David Mitchell’s new novel may turn out to be science fiction after all
After David Mitchell ’s brilliant Cloud Atlas admit science fable in its genre mash - up , we were sad to learn his new script was straight - up litfic . But turns out it ’s the first intensity of a trilogy … that will deform very scientific discipline fictional . Mitchell was in New York to promote his unexampled novel , The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet , and someone asked about the novel ’s villain , an abbott who it ’s hinted has been alive for 600 twelvemonth ....