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Bernard Beckett and Xiaolu Guo talk to Stephanie Merritt
Story: Futures
Hay Festival 2009,
Beckett’s Genesis creates a world where just what it means to be human is up for debate. Guo’s bracingly funny dystopia UFO in Her Eyes, a startling parable of change, imagines an uneasy future for rural China.