The author of Lake of Darkness, the latest read for the New Scientist Book Club, on why, in a world awash with fictional dystopias, he set out to write the opposite ...

Acres, starring Danielle Deadwyler, doesn’t distinguish itself from the rest of the post-apocalyptic pack.

It hasn’t been all bad news for Hwang, of course. Thanks to the monster suc­cess of Squid Game, he finds himself, in stark contrast to his childhood, comfortably well off.