12-14-2021, 01:59 PM
This follows a group of 20 somethings in Georgia as the US crumbles around them. Unlike most apocalyptic fiction, which take place after some cataclysmic event, this one is like the slo-mo cataclysm, and therefore closer to what might happen to us, so that it freaked me out at one point. (It made me think of William Gibsons aphorism that the future is already here, it's just not evenly distributed.) Also different in this one is that the characters keep trying to carry on with a version of their lives - working for money, looking for love. The big wrong note to me was infrastructure collapse preventing most commerce, but a sizeable population still in the city supposedly growing much of their own food. It just didn't seem remotely plausible. Also climate change is only mentioned once or twice in passing. All in all, it was a pretty good read but nothing earth shaking.
The author previously wrote a short story of the same title, and it's the title of a chapter in the middle of the book, which made me wonder if it was then expanded into this book. It was one of the best chapters. Recommended if you want another take on the collapse of civilization.
The author previously wrote a short story of the same title, and it's the title of a chapter in the middle of the book, which made me wonder if it was then expanded into this book. It was one of the best chapters. Recommended if you want another take on the collapse of civilization.
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