![]() All of her novels have been broadcast on BBC Radio 4s Book at Bedtime. In 2006 she won the Orange Award for New Writers and in 2007 she was named Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year, as well as being selected as one of Waterstones 25 Writers for the Future. Although we are undoubtedly too wise and/or jaded now to believe in the kinds of women-led utopias depicted in such feminist classics as Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s Herland or Marge Piercy’s Woman on the Edge of Time, The Power felt as though it skipped too quickly over the possibilities for difference, let alone betterment, and slid straight into a repeat of all the problems we have now, just sex-swapped. In this stunning bestseller that inspired the Amazon Prime series, praised as our eras Handmaids Tale, a fierce new power has emerged-and only women. Naomi Alderman is the author of four novels. Naomi Alderman The Power Paperback Maby Naomi Alderman (Author) 16,605 ratings Editors' pick Best Science Fiction & Fantasy See all formats and editions Kindle 11.99 Read with Our Free App Audiobook 0.00 Free with your Audible trial Hardcover 24.89 132 Used from 1.80 10 New from 15.35 1 Collectible from 175. If there was a flaw in the book it was that – to use a literary term – things went to shit too quickly. ‘The Power’ Review: Toni Collette and John Leguizamo in an Amazon Sci-Fi Thriller Full of Untapped Potential. ![]() It doesn’t work quite so well on screen, where it feels like we are hopping endlessly about but, given that we don’t get to grips with what is going on until the third episode, moving ponderously slowly towards each revelation at the same time. There is time and detail enough to let the reader invest in each one. In the book, this large cast is masterfully assembled and controlled by Alderman. ![]()
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