Firewalkers by Adrian Tchaikovsky
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

For a novella, Adrian Tchaikovsky’s “Firewalkers” contains a whole novel’s worth of ideas as well as a densely imagined world which is wholly original and at the same time completely inevitable. We’re in the endtimes of the climate crisis and the people of the small African town of Ankara Achouka cling to existence in the hottest equatorial climes of a ravaged Earth. The reason the town exists is to service the uber-rich pilgrims who jour...