An unexpected little ‘miracle’
I just bought one of Cathy Cade’s books on amazon.com, so I thought I’d checkout my own books, as you do… -cough- Well, despite doing no marketing of any sort for a shamefully long time, today was my day for little miracles; I found this fabulous review of The Vintage Egg:
‘MacTrish
5.0 out of 5 stars Short but beautifully formed tales of a future we may be facing Reviewed in the United Kingdom on November 16, 2024
This is a delightful and thought-provoking set of six tales set in a future that has forced mankind to avoid the natural world outside. We know this from the opening line:
”Pop! Pop! Pop!” the child shrieked as he came charging in from the main airlock”.
It isn’t clear what has happened, but there is that overarching sense that it’s what happening to our world now, and its climate, that is leading us to this sterile world of the future where the weather is so violent that animals are bred indoors in manufactories.
The book takes current developments in science and technology and projects them as they might be used for our pleasure, health and nutrition a hundred years from now. I found most of this as disturbing as I suspect the author intended it to be.
It’s a future where people game excessively, kill each other for excitement, and lose the will to live.
But not everyone is like this. The opening story and the final one provide hope that we can learn to work with nature instead of against it.
This little treasure of a book is a wake-up call to all of us.’
I haven’t got a clue who MacTrish is, but if you’re reading this…THANK YOU!
cheers,
Meeks
