’s End
No. 125: Peter Higgins – Gene Wolfe, The Book of the New Sun
No. 127: Claude Lalumière – J.G. Ballard, Vermilion Sands
No. 128: Matthew De Abaitua – Alan Moore and Ian Gibson, The Ballad of Halo Jones
No. 130: Anne Charnock – Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale
No. 131: Nina Allan – Keith Roberts, Pavane

No. 134: Sam J. Miller - Avatar: The Last Airbender

No. 135: Adam Roberts - Herge, L'Etoile mysterieuse [The Shooting Star]

No. 136: Geoff Ryman - Thomas Burnett Swann, 'The Manor of Roses'

No. 137: Andreas Eschbach - Perry Rhodan (various authors)

No. 138: Emmi Itaranta - Philip Pullman, His Dark Materials

No. 139: Vandana Singh - Ursula Le Guin, The Dispossessed and Premchand, Mansarovar

No. 140: Larissa Lai - Octavia Butler, Xenogenesis / Lilith's Brood

No. 142: Christopher Priest - John Wyndham, The Day of the Triffids

No. 146: Aliya Whiteley - Alfred Bester, The Demolished Man

No. 147: Abi Curtis - Ted Chiang, 'Story of Your Life' and Denis Villeneuve, dir. Arrival

No. 148: Justina Robson - Iain M. Banks, Consider Phlebas

No. 149: Garry Kilworth - Julio Cortazar, selected stories

No. 150: Gwyneth Jones - Alfred Bester, Tiger! Tiger! and Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo

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