Dansk Science Fiction mellem 2004 og 2007
Janus Andersen har her i begyndelsen af 2008 skrevet en artikel til sifi sitet The Science Fact & Science Fiction Concatenation, hvori han bl.a. nævner min roman Den elektriske nattergal.
“Another example of a book that successfully blurs out the borders between what’s real and what’s speculation is Søren Toft’s Den Elektriske nattergal [The Electrical Nightingale] (2006), a modern retelling of Hans Christian Andersen’s fairy tale about the nightingale.
In it, a young man find a beautiful artificial nightingale which he brings home to his girlfriend who is an engineer. She repairs the bird and disappears soon after, hunting the secrets of that beautiful piece of technology. Like Adolphsen, Toft reaches for the perfect illusion - the technology is believable and the story takes place not in the future but in recent history, during a storm that hit Denmark in the late nineties. This allows Tofts to speak directly to a mainstream audience while doing exactly what SF does so well - talking about mankind and our relationship with our environment, in this case technology. It’s a good story where the speculative element manages to knock reality just a little off kilter.”
/Søren Toft