--- Sally Adee, in a review of Aliya Whiteley's From the Neck Up, New Scientist, 27 October 2021
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For many of us, ageing is both science fiction (something that will happen in a future too distant to care about) and gothic horror (it’s coming, and it will be awful).
In this way, old age is a little like obscenity: impossible to define, but you know it when you see it, and then you want to look away.
... Whiteley’s worlds may be icy and gothic, but the people in them are altogether human, and their funny and cantankerous inner lives make them good company. You will miss these grumpy old people: they’re getting too old for this shit, but so, I would wager, are you.
