The future and life in it are fascinating for all readers, and writers show their artistic talent by sharing their vision of the future in their works. In this showcase of future life, what holds a reader's interest is the ingredients an author uses to create a new mixture. In his “Complete Darkness,” Matt Adcock uses a unique style of writing with an appropriate fusion of oxymoronic elements and has the readers in the grip of the text from the beginning.
The title gives a minor hint of the content that is to follow, but Tom Wade’s foreword gives the readers a fair idea of “Complete Darkness” being a product of the meditative musings of Adcock and not something created out of thin air. Broadly, the book can be classified in the category of science fiction, but other than that, there is the presence of constituents like dystopia, biblical references, and vision of the future. The presence of the theological aspect is fascinating, which literally goes hand in hand with the science fiction background that the author keeps. This gives an introduction to the insightfulness of Adcock’s artistic side and his ability to control the complexities of two opposite subjects balanced and doing justice to both. At the same time, the dystopian component seems to be a step ahead of the Orwellian idea where Adcock bears the influence of the technological boom and the awareness of rapidly changing human lives.
The presence of footnotes in “Complete Darkness” gives the book further depth and gives the readers an understanding of how well researched the novel is. In addition to science-fiction and dystopian literature lovers, Adcock's action-packed work is recommended to all those readers who like to be on their toes and getting surprised by the twists a text can bring anytime.
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