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DNF. It's saturated with piety, self-importance, and an obsession with the current ills that obsess terminally online college-educated people all over the U.S. The ideas in it may have gestated before the pandemic, but it's been edited into a sour, depressive, hectoring book. I love good genre fiction, but this has all of the problems of bad sci-fi (endless explanations of scientific terms and gear, flat characters serving some larger narrative) and all of the problems of modern "realist" novels
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Clever--but eerie and haunting--commentary on death and the grief that follows.
This science fiction novel opens in 2030 and ends six thousand centuries—yes, centuries—in the future. The characters in each of the fourteen chapters are loosely linked to each other by the Arctic Plague, a pandemic caused by a virus emitted when melting permafrost revealed the ancient body of a young girl. Fans of Star Trek and other cosmic-related studies are sure to appreciate Nagamatsu's exploration of the future ...more
This science fiction novel opens in 2030 and ends six thousand centuries—yes, centuries—in the future. The characters in each of the fourteen chapters are loosely linked to each other by the Arctic Plague, a pandemic caused by a virus emitted when melting permafrost revealed the ancient body of a young girl. Fans of Star Trek and other cosmic-related studies are sure to appreciate Nagamatsu's exploration of the future ...more
Talking pigs? Robot dogs? Euthanasia amusement parks? Not to mention the parallels of just coming out of a pandemic.
Sequoia Nagamatsu does a wonderful job weaving an intricate story of grief, loss, and survivors. Each chapter is from a different person’s point of view. You feel the helplessness of each individual. It was heavy and difficult to read at times, but I also could not put it down. This book makes you think and will stick with you for a while. I was troubled. I felt the loss. But I al ...more
Sequoia Nagamatsu does a wonderful job weaving an intricate story of grief, loss, and survivors. Each chapter is from a different person’s point of view. You feel the helplessness of each individual. It was heavy and difficult to read at times, but I also could not put it down. This book makes you think and will stick with you for a while. I was troubled. I felt the loss. But I al ...more
Pandemic future sci-fi stuff, but far beyond, and told by several thematically intertwined narrators, which worked for me.
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