“Battlestar Suburbia” by Chris McCrudden (2018)

“If you took the wrong turning off the A32222 Earth-Mars highway (via Dewsbury) you ended up among the Dolestars.”

I’ve been reading an awful lot of murder mysteries recently, so I thought it might be time to slip into a comedic science fiction hole instead to get as far away from creepy country houses as possible. It can’t be good for the anxiety. I ended up thousands of years in the future where life as we know it has changed immensely.

In the distant future, machines gained sentience and deci...